In the long old tradition of stabkilling royalties that happens to turn their back to the wrong persons at the wrong time, his majesty Verence suddenly finds himself being very, very, dead. Well, what to do about that? The answer is of course: haunt the castle. The people misses the old king simply because the new King and his evil first lady are not at all friendly, in other words, they can't even burn down the cottages in the right way, people don't like that, they expect to get their cottages burned by someone who really mean it, and their new royalties doesn't put their soul in burning old farmers houses. This book is the N:th book in the series about the discworld, the book is mainly about the witches and a travelling theatre. I'm not a big TP-fan, although I enjoy his books very much, I don't feel anything special about this book, but it sure gives you a amusing time. The best books in the Discworld's series is still in my opinion "Mort" and "The Light fantastic". Well, to put it in other words: Not an amazing, awesome, pumping powerhouse of a book, but it will certainly give you a few good laughs.