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Matthew Hughes was born in Liverpool, England, but has spent most of his adult life in Canada. He’s worked as a journalist, as a staff speechwriter for the Canadian Ministers of Justice and Environment, and as a freelance corporate and political speechwriter in British Columbia before settling down to write fiction full-time. Clearly strongly influenced by Jack Vance, as an author Hughes has made his reputation detailing the adventures of characters like Henghis Hapthorn, Guth Bandar, and Luff Imbry who live in the era just before that of The Dying Earth, in a series of popular stories and novels that include Fools Errant, Fool Me Twice, Black Brillion, Majestrum, Hespira, The Spiral Labyrinth, Template, Quartet and Triptych, The Yellow Cabochon, The Other, and The Commons, with his stories being collected in The Gist Hunter and Other Stories and The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories. He’s also written the Urban Fantasy To Hell and Back trilogy, The Damned Busters, Costume Not Included, and Hell to Pay. He also writes crime fiction as Matt Hughes and media tie-in novels as Hugh Matthews. His most recent books are the Luff Imbry novellas, Of Whimsies & Noubles and Epiphanies, the science-fantasy novel, A Wizard’s Henchman, and the collection Devil or Angel and Other Stories.

In the flamboyant story that follows, a wizard’s henchman bungles an important mission and finds that he has to deal with a cascading sequence of wildly extravagant consequences.