• Surrounded by the aura of magic, witches have captured our imagination formillennia and fascinate us now more than ever. No longer confined to the imageof a hexing old crone, witches can be kindly healers and protectors, toughmodern urban heroines, holders of forbidden knowledge, sweetly domesticspellcasters, darkly domineering, sexy enchantresses, ancient sorceresses,modern Wiccans, empowered or persecuted, possessors of supernatural abilitiesthat can be used for good or evil - or perhaps only perceived as such.Welcome to the world of witchery in many guises: wicked, wild, andwonderful!

A collection of short stories features witches as main characters and contains works by such prominent authors as Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Madeleine L'Engle, and Ursula K. Le Guin.