Blood River Down

Lionel Fenn is a pseudonym of Charles L. Grant.

Doorway into a magical realm.

The back wall of Gideon Sunday's pantry was missing that night--and in its place was a doorway into another world. Not the sort of thing an unemployed ex-football player expects to find when he's looking for a jar of jam!

Worse, the magical forces of this other world have determined that he, Gideon, is the mythic hero destined to combat and destroy the dreaded Tide of Blood that threatens to engulf the land of Chey. But when Gideon Sunday is handed a ball, he takes it and *runs*...

And so, with the lovely lady Glorian, her long-lost and long suffering brother Tag, a magical weapons maker and the great telepathic lorra, Red, Gideon sets off on a most improbably quest: first, to locate and recover an enchanted duck who holds the key to Gideon's power, and then to turn back the tides of horrific destruction.