'Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising
ape.''Twas the night before Hogswatch and all through the house . . . something was
missing.Superstition makes things work in the Discworld and undermining it can have
consequences. When Death realizes that belief in the Hogfather is dangerously low he decides
to take on the job. But it's just not right to find a seven-foot skeleton creeping down your
chimney and trying to say 'ho ho ho'.It's the last night of the year the time is turning
and if Susan gothic governess and Death's granddaughter doesn't sort everything out by
morning there won't be a morning. Ever again . . .'Has the energy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland' Sunday TimesHogfather is the fourth
book in the Death series but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.