{"product_id":"mask-of-the-sorcerer-9780809532810","title":"Mask of the Sorcerer","description":"\"If ever your heart has said, _The great days are no more. The golden afternoon of golden tales has faded into night, and I came late, born out of time, to warm my hands at the embers that flicker and fade hour by hour_ -- read this. . . Here are ghosts grim and gentle, red gold of Ophir, and fell weavings. Here is a tale to keep Scheherazade talking a hundred years.\" -- Gene Wolfe \u003cp\u003e \"Darrell Schweitzer is a fine writer . . . Not only is he skilled in the exotic use of the best trappings of Fantasy, he employs a disquieting awareness of the dark nooks of the mind and soul. . . .Best of all, Schweitzer is a story-teller, by whose smoky fire one may sit spell-bound.\" -- Tanith Lee \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Superlative.\" --Interzone \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Darrell Schweitzer has been three-times nominated for the World Fantasy Award, twice for Best Collection, and once for the novella \"To Become a Sorcerer,\" which forms the first four chapters of this book. He is also the author of _The White Isle, The Shattered Goddess, _ and nearly 300 short stories, many of which are collected in such volumes as _Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out, Transients, Refugees from an Imaginary Country, Nightscapes, _ and _The Great World and the Small._ An expert on fantastic fiction, who has written books about Lord Dunsany and H.P. Lovecraft, he is also co-editor of the legendary _Weird Tales_ magazine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wildside Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845436870930,"sku":"9780809532810","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_899b0fa3-bf67-496e-8a1d-df4807177fb9.jpg?v=1737350902","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mask-of-the-sorcerer-9780809532810","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}