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*