Gargoyles are famous for being steadfast - or even immovable, which is what you would expect from a creature made of stone. So when Gary Gargoyle seeks out the Good Magician to ask him to alter his geis, he is prepared to do anything.
Good Magician Humfrey doesn't let him down . . .
Soon he is babysitting a little girl so surprising she is called Surprise, barely resisting the allure of seductive Sorceress Iris and disentangling the snares of perverse Demoness Mentia. His problems really start, though, when he and his hair-raising harem reach Stone Hinge, the lost city of the Realm of Madness.