{"product_id":"mask-of-the-sorcerer-by-darrell-schweitzer-paperback","title":"Mask of the Sorcerer, by Darrell Schweitzer (Paperback)","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\n\u003cp\u003e\t\n\"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\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\"Superlative.\" --Interzone\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\t\nDarrell 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wildside Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43184958767313,"sku":"9780809532810","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/5981\/5377\/files\/9780809532810_FC.jpg?v=1784119179","url":"https:\/\/startlingstories.us\/products\/mask-of-the-sorcerer-by-darrell-schweitzer-paperback","provider":"Startling Stories","version":"1.0","type":"link"}