Sorcery is all around us. From a child's struggles to control magical powers for the first time, to the epic clashes of forces of good and evil on a titanic scale, here are more than twenty of the finest in contemporary and classic wizardry tales. Ranging from Michael Moorcock's "Master of Chaos," the story of a knight traveling to a castle on the edge of the world to face the ultimate sorcerer, to Peter Crowther's "The Eternal Altercation," in which a man is forced into the eternal battle between hope and despair on a sorcerer-controlled train, The Mammoth Book of Sorcerers' Tales also includes stories from Ursula Le Guin, Steve Rasnic Tem, James Bibby, Robert Weinberg, A. C. Benson, Michael Kurland, and Louise Cooper. Contains: Ten Things I Know About the Wizard by Steve Rasnic Tem Villaggio Sogno by Richard A. Lupoff The Game of Magical Death by Doug Hornig The Infestation by Tom Holt The Witch's Bicycle by Timm Pratt The Sage of Theare by Diana Wynne Jones Timekeeper by John Morressy The Double Shadow by Clark Ashton Smith The Rite Stuff by Michael Kurland Master of Chaos by Michael Moorcock Seven Drops of Blood by Robert Weinberg To Become a Sorcerer by Darrell Schweitzer No. 252 Rue M. le Prince by Ralph Adams Cram The Bones of the Earth by Ursula K. LeGuin The Closed Window by A.C. Benson Disillusioned by Lawrence Schimel and Mike Resnick In the Realm of Dragons by Esther M. Friesner Forever by Tim Lebbon The Wizard of Ashes and Rain by David Sandner The Walker Behind by Marion Zimmer Bradley The Last Witch by James Bibby Last Rites by Louise Cooper The Eternal Altercation by Peter Crowther