
Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn is the eighth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. This book is a story within a story as one of Castle Roogna's ghosts, Jordan the Barbarian, tells Princess Ivy his story of betrayal and death via the magical medium of the Tapestry.

Man from Mundania, the twelfth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony, concludes the trilogy of Vale of the Vole and Heaven Cent.

Vale of the Vole is the tenth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. It begins a trilogy including Heaven Cent and Man from Mundania. The novel was written as a satirical jab at the canalization of the Kissimmee River in Piers' native state of Florida as a result of the effects of the 1947 Atlantic hurricane …