A Wizard's Dozen: Stories of the Fantastic

By Michael Stearns

Book Overview

These horror stories come from some of today's best writers in the genre, including Bruce Coville, Jane Yolen, and Vivian Vande Velde. "Many of the selections . . . read like updated episodes of "The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590865420
• ISBN13: 9780590865425
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Point
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.5" x 4.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

An enchanting book filled with wonderful stories

I'm not a big fantasy buff. Those series' are way too hard to follow, but I usually read short stories. When I picked this one up at the library, I liked the cover, and I had read a lot of other books by authors who had written stories for it. So I though ' Why not?'. I have to say that my favorite story was ' The Sixty-Two Curses of Caliph Arreenschaad. All the stories were fantastic and I kept reading because they were all different and unique. I'm planning on reading 'A Nightmare's Dozen' and 'A Starfarer's Dozen' as well!

A Great Book

"A Wizard's Dozen" was an excellent book of fairy-tail like stories, but they were more or less like a tangled web, much more complicated and exciting than "Cinderella" or "Aladdin". Each story had a sort of lesson to teach, explained inside of the story. All the stories told tales of fantastic beings or places, or of lessons taught to others by spirits. I highly reccommend this book to anyone with a good knowledge for fantasy.

Take the bad with the good...

A Wizard's Dozan contained some interesting stories that were thought provoking, touching, or sweet. But some of the stories were a little imature and silly. Over all, however, the majority of the stories were satisfying and the book makes a good purchase, if only for the splendid illistrations and cover.