Magical shards

Tales from a master of fantasy. Captivating short stories from the Polish author of The Witcher and acclaimed master of fantasy. Andrzej Sapkowski is like a diamond cutter. In his captivating, magical short stories, he conjures up sparkling facets and romantic flashes, playfulness and rawness, the inevitability of fate and a resistance to fanaticism. This collection of six stories by the master of fantasy begins with Maladie, a variation on the medieval legend of Tristan and Iseult, then jumps into romance in Tandaradei!. In the horror story The Musicians, cats venture into places where even dogs fear to tread, and a cat also rules supreme in The Golden Afternoon – the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. Incident at Mischief Creek conjures up witches in 17th-century America, and in the story In the Bomb Crater, the author depicts his vision of what society in our part of Europe might look like after 1989.