One archetypethe youngest son who sets out to seek his fortunemeets another: a wizard returning home after completing his apprenticeship. Although the two never meet again, both of their lives are changed by the chance encounter and by subsequent events in the invisible world of the mind. These events include the experiences of meditating monks, the wizards spells, and the explorations by both the wizard and a female monk into the nature of time and the possible existence of alternative realities. The Invisible World is inextricably linked with the reality of the physical world: a world like our own in pre-industrial times but with some differences in social attitudes towards religion and towards sexual behaviour.
" --Scott Westerfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Zeroes "The unpredictability of curses, magic, and love are inexorably entwined in this gracefully written story.
Suzanne Weyn brings her trademark mix of history, romance, and the supernatural to the Salem Witch Trials.Elsabeth James has powers she doesn't fully understand.
A remarkable debut collection of short fiction by the critically acclaimed author of Jernigan and Preston Falls includes the title story, "Star Baby," "The Crazy Thought," and "The Mail Lady," in which a stroke victim struggles to find a ...
Pass through fairy tales into the magic of invisible worlds in these opulent stories by a beloved fantasy icon and author of the classic Riddlemaster trilogy.
The two very rare works reprinted in the present volume, written by two of the most celebrated of the early American divines, relate to one of the most extraordinary cases of popular delusion that modern times have witnessed.
The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New England
In this book, Garrick A. Bailey brings together in a clear, understandable way La Flesche’s data for two important Osage religious ceremonies--the "Songs of Wa-xo’-be," an initiation into a clan priesthood, and the Rite of the Chiefs, ...
A page-turning story, Map of the Invisible World follows the journeys of two brothers and an American woman who are indelibly marked by the past—and swept up in the tides of history.
In this volume three stories from Persian poem the Khamseh - "Khosrow and Shirin," "Layla and Majnum," and "The Seven Princesses" - have been told with abridgement in prose.
This is the Invisible World...a place where darkness births bizarre beings, where fantastic civilizations flourish, and where a cast of mythical friends and foes push The Dreamer ever closer to an unknown goal.