John Joseph Adams

Collects over thirty tales of wizardry from such authors as George R.R. Martin, Ursula Le Guin, Orson Scott Card, and Lev Grossman.

The Way of the Wizard

Sarah Escorsa

Disclaimer: there are too many 32 short stories in this collection. I only read one of them. My necromancing boyfriend’s. Because I'm despicably selective like that. And also because DUH.

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  The Ereshkigal Working
 by Jonathan L. Howard💀 

➽ And the moral of this reread is: O Jojo! My Jojo! Thou art the mostest deliciousest (and hilariousest) heartless bastard in the history of mostest deliciousest (and hilariousest) heartless bastards. Which kinda sorta makes me feel like...



P.S. Killing one's little self twice shows a certain stoicism, just so you know.

👋 To be continued and stuff.



[December 2018]
  “Cabal was most put out.”
 My poor Jojo. No wonder he’s all put out and stuff. I mean, there he was, doing a little bit of body part specialist snatching shopping for his research in a lovely morgue, when he was suddenly and most rudely interrupted. First by a corpse who didn’t even have the common courtesy to wait to be formally reanimated (how positively outrageous indeed. Whatever happened to basic manners, I wonder?), then by a ridiculously overzealous, over-alert police officer. 



I’m with you on that one, Bertie. What is the world coming to, I ask you?

A good thing my necromancing boyfriend isn’t easily perturbed and always finds quick solutions to the imbroglios at hand: an “ad-hoc de-animation procedure with the introduction of a .577 bullet” here, a “scientifically applied crowbar” there, and off to resume his slightly illegal extra curricular activities he is. And that’s usually when villainous villains (one could argue that the most villainous villain of all is my Jojo, but let’s leave the philosophizing for later, shall we?) try to end the world by way of Erishkigal Working, aka Cunning Zombie Apocalypse (CZA™).



Oooooh, is that a new Disneyland ride? Looks like fun and stuff!

You can imagine how Bloody Shrimping Put Out (BSPO™) Jojo got after this last distasteful interruption in his shopping excursion. He quite obviously decided this could not be and this could not do, and proceeded to save the world. Much to his own disgust, obviously. He is a wonderfully selfish bastard after all, and couldn’t care less about the fate of puny humans, so having to rescue them usually gives him a very bad case of indigestion and stuff. 



Not a pretty sight, huh? To think my Jojo is usually Super Extra Hot when he is his deliciously egotistical little self. That whole saving the world business really doesn’t sit well with him, poor baby. 

What happened after that? Well spoiler spoiler spoiler, obviously.

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· Book 0.5: Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day ★★★★★
· Book 0.75: Exeunt Demon King ★★★★
· Book 1: The Necromancer ★★★★★
· Book 2: The Detective ★★★★★
· Book 2.5: The Ereshkigal Working ★★★★★
· Book 3: The Fear Institute ★★★★★
· Book 3.1: The House of Gears ★★★★
· Book 3.2: The Death of Me ★★★
· Book 3.3: Ouroboros Ouzo ★★★★
· Book 4: The Brothers Cabal ★★★★

The Way of the Wizard

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