The Penguin Book Of Witches And Warlocks Tales Of Black Magic Old And New

Nose-dive under the spell of these tales of black magic. Witches and warlocks curse, jinx, hex, hold, becharm, and bedevil their losses in these tales of sorcery and the magical. In Oscar Wilde's "The Fisherman and His Living being," a witch condemns a man's genus to amble loveless order mysterious lands: Isaac Asimov's "The Up-to-Date Sorcerer" portrays an free spirit instructor who invents a hormone perseverance that inspires love; and in Nathaniel Hawthrones's "Unripe Goodman Saut," a devil fairy-tale a man fashionable brains his spouse is a witch--though it may not be a gambit.This spooky secure includes works by such classic authors as Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, W.B. Yeats, L. Authentic Baum, and Nikolai Gogol, as well as bestow writers such as Isaac Bashevis Player, Ray Bradbury, Male Wade Wellman, Daniel Pinkwater, Tanith Lee Robert Bloch and numerous others.