Dozois, Gardner (ed) - The Book of Magic / Дозуа, Гарднер - Книга магии [2018, EPUB, ENG]

The Return of the Pig / Возвращение свиньи novelette by Tom Holt (as by K. J. Parker) Community Service / Общественные работы novelette by Robin Hobb (as by Megan Lindholm) Flint and Mirror / Кремень и зеркало novelette by John Crowley The Friends of Masquelayne the Incomparable / Друзья Маскелейна Неотразимого novelette by Matthew Hughes The Biography of a Bouncing Boy Terror, Chapter II: Jumping Jack in Love / Биография Джека-Попрыгунчика: Джек и любовь novelette by Ysabeau S. Wilce Song of Fire / Песнь огня novelette by Rachel Pollack Loft the Sorcerer / Колдун Лофт novelette by Eleanor Arnason The Governor / Регулятор novelette by Tim Powers Sungrazer / Околосолнечная novelette by Liz Williams The Staff in the Stone / Посох в камне novelette by Garth Nix No Work of Mine / Не моих рук дело novelette by Elizabeth Bear Widow Maker / Смертельная угроза novelette by Lavie Tidhar The Wolf and the Manticore / Волк и мантикора novelette by Greg van Eekhout A Night at the Tarn House / Ночь в гостинице «У озера» novelette by George R. R. Martin The Devil's Whatever / Родственник Дьявола novelette by Andy Duncan Bloom / Цветение novelette by Kate Elliott The Fall and Rise of the House of the Wizard Malkuril / Падение и расцвет дома волшебника Малкерила novelette by Scott Lynch

The low, dry stone walls that delineated the three angled commons belonging to the villages of Gamel, Thrake, and Seyam met at an ancient obelisk known to everyone simply as “the Corner Post.” Feuds between villagers would be settled at the Corner Post, by wrestling and challenges of skill, or the more serious in a formal conclave of elders from all three villages. Twice in the last hundred years the obelisk had been the site of full-scale battles between Gamel and Thrake against Seyam, and then Gamel and Seyam against Thrake. Every spring, the ploughs would stop well short of the Corner Post, for fear of disturbing the bones of some bygone relative or enemy. In consequence, a small copse of undistinguished trees and shrubs grew around the obelisk, dominated by a single, tall rowan tree, often remarked on, for there were no other rowans for leagues around, and no one living knew how it had come to be planted there. Small children played under the rowan in the early morning, evading their chores, and lovers met there for trysts in the early evening. No one went near stone and copse by dead of night, because of the bones, and the stories that were told of what might rise there, or perhaps be drawn there, come midnight. . . .