Night Mare
novel 1982 Xanth
Record
| First published | 1982 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | |
| Reader rating | 3.86 (18,949 ratings, collected 2026-08-25) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345354938 |
| Internal chronology | 6 |
Synopsis
Xanth faces a threatened invasion from the non-magical realm of Mundania, and a night mare named Imbri is sent from the dream realm with a cryptic warning she must deliver to Xanth's leaders while evading a mysterious pursuer.
Where it sits
- Universe: Xanth
- Series: Xanth, the expanded sequence (books 4-18) ; position 3 of 15 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Piers Anthony
Notes
- From the series record (Xanth, the expanded sequence (books 4-18)): Books 4 through 18 of Piers Anthony's Xanth sequence (1981-1994), catalogued as Expanded Canon; Core Canon remains just the original trilogy (1977-1979). The full sequence (through book 49) was completed in a later pass, 2026-08-21.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Xanth, the expanded sequence (books 4-18): position 3 of 15: previous Ogre, Ogre (1982) · next Dragon on a Pedestal (1983)
- Internal chronology, within Xanth: position 6 of 33: previous Ogre, Ogre (1982) · next Dragon on a Pedestal (1983)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Xanth
- Order of Books: Xanth
- FantasticFiction: Piers Anthony / Xanth
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Mare
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