Welcome to the Official Fan Website for the Wizard Academies series of fantasy books.

Wizard Academies I: A Gathering of Enchantment and Wizard Academies II:The Heart of Darkness are designed to appeal to the same audience as the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling.

They are anthologies of short stories of young adult fantasies about magickally-gifted youngsters training to be the Wizards of Tomorrow.

Their problems are the same as those facing other young adults:

* Who will win the big game?

* Does that handsome older boy like me?

* Will anyone be eaten by the hideous beast in the cafeteria?

* How many years can you spend in detention and still graduate?

( It makes a difference whether detention involves writing lines on the blackboard ...
or mucking out monster cages )

The answers to these and other questions are found in this delightful assortment of wizardling adventures. The dangers are deadly, the young heroes are plucky, the professors are learned, and the villains are dangerous and evil.

The anthology includes:

* Murder mystery stories with characters and plots reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe, and Oliver Twist. The student wizards solve crimes that Scotland Yard can't unravel.

* A chilling ghost story in which the students are reincarnated and try to find out who they were in their previous lives.

* Gothic romances in which the heroine has to decide who she will allow to kiss her - the nice guy or the monster.

* Wild-and-wooly adventure tales with tongue-and-cheek humour and dragons to conquer.

The evil faery Delisandre le Fay, queen of Elfin Court of Foxcastle, is trying to get her hands on a terribly powerful magickal talisman, but nobody quite knows for sure what it is - and many people guess wrong.

Wrong guesses often lead to extremely varied and sometimes fatal consequences.

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