The narrator of Fear the Fantastic is Christopher Hitchcock, who narrated Land of Loss earlier in the "Everworld" series. In that novel, he made wisecracks and jokes as his way of coping with the stress he felt, but the jokes too often served to alienate his companions from him rather than draw them to him as he hoped. Even so, he has his good moments as a narrator: And gee golly gosh, life would have been just swell, just keen, just peachy, except there were a whole bunch of folks after us: Loki, Norse god of insane offspring; Hel, his half-dead, half-babe daughter; his middle child, the Midgard Serpent (who makes Nidhoggr look like a tadpole); Fenrir, Loki's wolf son who's big enough to crap a sofa; and Merlin, who isn't Loki's kid and probably isn't evil but can nevertheless make dead sheep jump...