“Reads like author Christopher Moore laughed his head off while writing it, quite possibly taking hits of nitrous oxide between sentences.”

—Miami Herald

Island of the Sequined Love Nun

“Humor that seamlessly blends lunacy with larceny…habit-forming zaniness…. The careers of the writers with even a quarter as much wit and joie de vivre as Moore are always worth following.”

—USA Today

Bloodsucking Fiends

“Goofy grotesqueries…wonderful…delicious…bloody funny…like a hip and youthful ‘Abbott and Costello Meet the Lugosis.’”

—San Francisco Chronicle

Coyote Blue

“Brilliant…. Moore’s raucous, lewd, hip novel is part love story and part spiritual search.”

—Santa Barbara Independent

Practical Demonkeeping

“Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.”

—Carl Hiaasen

ALSO BY
Christopher Moore

Coyote Blue

Bloodsucking Fiends

Island of the Sequined Love Nun

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff,
Christ’s Childhood Pal

Fluke: Or, I Know Why the
Winged Whale Sings

Credits

Cover illustration and typography by Ruth Marten

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

PRACTICAL DEMONKEEPING. Copyright © 1992 by Christopher Moore. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books™.

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Mobipocket Reader April 2006 ISBN 0-06-117661-3

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Moore, Christopher
Practical demonkeeping/Christopher Moore.
p.cm.
I. Title. II Practical demonkeeping.
PS3563.0594P73 1992
813’.54—dc20
ISBN 0-380-81655-5 (pbk.)
ISBN 0-06-073542-2 (reissue)

10 9 8 7

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