Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy

7 best books like Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy (Jack Dann): Our Lady of Darkness, Welcome to Bordertown, The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art, The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction, The City of Dreadful Night

Our Lady of Darkness

Author	Fritz Leiber
ISBN	0441644171

Middle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his window…and wave.

This encounter sends Westen on a quest through...

Welcome to Bordertown

Author	Holly Black
ISBN	0375867058

Bordertown: a city on the border between our human world and the elfin realm. Runaway teens come from both sides of the border to find adventure, to find themselves. Elves play in rock bands and race down the street on spell-powered motorbikes. Human kids recreate themselves in the squats and clubs and...

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest

Author	Ellen Datlow
ISBN	0142400297

One of our most universal myths is that of the Green Man, the spirit who stands for Nature in its most wild and untamed form. Through the ages and around the world, the Green Man and other nature spirits have appeared in stories, songs, and artwork, as well as many beloved fantasy novels, including Tolkien's...

Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art

Author	Susan Aberth
ISBN	0853319081

This is the first book to survey the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (born 1917). nineteen-year-old debutante, she escaped the stultifying demands of her wealthy English family by running away to Paris with her lover Max Ernst. She was immediately championed by Andre Breton,...

The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm

Author	Ellen Datlow
ISBN	0142404063

Faeries, or creatures like them, can be found in almost every culture the world over--benevolent and terrifying, charming and exasperating, shifting shape from country to country, story to story, and moment to moment. In The Faery Reel, acclaimed anthologists Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have...

Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction

Author	Sharyn November
ISBN	0142403202

Firebirds is more than simply an anthology -- it is a celebration of wonderful writing. It gathers together sixteen original stories by some of today's finest writers of fantasy and science fiction. Together, they have won virtually every major prize -- from the National Book Award to the World Fantasy...

The City of Dreadful Night

Author	James Thomson
ISBN	1905432194

I'm browsing Thomson's work on internet sites, not this edition. He was a nineteenth century Scottish writer, a depressive alcoholic who has been compared with Poe. I read 'The City of Dreadful Night' from a Project Gutenberg portal. It's an account of a Wasteland and a City (based, apparently, upon...