A Night in the Netherhells

"No more worry, no more fuss! Vushta now belongs to us!" Thus spoke the dreaded rhyming demon, Guxx Unfufadoo, as he and his fiendish minions dragged the City of Forbidden Delights down deep into their dire domain. Gone is Vashta! Gone the Greater Vashta Academy of Magic and Sorcery! And gone with it the mighty wizard Ebenezum's hope of a cure for his malady of magicks. A champion must be found to face the wrath of Guxx and rescue the City from his foul clutches. Someone brave. Someone bold. Someone expendable. So Wuntvor, the wizard's hapless apprentice, prepares to go where no mortal man has gone before, into the very teeth (and claws) of danger, armed only with a magic sword, a magic horn, a magic hat, five hundred ferrets... And a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card. (from the back cover of the Ace Books first edition)