Lore of the Witch World
A Witch World Collection

Several stories from the early days of High Hallack. Interesting reading.......more

For an explanation of why I read this book, click here. Thanks to this author, I thought Andre was a girl's name for most of my youth. I wouldn't call myself a devoted fan, but Norton has written some of my favorite books, including the YA title Octagon Magic and Year of the Unicorn, which I read vor......more

This was a collection of stand-alone Witch World stories from various anthologies, though "Toads of Grimmerdale" does get a sequel, "Changeling," written for this volume. The stories follow the formula Norton's used in several of the novels: outcast protagonist (here all female) bonds with rootless......more

This is the first book by Andre Norton that I've read. I always see about a billion of her books in secondhand bookstores, and was at a loss for where to start, so I kept an eye out for any sort of collections such as this one. Each novella is a delightful little tale of heroism in a recently war-to......more

They were okay stories told in an interesting way, but Holy Shit does this entire book need editing! Did no one look at the book before publishing it? The period ending a sentence was often missing and at many times personal pronouns were altered by one letter like 'be' for 'he'. Also, I didn't reali......more