A Lionel Fenn Page

Lionel Fenn has created three different series of books, all funny and more than a bit off-the-wall. Like another favorits, John DeChancie, he wrote a chunk of books over a relatively short period and then just stopped. Don't know why... perhaps Fenn is a Penn-name and I just haven't figured out who he/she really is!

The first series deals with the Quest for the White Duck and will satisfy even hard-core fantasy readers. It has magic and flying and a white duck and everything. There are three books that almost are written as a trilogy. They can be read in any order but you will get the best picture of the quest if you read them in the order shown below (reading from left to right)

Blood River Down	Web of Defeat	Agnes Day
When Gideon Sunday, ex-football player, steped through the back wall of his pantry, he stepped into an alternate world. A world in need of a hero. So, he sets out along with lovely lady gloria on the quest to locate a missing enchanted duck. A white duck with the key to Gideon's sudden power.	Gideon is still trying to find his way back to his own reality, and his own pantry. Now he knows that he is looking for a bridge. The Bridge that will take him home. But to find it he must confront witches, demons, and an overly amorous giantess who might just love him... to death.	In the conclusion to the quest for the white duck, Gideon is still being forced into the role of very reluctant hero. Agnes, the wicked wife of the evil Sorcerer Wamchu, threatens to destroy everything, including the Bridge. Gideon is everyone's only hope.

His next series is the lightest reading by far, and probably the funniest. Fenn goes for the funny bone with books that lampoon other types of books, such as sci-fi, mysteries, "it happened in a swamp..." and others. The main character is Kent Montana—actor.

The titles alone are brilliant. The only other author to come up with better titles is Craig Shaw Gardner with is Slaves of the Volcano Gods, Revenge of the Fluffy Bunnies, and X.

Kent Montana, descended from Scottish nobility and out-of-work actor. IT has crashed near a smnall town where Kent is staying, IT is big and ugly and has a death ray that IT wants to use. Kent finds himself on a search and destroy-or-be-destroyed mission.	A mad scientist has discovered the secret of temporary invisibility. He plans to use this new-found formula to get revenge. Kent, on a trip to a small England town, gets involved in finding and thwarting the reasonably invisible man, even though he really doesn't want to.	Take one swamp in a southern state, add one swamp creature, and you find that tourists start to disappear. Kent gets caught up in the search for the monster beforfe it is too late. After all, it is Spring, when a swamp monster's fancy turns to thoughts of love. Bizarre love, but love.
Mark of the Moderately Vicious Vampire 668: The Neighbor of the Beast He's old, turns into a bat and drinks the blood of the living. He's on a search for a woman who can become his "life's" companion. Now he's on vacation in New England, and people start to die. Kent Montana gets involved with vampires and vampire hunters in this very funnt spoof on Dracula and the Anne Rice vampire novels. Strange things are happening in the neighborhood. Anyone who spends the night at 668 Langford Place runs afoul of Bog-Muggoth, an ancient demon who makes the Amityville horror seem like Casper. But it isn't alone. Other evil beings from beyond spacetime have come to Earth for their share. Only Kent Montana can keep these old Dieties from dieting on the Human race.

Fenn wrote a trilogy of time traveling westerns. Diego is a gunfighter from the tail end of the 19th century who makes the mistake of stepping aboard a strange train. Of course, if he didn't get on the train, he would have died and the series would have been very short, about 20 pages or so.

Once Upon a Time in The West	By The Time I Get To Nashville	Time: The Semi-Final Frontier
The start of the Diego chronicles. About to find that his gunfighting skills may not be enough to get him out of an ambush situation, Diego jumps aboard a train. And finds himself traveling through space and time to New York in the 1990's. There, he finds that things have changed, sort of. New York is no less dangerous that Dodge City.	Diego and Molly travel to Nashville in the 22nd century only to find that the Old West is worshiped as a religion, and Diego is thought to be one of the Gods. The bad news is that he is about to be hanged for impersonating the God, Diego.	The travelers move on to the 26th century and find themselves in the middle of a space war. Diego must risk his neck against a female terrorist known as the Space Avenger and some of the wierdest creatures he's seen since he go a bad bottle of rotgut whiskey. But, they've never seen anyone like Diego.

Fenn also wrote a book that sort of follows in the vein as the first three on this page. But it is not part of that or any other series. It is a fantasy book with magic and small, furry animals and such.

All of these books are out of print but I see them at lots of used bookstores. Try you local use book merchants first, then you might try ordering them from an on-line service such as Powells Books.