Here, Death has to step in and pretend to be the Santa Claus equivalent in order to ensure that life goes on. The basic story is a delightfully dark Christmas tale about the manipulation of belief featuring an insane assassin who has planned how to kill every fairytale and god. We’re also reunited with his grand-daughter Susan (currently acting as a governess and desperately trying not to turn into Mary Poppins), and the old enemy the Auditors (who still think humanity is messy and the world would be neater if everything just stopped existing). Yes, it’s a Discworld novel, buried midway through the series and featuring everybody’s favourite Grim Reaper. This calls for the intervention of one man – Death (well… one anthropomorphic personification anyway) – to masquerade as the Hogfather and help restore faith that the light will return. Without him delivering presents the little children will lose their belief and without it the sun will not come up. It’s the night before Hogswatch and the Hogfather is missing.
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