Murphy's Lore: Fools' Day

by Patrick Thomas

There's no better place to spend the day than in Bulfinche's Pub, the bar at the end of the rainbow. That is unless it's April 1st, when the world's Tricksters compete for the honor of the Lord High Trickster. No prank is too big or small, and no target is safe. Rather than be trickster fodder, most of the staff and patrons have wisely fled NYC and gone into hiding until the contest is over.

This year, a patron named Hex's future self, possesses his body in the present, but it's no prank. In mere hours, a Sidhe Queen will seize a Trident missle. After learning that a forerly unknown foreign power has a door into the American heartland, and a nuclear warhead, the US military will launch a preemptive first strike. Faerie is destroyed. The surviving Gentry escape to Earth, as does mystic fallout, aka Nuclear Magic. Because of it, magiks twist and darken. Gods are driven mad. Monsters no longer stay in the shadows. Would governments crumble. Millions die, including Paddy Moran. Bulfinche's Pub is destroyed.

This future must never come to pass. Hex has come back with a plan - have Paddy and the gang put things right before they go bad. Unfortunately, not even Paddy can rally his divine and mystic friends, all of whom think it's part of some elaborate trickster prank. That leaves a handful of tricksters against the US Air Force, Mab's Faerie Army and the mystic might of rival Faerie king Oberon.

It's April Fool's Day at the bar at the end of the rainbow, and no one is safe from the pranksters, tricksters and aliens that plan to wreck havoc.

Genres: Fantasy

194 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

With over a million words in print, PATRICK THOMAS keeps busy writing the the popular fantasy humor series Murphy's Lore (which includes 8 books- Tales From Bulfinche's Pub, Fools' Day, Through The Drinking Glass, Shadow Of The Wolf, Redemption Road, Bartender Of The Gods, Nightcaps and Empty Graves) as well as the After Hours spin offs Fairy With A Gun, Dead To Rites and Lore & Dysorder. His Mystic Investigators series has grown to include the books Bullets & Brimstone and From The Shadows both with John L. French and Once More Upon A Time and the upcoming Partners In Crime both with Diane Raetz. He has co-edited two anthologies - Hear Them Roar and the vampire themed New Blood. Patrick's syndicated humorous advice column Dear Cthulhu has been collected in Have A Dark Day and Good Advice For Bad People. A number of his books are part of the set and props department at the CSI television show. He was voted Preditors & Editors favorite author of 2010. As an artist his work has graced covers for Dark Quest, Padwolf and Marietta, interiors and a cover for Space & Time magazine and comic covers for Ghostman. A mockumentary about him has recently surfaced on Youtube. To learn more, drop by his website at www.patthomas.net.

Reviews

[Ami · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fool’s Day is a very entertaining tale of Sidhe, it’s denizens and a mixed group of humans and mythical beings. There is an underlying storyline that details a serious situation but there is a lot of humor blended into it. I enjoyed it very much even though there is a need for a proofreader.

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