In the year 2000, future Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jeff Strand published one of his earliest novels, How to Rescue a Dead Princess. Readership was extremely small…actually, let’s go with “intimate.

” It was an incredibly goofy fantasy comedy, the work of an author who didn’t yet have a speck of silver in his hair, much less the gray onslaught that’s going on now. The book disappeared for many years.

People pleaded with Mr. Strand to reissue it.

“It’s not my best work!” he snarled. “There are lots of other books in the world—read those!” But now, on its 24th anniversary, Mr.

Strand has succumbed to peer pressure and brought it back!It's the saga of Randall, a squire assigned to escort the lovely Princess Dolores on a diplomatic journey of utmost importance. Then she gets killed.

Now Randall must overcome desperate odds and ridiculous dangers in his quest to bring her back to life. .

. before the entire Generic Fantasy Land falls into the evil clutches of The Dark One!How to Rescue a Dead Princess.

The greatest comedic fantasy novel of all time? An immature work that tries too hard? YOU decide. .