Zod Wallop — William Browning Spencer

Harry Gainesborough, ex-writer of children's books, just wants to be left alone. But the world, several worlds actually, won't let him. Raymond Story, escaped from Harwood Psychiatric and now married to Emily, a catatonic girl that Raymond declares is the Frozen-Princess, has enlisted some of his fellow psychiatric patients and is intent on saving the world--with Harry's help.

Nonsense of course. But a Ralewing (a nasty sort of flying sting ray that Harry invented for his book) appears to have eaten the paint from the roof of Harry's car; the ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company bears an unsettling resemblance to Zod Wallop's evil Lord Draining, and a hotel in Florida could be about to host the end of the world...