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Golden Gate and Other Stories by R. A. Lafferty; The Golden Pot and Other Tales by E. T. A. Hoffmann; Golden Wings and Other Stories by William Morris; The Great World and the Small: More Tales of the Ominous and Magical by Darrell Schweitzer; Green Magic by Jack Vance
Magic in those days was almost instinctual and inborn; it was an art. Those days ended with Merlin, the last of the old wizards, famous for his mentorship of King Arthur and the realm of Camelot. When he withdrew from the world, magic itself began to withdraw, and the wizards retreated from human sight.
Stories involving magic and terrible monsters have existed in spoken forms before the advent of printed literature. Classical mythology is replete with fantastical stories and characters, the best known (and perhaps the most relevant to modern fantasy) being the works of Homer (Greek) and Virgil (Roman).
V.E. Schwab, pseudonym for Victoria Schwab (born 1987), author of Shades of Magic trilogy; Darrell Schweitzer (born 1952) Michael Scott (born 1959), author of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series; Martin Scott (born 1959), author of "Thraxas" Darren Shan, author of The Saga of Darren Shan, The Demonata and short stories
"The Sage of Theare", found in Hecate’s Cauldron (1982), and Warlock at the Wheel and Other Stories (1984), and Minor Arcana (1996), and Believing is Seeing: Seven Stories (1999), and Mixed Magics: Four Tales of Chrestomanci (2000), and The Mammoth Book of Sorcerer’s Tales: The Ultimate Collection of Magical Fantasy (2004), and Unnatural ...
Short story – A circular paradox in which a man discovers that he is his own mother and father. 1959–1989 The Time Machine series "Donald Keith" alias of Donald & Keith Monroe: Series of 23 short stories published in Boys' Life magazine centered around a patrol of Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine. 1961 Danny Dunn, Time Traveler
The series presents a full retelling of the Arthurian legend with entirely natural explanations of the magical abilities attributed to Merlin. In A Logical Magician (1994), also published as A Modern Magician, and its sequel A Calculated Magic (1996) by Robert Weinberg, Merlin is portrayed as a being brought into existence through belief. Thus ...
Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.