Sorcery is all around us. From a child's struggles to control magical powers for the first time, to the epic clashes of forces of good and evil on a titanic scale, here are more than twenty of the finest in contemporary and classic wizardry tales.

Edited by Mike Ashley

Contents:

• Ten Things I Know About the Wizard by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Villaggio Sogno by Richard A. Lupoff
• The Game of Magical Death by Doug Hornig
• The Infestation by Tom Holt
• The Witch's Bicycle by Timm Pratt
• The Sage of Theare by Diana Wynne Jones
• Timekeeper by John Morressy
• The Double Shadow by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Rite Stuff by Michael Kurland
• Master of Chaos by Michael Moorcock
• Seven Drops of Blood by Robert Weinberg
• To Become a Sorcerer by Darrell Schweitzer
• No. 252 Rue M. le Prince by Ralph Adams Cram
• The Bones of the Earth by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Closed Window by A.C. Benson
• Disillusioned by Lawrence Schimel and Mike Resnick
• In the Realm of Dragons by Esther M. Friesner
• Forever by Tim Lebbon
• The Wizard of Ashes and Rain by David Sandner
• The Walker Behind by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Last Witch by James Bibby
• Last Rites by Louise Cooper
• The Eternal Altercation by Peter Crowther