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Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful
by
Paula Guran ,
Elizabeth Bear (Goodreads Author) , Tanith Lee , Madeleine L'Engle , Kelly Link , Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author) , Andre Norton , Richard Parks (Goodreads Author)
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A bewitching brew of stories sure to enchant.
Surrounded by the aura of magic, witches have captured our imaginations for millennia and fascinate us now more than ever. No longer confined to the image of a hexing old crone, witches can be kindly healers and protectors, tough modern urban heroines, holders of forbidden knowledge, sweetly domestic spellcasters, darkly dominee...more
Surrounded by the aura of magic, witches have captured our imaginations for millennia and fascinate us now more than ever. No longer confined to the image of a hexing old crone, witches can be kindly healers and protectors, tough modern urban heroines, holders of forbidden knowledge, sweetly domestic spellcasters, darkly dominee...more
Paperback, 375 pages
Published
March 13th 2012
by Prime Books
(first published March 6th 2012)
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It was okay. I've had much better anthologies. Some stories I disliked intensely. Some others I couldn't even finish or skimmed over lightly. I can't even remember most of them. I remember that I liked a couple of them, but I can't rightly remember which they were.
The stories are: Walpurgis afternoon, Delia Sherman; Nightside, Mercedes Lackey; The cold blacksmith, Elizabeth Bear; Basement magic, Ellen Klages; Mirage and magia, Tanith Lee; Lessons with Miss Gray, Theodora Gross; The world is crue...more
The stories are: Walpurgis afternoon, Delia Sherman; Nightside, Mercedes Lackey; The cold blacksmith, Elizabeth Bear; Basement magic, Ellen Klages; Mirage and magia, Tanith Lee; Lessons with Miss Gray, Theodora Gross; The world is crue...more
This was a fairly good anthology. But like all anthologies some of the stories were hit and miss. My favorites were: Walpurgis Afternoon,which focused on animals and gardening and the witches were lesbians, quite creative. Lessons with Miss Gray had an odd way of telling the story, but the characters were vivid and the magic, ridiculous, in a good way. However the ending made it seem like there should be another story. The World is Cruel, My Daughter was Rapunzel from the witch's point of view a...more
I love discovering authors, and found three in this anthology: Richard Parks: Skin Deep, Ellen Klages: Basement Magic and Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Bloodlines. Ellen Klages' story answered a question I've had all my life: what is a goofer. Growing up my mom (and my husbands mom) said things were as soft as goofer feathers. It's from a black comedy team on the radio. Not all the stories were great, but they were mostly good. The above were outstanding, as was Neil Gaiman's and Ursula K. Le Guin's, of...more
A collection of witch stories, where the witches range from protective guardians to the sort of person you don't turn your back on. Some traditional stories retold, and new ones with an imaginative spin. The stories range from light-hearted and funny to dark and truly grotesque, so they're likely to be hit-or-miss for readers who want a particular tone.
Avid fantasy readers are likely to find a favorite author, though, and you can always skip a story that doesn't appeal.
Avid fantasy readers are likely to find a favorite author, though, and you can always skip a story that doesn't appeal.
When I pick up a book of short stories, I expect to read stories I've never seen before. Not here. 20+ stories and only two of them new. Moreover, I didn't care for many of the selections, which seemed to have been made to illustrate a "form" of witchcraft over the ages, rather than being good reads. Even stories by my favorite authors weren't the ones I would've chosen.
This was a decent collection of short tales all dealing with witches. As with any collection, the style, focus, intensity and enjoyability varies. I ran across a Witch World tale I had not read and others that I enjoyed. Part of the reason I read anthologies is to expose myself to authors that I would not otherwise encounter since I do not buy (for various reasons) as many novels as I did earlier. Enjoy dipping into the tales.
I go into anthologies expecting there to be hit and misses but I usually leave with a few authors I want to check out. this did the opposite of that. I had to make a note to not look at author's names because I refuse to think this is their best work.
Everything felt very off, and not in a good way for me.
Everything felt very off, and not in a good way for me.
I give most of the stories in this book at least a 4 out of 5. However, the last two stories really weren't my cup of tea.
My new favorite quote is from Neil Gaiman's contribution. "Wherever you go, you take yourself with you." Totally need to read the book this is an excerpt from.
My new favorite quote is from Neil Gaiman's contribution. "Wherever you go, you take yourself with you." Totally need to read the book this is an excerpt from.
Yeah, just no.
You are better off not reading it, really. It was honestly the worst compilation of stories I have read. There was only about 3 really good ones.
You are better off not reading it, really. It was honestly the worst compilation of stories I have read. There was only about 3 really good ones.
Anthology. Some of the stories are very good, some so-so, a couple I had to just skip after the first page or two.
Jumped from three to four stars with the inclusion of a story by L'Engle and an early one by LeGuin. Pure gold.
A really nice collection of stories, Though I would have been happier if the last few were spread throughout the book, and it ended with a better one. I plan on re-reading it very soon.
Great Collection of Witch stories
Some stories with very interesting premises.
As with most anthologies, there were some stories I enjoyed a great deal, some I couldn't really stomach, and most of the rest fell somewhere in between.
I'd read stuff by many of the featured authors but some of the ones I didn't know intrigued me so I have made a note to look into the works of Ellen Klages, Cory Kerry, Richard Parks, Cynthia Ward, and Margo Lanagan.
I'd read stuff by many of the featured authors but some of the ones I didn't know intrigued me so I have made a note to look into the works of Ellen Klages, Cory Kerry, Richard Parks, Cynthia Ward, and Margo Lanagan.
this is a free book i won from goodreads.
I loved it all about all the witch stories. I loved the first love about the lesiban couple that got married who were witches and let mother & daughter neighbor's that they were witches also. Was great book and hope to read more stories like these.
Some of the stories were fantastic while some I wish I had never read.
A fine collection of short stories. I'll never think about Rapunzel the same way again.
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Paula Guran is senior editor for Prime Books. She edited the Juno fantasy imprint from its small press inception through its incarnation as an imprint of Pocket Books. She is also senior editor of Prime's soon-to-launch digital imprint Masque Books. Guran edits the annual Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror series as well as a growing number of other anthologies. In an earlier life she produced we...more
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Apr 11, 2012 04:43am