A collection of comic tales published pseudonymously in the 1970s and 80s is slight, but shows sparks of the brilliance to come
here’s a kind of grim joke in this title. When, in 2007, Terry Pratchett experienced the first symptoms of the posterior cortical atrophy that went on to kill him, his doctors said he had had a minor stroke. He hadn’t. What he had was much more severe. But he continued writing, releasing four more Discworld novels between 2008 and when he died in 2015. He left behind three completed novels: the final Discworld book,There was, he insisted, nothing more.
Most of the pieces riff on a ludicrous situation – comical cave people, a haunted steamroller, a hundred-yard pie A quarter of the stories are Christmas squibs: a pastiche Scrooge piece, a couple of comic modernisations of festive standards, and two stories about Father Christmas quitting his job. The better of these, Wanted: A Fat Jolly Man with a Red Woolly Hat, contains the story germ of the marvellous Mort, the 1987 Discworld novel in which Death resigns his position.
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