Magician's Circle

More Spellbinding Stories of Wizards and Wizardry

By: Peter Haining (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 January 2004

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Magicians Circle is the sequel to Wizards' Den, another selection of spellbinding stories of wizards and wizardry by everyone's favourite children's writers. There is a Philip Pullman contribution, 'Dr Cadaverezzi's Magic Show', and stories from leading children's writers such as Jacqueline Wilson, Roald Dahl, Peter Beagle and Terence Blacker. Harry Potter may be the most popular fictional boy wizard but he is not the only one, nor the first by a long spell.

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Haining follows up Wizards' Den (2003) with 14 more tales replete with witches, wizards, and magic-working, many from the same stellar cast of contributors. The only weak link is George MacDonald's "The Day Boy and the Night Girl," which comes off these days as florid and overwritten. Otherwise, from such classics as Charles Dickens's "Magic Fishbone" and H.G. Wells's "Magic Shop," to page-turning episodes from Philip Pullman's Count Karlstein, Roald Dahl's The Witches, and more from the likes of Ursula K. LeGuin, Jacqueline Wilson, and Peter S. Beagle, readers will be spellbound from start to finish. Making frequent references to Harry Potter and other high-profile fantasy, Haining opens each tale with a "hook," and closes with enticing comments about each author's other work. All in all, a first-rate blend of new and old, hilarious and terrifying, romantic, adventuresome, ingenious, and startling outings from many of the most renowned fantasists of the past three centuries. (Short stories. 10-15) (Kirkus Reviews)

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