Power. We all want it. They've got it—witches, warlocks, sorcerers, necromancers: those who peer beneath the veil of mundane reality and put their hands on the levers that move the universe. They see the future in a sheet of glass, summon fantastic beasts, and transform lead into gold... or you into a frog.

From Gandalf to Harry Potter to the Last Airbender, wizardry has never been more exciting and popular. Enter a world where anything is possible, where imagination becomes reality. Experience the thrill of power: the way of the wizard. Acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams (The Living Dead) brings you thirty-two of the most spellbinding tales ever written, by some of today's most magical talents, including Neil Gaiman, Simon R. Green, and George R.R. Martin.


CONTENTS

01 - George R.R. Martin, In The Lost Lands
02 - David Barr Kirtley, Family Tree
03 - Susanna Clarke, John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner
04 - Delia Sherman, Wizard's Apprentice
05 - Jeffrey Ford, The Sorcerer Minus
06 - C.C. Finlay, Life So Dear or Peace So Sweet
07 - Rajan Khanna, Card Sharp
08 - Genevieve Valentine, So Deep that the Bottom Could Not Be Seen
09 - Nnedi Okorafor, The Go-Slow
10 - Krista Hoeppner Leahy, Too Fatal a Poison
11 - Orson Scott Card, Jamaica
12 - Robert Silverberg, The Sorcerer's Apprentice (content warning: sexual assault)
13 - Wendy N. Wagner, The Secret of Calling Rabbits
14 - Kelly Link, The Wizards of Perfil
15 - Neil Gaiman, How to Sell the Ponti Bridge
16 - Christie Yant, The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories
17 - Mike Resnick, Winter Solstice (content warning: dementia)
18 - Cinda Williams Chima, The Trader and the Slave
19 - Adam-Troy Castro, Cerile and the Journeyer
20 - Yoon Ha Lee, Counting the Shapes
21 - Lev Grossman, Endgame
22 - Simon R. Green, Street Wizard
23 - T.A. Pratt, Mommy Issues of the Dead
24 - Jeremiah Tolbert, One-Click Banishment
25 - Jonathan L. Howard, The Ereshkigal Working
26 - David Farland, Feeding the Feral Children
27 - Vylar Kaftan, The Orange-Tree Sacrifice
28 - Desirina Boskovich, Love is the Spell That Casts Out Fear (content warning: sexual assault)
29 - Peter S. Beagle, El Regalo
30 - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word of Unbinding
31 - John R. Fultz, The Thirteen Texts of Arthyria
32 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Secret of the Blue Star