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* WomanScorned: [[spoiler: ''Tandaradei!'' concludes with Monika murdering a man who played with her feelings and planned to offer her PitySex. She rides him in turn - to his death]].
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* WomanScorned: [[spoiler: ''Tandaradei!'' concludes with Monika murdering a man who played with her feelings and planned to offer her PitySex. She rides him in turn - [[DeathByWomanScorned to his death]].death]]]].
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* MagicVersusScience: [[spoiler: The witches are explicitly anti-science and anti-technology faction, to the point a mere horse-drawn two-wheeler is an abomination to them that should be destroyed and never mentioned again]].
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* MagicVersusScience: [[spoiler: The witches from Mischief Creek are explicitly anti-science and anti-technology faction, to the point a mere horse-drawn two-wheeler is an abomination to them that should be destroyed and never mentioned again]].
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler: Jacek from ''Tandaradei!'' dies from a brain haemorrhage, which is chalked up as [[OutWithABang accidental death during orgasm]]. It's an occult murder and while sex was involved, [[SexMagic it played a completely different role]].
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Maladie And Other Stories (''Maladie i inne opowiadania'') is short story collection, composed of all short stories written by Polish writter Creator/AndrzejSapkowski created through his life (more specifically from 1988 to 2007) that weren't part of [[Literature/TheLastWish two]] ''[[Literature/SwordOfDestiny Witcher]]'' anthologies. Released in 2012, the short stories as uncommonly for Sapkowski are mostly fantasy, although he also tackles two other genres - science-fiction and horror. It also consisting of two stories set in [[Franchise/TheWitcher Witcherverse]], but none of them are part of main series (first being a prequel, and second being [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]]). The anthology is essentially a re-release of earlier ''The Road of No Return'' from 2000, with a single new story (''Spanienkreuz'') added to the mix.
* ''The Road Of No Return'' (''Droga z której się nie wraca'', 1988): Prequel story to the Witcher franchise, which follows an female druid Visenne, Geralt's mother and talkative bandit Korin, ''presumably'' Geralt's father ([[ShrugOfGod Sapkowski never confirmed it]]). At first it wasn't supposed to be a part of Witcherverse, but actually Sapkowski's first fantasy novel, but he had to shorten it to an short story format, and later used Visenne as Geralt's mother, making it in fact canon.
* ''Musicians'' (''Muzykanci'', 1990): Sapkowski's very first horror story. It takes place in [[TownwithaDarkSecret unkown small town in Poland]], where [[OccultDetective detective Andrzej Nejman]] investigates case of the bizzare murders taking place, that are somewhat linked to victims gruesomly killing their pets before.
* ''Tandaradei!'' (1992): Second and last of Sapkowski's horror stories. It follows an unhappy, unattractive young woman named Monika which, while isolating herself from society and other people, falls into weird fascination with the Walter von der Vogelweide poem ''Under der linden''.
* ''In the Bomb Funnel'' (''W leju po bombie'', 1993): A satirical science-fiction story set in [[AlternateHistory alternative version of Poland]] where Polish city Suwałki is occupied by German and Lithuanian armies, both fighting with eachother. Story mostly criticizing clergy, radical nationalism and militarism with great dose of [[BlackComedy black humor]].
* ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' (''Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna'', 1993): [[SliceOfLife Non-canon story taking place during Geralt's and Yennefer's wedding preparations]], full of comedic situations and interactions caused by beloved Witcher characters. [[RealLifeWritesthePlot AS wrote it as honoring two very popular fantasy writters and his good friends at that, marrying eachother]], that's why he thinks of the story more as an "typical day at the fantasy convention" than actual Witcher story.
* ''Battle Dust'' (''Bitewny pył'', 1994): More of a joke, than an actual story, ''Battle Dust'' was written by Sapkowski beacuse one of his friends from fantasy convention giving him an idea of writting small part of the bigger story (a space opera at that) as a joke, publishing it in the magazine with heading reading ''Sapkowski ends with fantasy and Witcher cycle to start space opera novel''. [[TrollingCreator And considering it's Sapkowski we are talking about]], he found the idea most delightful.
Maladie And Other Stories (''Maladie i inne opowiadania'') is short story collection, composed of all short stories written by Polish writter Creator/AndrzejSapkowski created through his life (more specifically from 1988 to 2007) that weren't part of [[Literature/TheLastWish two]] ''[[Literature/SwordOfDestiny Witcher]]'' anthologies. Released in 2012, the short stories as uncommonly for Sapkowski are mostly fantasy, although he also tackles two other genres - science-fiction and horror. It also consisting of two stories set in [[Franchise/TheWitcher Witcherverse]], but none of them are part of main series (first being a prequel, and second being [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]]). The anthology is essentially a re-release of earlier ''The Road of No Return'' from 2000, with a single new story (''Spanienkreuz'') added to the mix.
* ''The Road Of No Return'' (''Droga z której się nie wraca'', 1988): Prequel story to the Witcher franchise, which follows an female druid Visenne, Geralt's mother and talkative bandit Korin, ''presumably'' Geralt's father ([[ShrugOfGod Sapkowski never confirmed it]]). At first it wasn't supposed to be a part of Witcherverse, but actually Sapkowski's first fantasy novel, but he had to shorten it to an short story format, and later used Visenne as Geralt's mother, making it in fact canon.
* ''Musicians'' (''Muzykanci'', 1990): Sapkowski's very first horror story. It takes place in [[TownwithaDarkSecret unkown small town in Poland]], where [[OccultDetective detective Andrzej Nejman]] investigates case of the bizzare murders taking place, that are somewhat linked to victims gruesomly killing their pets before.
* ''Tandaradei!'' (1992): Second and last of Sapkowski's horror stories. It follows an unhappy, unattractive young woman named Monika which, while isolating herself from society and other people, falls into weird fascination with the Walter von der Vogelweide poem ''Under der linden''.
* ''In the Bomb Funnel'' (''W leju po bombie'', 1993): A satirical science-fiction story set in [[AlternateHistory alternative version of Poland]] where Polish city Suwałki is occupied by German and Lithuanian armies, both fighting with eachother. Story mostly criticizing clergy, radical nationalism and militarism with great dose of [[BlackComedy black humor]].
* ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' (''Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna'', 1993): [[SliceOfLife Non-canon story taking place during Geralt's and Yennefer's wedding preparations]], full of comedic situations and interactions caused by beloved Witcher characters. [[RealLifeWritesthePlot AS wrote it as honoring two very popular fantasy writters and his good friends at that, marrying eachother]], that's why he thinks of the story more as an "typical day at the fantasy convention" than actual Witcher story.
* ''Battle Dust'' (''Bitewny pył'', 1994): More of a joke, than an actual story, ''Battle Dust'' was written by Sapkowski beacuse one of his friends from fantasy convention giving him an idea of writting small part of the bigger story (a space opera at that) as a joke, publishing it in the magazine with heading reading ''Sapkowski ends with fantasy and Witcher cycle to start space opera novel''. [[TrollingCreator And considering it's Sapkowski we are talking about]], he found the idea most delightful.
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MaladieAnd and Other Stories (''Maladie i inne opowiadania'') is a short story collection, collection composed of all short stories written by Polish writter Creator/AndrzejSapkowski writer Creator/AndrzejSapkowski, created through his life (more specifically from 1988 to 2007) that weren't part of [[Literature/TheLastWish two]] ''[[Literature/SwordOfDestiny Witcher]]'' anthologies. Released in 2012, the short stories as uncommonly for Sapkowski are mostly fantasy, although he also tackles two other genres - science-fiction and horror. It also consisting consists of two stories set in the [[Franchise/TheWitcher Witcherverse]], but none of them are part of the main series (first being a prequel, and the second being a [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]]). The anthology is essentially a re-release of earlier ''The Road of No Return'' from 2000, with a single new story (''Spanienkreuz'') added to the mix.
* ''The RoadOf of No Return'' (''Droga z której się nie wraca'', 1988): Prequel story to the Witcher franchise, which follows an a female druid Visenne, Geralt's mother and talkative bandit Korin, ''presumably'' Geralt's father ([[ShrugOfGod Sapkowski never confirmed it]]). At first first, it wasn't supposed to be a part of the Witcherverse, but actually part of Sapkowski's first fantasy novel, but novel - until he had to shorten it to an short a story format, format and later used Visenne as Geralt's mother, making it in fact canon.
ultimately part of the Witcher canon.
* ''Musicians'' (''Muzykanci'', 1990): Sapkowski's very first horror story. It takes place in [[TownwithaDarkSecret unkown small town in Poland]], where [[OccultDetective detective Andrzej Nejman]] investigates the case of thebizzare bizarre murders taking place, that are somewhat linked to victims gruesomly gruesomely killing their pets before.
before.
* ''Tandaradei!'' (1992):Second and last of Sapkowski's Another horror stories. story. It follows an unhappy, unattractive young woman named Monika which, while isolating herself from society and other people, falls into a weird fascination with the Walter von der Vogelweide poem ''Under der linden''.
Linden''.
* ''In the Bomb Funnel'' (''W leju po bombie'', 1993): A satirical science-fiction story set in [[AlternateHistory alternative version of Poland]] where Polish city Suwałki is occupied by German and Lithuanian armies, both fighting witheachother. Story each other. The story mostly criticizing criticises clergy, radical nationalism and militarism with a great dose of [[BlackComedy black humor]].
humour]].
* ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' (''Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna'', 1993): [[SliceOfLife Non-canon story taking place during Geralt's and Yennefer's wedding preparations]], full of comedic situations and interactions caused by beloved Witcher characters. [[RealLifeWritesthePlot AS wrote it ashonoring honouring two very popular fantasy writters writers and his good friends at that, marrying eachother]], each other]], that's why he thinks of the story more as an a "typical day at the fantasy convention" than an actual Witcher story.
* ''Battle Dust''(''Bitewny pył'', 1994): (1994): More of a joke, than an actual story, ''Battle Dust'' was written by Sapkowski beacuse because one of his friends from fantasy convention giving gave him an the idea of writting writing a small part of the bigger story (a space opera at that) as a joke, challenge of sorts. They ended up publishing it in the a fantasy magazine with the heading reading ''Sapkowski ends with fantasy and Witcher cycle to start a space opera novel''. [[TrollingCreator And considering it's Sapkowski we are talking about]], about here]], he found the idea most delightful.
Maladie
* ''The Road
* ''Musicians'' (''Muzykanci'', 1990): Sapkowski's very first horror story. It takes place in [[TownwithaDarkSecret unkown small town in Poland]], where [[OccultDetective detective Andrzej Nejman]] investigates the case of the
* ''Tandaradei!'' (1992):
* ''In the Bomb Funnel'' (''W leju po bombie'', 1993): A satirical science-fiction story set in [[AlternateHistory alternative version of Poland]] where Polish city Suwałki is occupied by German and Lithuanian armies, both fighting with
* ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' (''Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna'', 1993): [[SliceOfLife Non-canon story taking place during Geralt's and Yennefer's wedding preparations]], full of comedic situations and interactions caused by beloved Witcher characters. [[RealLifeWritesthePlot AS wrote it as
* ''Battle Dust''
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* ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' (''Zdarzenie w Mischief Creek'', 2000): Combination of horror, fantasy and crime story, it's set during infamous [[WitchHunt Salem's witch trials]] and following group of men, being led by [[SinisterMinister fanatical reverend]] in search of a girl accused of being a witch.
* ''Spanienkreuz'': By far shortest (beacuse being only 5 pages long!) story set in late 30s in [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazi Germany]], dealing with Nazi war crimes during [[UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar Spanish Civil War]]. Published in 2007 with also being Sapkowski's first short story that wasn't published in Poland at first, but in Spain instead.
* ''Spanienkreuz'': By far shortest (beacuse being only 5 pages long!) story set in late 30s in [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazi Germany]], dealing with Nazi war crimes during [[UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar Spanish Civil War]]. Published in 2007 with also being Sapkowski's first short story that wasn't published in Poland at first, but in Spain instead.
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* ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' (''Zdarzenie w Mischief Creek'', 2000): Combination A combination of horror, fantasy and crime story, it's set during infamous [[WitchHunt Salem's witch trials]] and following follows a group of men, being led by a [[SinisterMinister fanatical reverend]] in search of a girl accused of being a witch.
* ''Spanienkreuz'': By far the shortest(beacuse being (because it's only 5 pages long!) story set in the late 30s in [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazi Germany]], dealing with Nazi war crimes during [[UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar Spanish Civil War]]. Published in 2007 with 2007, it was also being Sapkowski's first short story that wasn't published in Poland at first, first but in Spain instead.
* ''Spanienkreuz'': By far the shortest
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* DolledUpInstallment: ''The Road of No Return'' started as its own thing, until Sapkowski changed his mind and declared it part of the Witcherverse. It most definitely doesn't work as part of the setting, but given the author's attitude towards such things as "canon" or even "setting", it's hardly surprising.
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* DolledUpInstallment: ''The Road of No Return'' started as its own thing, until Sapkowski changed his mind and declared it part of BilingualDialogue: The women from Mischief Creek speak English. The lumberjacks that live with them speak Dutch. Both parties speak their respective languages all the Witcherverse. It most definitely doesn't work as part of time, but communicate without a hitch. [[spoiler: That's because the setting, but given women are using magic to command the author's attitude towards such things as "canon" or even "setting", it's hardly surprising.men]].
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* EldritchAbomination: Both horror stories have them in some way or another, which should not be suprising considering the fact that Sapkowski regards Creator/HPLovecraft as one of the best when it comes to horror and writting as a whole and his [[Franchise/TheWitcher other]] [[Literature/HussiteTrilogy works]] have some [[ShoutOut lovecraftian referencess]].
** The ''Musicians'' have [[OurDemonsAreDifferent weird demonic beings, mostly known as veehals]], who [[spoiler: kill people who abuse or kill their pets]]. They come in different shapes and form, sometimes manifesting as victim's worst fear or formeless mass of darkness. The worst of them is presumably ''krostowaty'' (which in translation literally means ''The Pustular One'') who despite being described as classic monster (giant claws and teeth) is said to look so horrifying, it drives two people (a young girl and a scientist) [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insane]].
** The ''Tandaradei!''
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''The Road Of No Return'', considering it was second Sapkowski's short story and at first it wasn't supposed to be set in ''Witcher'' universe have some elements of this. Visenna is said to be a part of Mayena Circle of Druids, and while druids aren't uncommon in later ''Witcher'' stories, they're mostly a part of isolated organizations, mostly trying to preserve nature and endangered species, but here the druid circle is said to be a powerful organizations of all magic users alike, pulling strings behind the scenes. All those traits would later be attached to the Lodge of Sorceresses and Brotherhood of Sorcerers. Also both mention two non-human races, [[LizardFolk vrans]] and [[BeastMen werebbubbs]] that would later never again appear in the ''Witcher'' cycle. Although the latter can be perfectly explainable - we don't know the exact date of this short story events so it can be explained as being a long time ago, where both vrans and werebbubbs weren't driven to an extinction.
* EnemyMine: ''Everyone'' from ''The Road Of No Return'' bands together against koshchey - including people who were fighting each other mere moments ago.
* SliceOfLife: ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' is basically this to whole ''Witcher'' saga, novels and short stories alike. It's mostly lighthearted and comedic situations between Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri, Dandelion and many, many more beloved ''Witcher'' characters getting their spotlight here and there.
* ViewersAreGeniuses: How familiar are you with details on Nazi involvement in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar? What about Imperial Germany and its colonial exploits? Because good luck registering half of the plot, references and details from ''Spanienkreuz'' without at least a cursory knowledge, reducing the story to "bombing Guernica was bad".
** The ''Musicians'' have [[OurDemonsAreDifferent weird demonic beings, mostly known as veehals]], who [[spoiler: kill people who abuse or kill their pets]]. They come in different shapes and form, sometimes manifesting as victim's worst fear or formeless mass of darkness. The worst of them is presumably ''krostowaty'' (which in translation literally means ''The Pustular One'') who despite being described as classic monster (giant claws and teeth) is said to look so horrifying, it drives two people (a young girl and a scientist) [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insane]].
** The ''Tandaradei!''
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''The Road Of No Return'', considering it was second Sapkowski's short story and at first it wasn't supposed to be set in ''Witcher'' universe have some elements of this. Visenna is said to be a part of Mayena Circle of Druids, and while druids aren't uncommon in later ''Witcher'' stories, they're mostly a part of isolated organizations, mostly trying to preserve nature and endangered species, but here the druid circle is said to be a powerful organizations of all magic users alike, pulling strings behind the scenes. All those traits would later be attached to the Lodge of Sorceresses and Brotherhood of Sorcerers. Also both mention two non-human races, [[LizardFolk vrans]] and [[BeastMen werebbubbs]] that would later never again appear in the ''Witcher'' cycle. Although the latter can be perfectly explainable - we don't know the exact date of this short story events so it can be explained as being a long time ago, where both vrans and werebbubbs weren't driven to an extinction.
* EnemyMine: ''Everyone'' from ''The Road Of No Return'' bands together against koshchey - including people who were fighting each other mere moments ago.
* SliceOfLife: ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' is basically this to whole ''Witcher'' saga, novels and short stories alike. It's mostly lighthearted and comedic situations between Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri, Dandelion and many, many more beloved ''Witcher'' characters getting their spotlight here and there.
* ViewersAreGeniuses: How familiar are you with details on Nazi involvement in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar? What about Imperial Germany and its colonial exploits? Because good luck registering half of the plot, references and details from ''Spanienkreuz'' without at least a cursory knowledge, reducing the story to "bombing Guernica was bad".
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* CatsAreMagic: They tend to detect magic, the supernatural and evil.
* DolledUpInstallment: ''The Road of No Return'' started as its own thing, until Sapkowski changed his mind and declared it part of the Witcherverse. It most definitely doesn't work as part of the setting, but given the author's attitude towards such things as "canon" or even "setting", it's hardly surprising.
* EldritchAbomination: Both horror stories have them in some way or another, which should not besuprising surprising considering the fact that Sapkowski regards Creator/HPLovecraft as one of the best when it comes to horror and writting writing as a whole whole, and his [[Franchise/TheWitcher other]] [[Literature/HussiteTrilogy works]] have some [[ShoutOut lovecraftian referencess]].
references]].
** The ''Musicians'' have [[OurDemonsAreDifferent weird demonic beings, mostly known as veehals]], who [[spoiler: kill people who abuse or kill their pets]]. They come in different shapes andform, forms, sometimes manifesting as the victim's worst fear or formeless a formless mass of darkness. The worst of them is presumably ''krostowaty'' (which in translation literally means ''The Pustular One'') who who, despite being described as a classic monster (giant claws and teeth) teeth), is said to look so horrifying, it drives two people (a young girl and a scientist) [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insane]].
** The''Tandaradei!''
''Tandaradei!'' has an ancient, evil force that has no actual form, but is eager to corrupt anyone it can.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''The RoadOf of No Return'', considering it was second Sapkowski's second short story and at first it wasn't supposed to be set in the ''Witcher'' universe have universe, has some elements of this. Visenna is said to be a part of the Mayena Circle of Druids, and while druids aren't uncommon in later ''Witcher'' stories, they're mostly a part of isolated organizations, groups, mostly trying to preserve nature and endangered species, but here the druid circle is said to be a powerful organizations organisation of all magic users alike, pulling strings behind the scenes. All those traits would later be attached to the Lodge of Sorceresses and Brotherhood of Sorcerers. Also Also, both mention two non-human races, [[LizardFolk vrans]] and [[BeastMen werebbubbs]] that would later never again appear in the ''Witcher'' cycle. Although the latter can be perfectly explainable - we don't know the exact date of this the short story events story's events, so it can be explained as being a long time ago, where both vrans and werebbubbs weren't driven to an extinction.
* EnemyMine: ''Everyone'' from ''The RoadOf of No Return'' bands together against koshchey - including people who were fighting each other mere moments ago.
* EvilDetectingDog: Evil-detecting animals are omni-present in the anthology, with ''Battle Dust'' being the sole exception. Most of those animals are cats. On top of that, ''Musicians'' is an entire story about those, since it's a FracturedFairyTale version of ''Literature/TheBremenTownMusicians''.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Inverted in ''Tandaradei!''. Monika is described as [[InsistentTerminology unattractive]], [[spoiler: and becomes smoking hot in the end after being corrupted into TheVamp]].
* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler: ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' pits a SinisterMinister on a frenzied witch-hunt against actual, real witches, with everyone else caught in the crossfire]].
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: It is Sapkowski, after all. And keep in mind that most of the stories where this happens were created in the early 90s, when the vast majority of Poles knew no second language:
** ''In the Bomb Funnel'' uses song lyrics in English in a LampshadeHanging manner.
** ''Battle Dust'' came out with the English title, rather than a Polish one, as part of the general ploy to up-sell its "otherness" and out-of-genre experience for Sapkowski - and the elaborate trolling that went with pretending it's a teaser of the upcoming novel. Song lyrics are again left untranslated.
** There is a ''lot'' of untranslated German spread around in ''Tandaradei!'', not just with the ''Under der Linden'' song that keeps returning.
** ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' gives us a few lines of (mangled) Dutch.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Frances Flowers insists that this is America, the New World, a place where roads and vehicles will never be able to conquer the space of the primaeval, endless forests. She does it in a really smug and self-assured way.
* MagicVersusScience: [[spoiler: The witches are explicitly anti-science and anti-technology faction, to the point a mere horse-drawn two-wheeler is an abomination to them that should be destroyed and never mentioned again]].
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler: Jacek from ''Tandaradei!'' dies from a brain haemorrhage, which is chalked up as [[OutWithABang accidental death during orgasm]]. It's an occult murder and while sex was involved, [[SexMagic it played a completely different role]].
* MultinationalTeam: The crew from ''Battle Dust'' is from all over the Earth, with their nationality being either explicitly brought up or simply implied.
* NerdGlasses: Monika from ''Tandaradei!'' wears a pair of really thick ones, only adding to her unattractiveness.
* OurWitchesAreDifferent:
** ''Tandaradei!'' has the old village sage, who might or might not be an actual witch, but either way is apt with occult subjects and folk beliefs.
** [[spoiler: The women of Mischief Creek are a cabal of proto-Wiccan witches that ''claim'' to be all about healing and the betterment of the world, but their actions are those of petty, monstrous people that lay DisproportionateRetribution on anyone that crosses their path and think nothing about brainwashing people into their loyal slaves. There are implications for the Goddess they serve as the source of their powers from, too]].
* RightForTheWrongReasons: The Puritans from ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' are after a woman accused of witchcraft and are snooping around the titular settlement, suspecting foul magic at play. [[spoiler: The local female population is made out of actual witches, and the only exception is the poor woman they were chasing after]].
* SexMagic:
** [[spoiler: Monika uses it [[OutWithABang in a very literal way]] to kill Jacek in the end of ''Tandaradei!'']].
** [[spoiler: The witches from ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' got the Dutch under their thrall, and try to use it later on the party of English that barge into their "domain"]], with a heavy dose of DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale.
* SliceOfLife: ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' is basically thisto for the whole ''Witcher'' saga, novels and short stories alike. It's mostly lighthearted and comedic situations between Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri, Dandelion Dandelion, and many, many more beloved ''Witcher'' characters getting their spotlight here and there.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: ''Battle Dust'' ends with the main character being the last man standing and swearing revange over the deaths of his camrades and love interest]].
* SpaceOpera: ''Battle Dust'' is a rather brutal deconstruction, since the ongoing conflict is portrayed as WarIsHell, rather than a cheery escapade full of heroics and disposable mooks.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: Monika from ''Tandaradei!'' finds a small library of those early in the story. [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity It doesn't end well for her]].
* ViewersAreGeniuses: How familiar are you with details on Nazi involvement in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar? What about Imperial Germany and its colonial exploits? Because good luck registering half of the plot, references and details from ''Spanienkreuz'' without at leasta cursory knowledge, reducing the story to "bombing Guernica was bad".
* DolledUpInstallment: ''The Road of No Return'' started as its own thing, until Sapkowski changed his mind and declared it part of the Witcherverse. It most definitely doesn't work as part of the setting, but given the author's attitude towards such things as "canon" or even "setting", it's hardly surprising.
* EldritchAbomination: Both horror stories have them in some way or another, which should not be
** The ''Musicians'' have [[OurDemonsAreDifferent weird demonic beings, mostly known as veehals]], who [[spoiler: kill people who abuse or kill their pets]]. They come in different shapes and
** The
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''The Road
* EnemyMine: ''Everyone'' from ''The Road
* EvilDetectingDog: Evil-detecting animals are omni-present in the anthology, with ''Battle Dust'' being the sole exception. Most of those animals are cats. On top of that, ''Musicians'' is an entire story about those, since it's a FracturedFairyTale version of ''Literature/TheBremenTownMusicians''.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Inverted in ''Tandaradei!''. Monika is described as [[InsistentTerminology unattractive]], [[spoiler: and becomes smoking hot in the end after being corrupted into TheVamp]].
* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler: ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' pits a SinisterMinister on a frenzied witch-hunt against actual, real witches, with everyone else caught in the crossfire]].
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: It is Sapkowski, after all. And keep in mind that most of the stories where this happens were created in the early 90s, when the vast majority of Poles knew no second language:
** ''In the Bomb Funnel'' uses song lyrics in English in a LampshadeHanging manner.
** ''Battle Dust'' came out with the English title, rather than a Polish one, as part of the general ploy to up-sell its "otherness" and out-of-genre experience for Sapkowski - and the elaborate trolling that went with pretending it's a teaser of the upcoming novel. Song lyrics are again left untranslated.
** There is a ''lot'' of untranslated German spread around in ''Tandaradei!'', not just with the ''Under der Linden'' song that keeps returning.
** ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' gives us a few lines of (mangled) Dutch.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Frances Flowers insists that this is America, the New World, a place where roads and vehicles will never be able to conquer the space of the primaeval, endless forests. She does it in a really smug and self-assured way.
* MagicVersusScience: [[spoiler: The witches are explicitly anti-science and anti-technology faction, to the point a mere horse-drawn two-wheeler is an abomination to them that should be destroyed and never mentioned again]].
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler: Jacek from ''Tandaradei!'' dies from a brain haemorrhage, which is chalked up as [[OutWithABang accidental death during orgasm]]. It's an occult murder and while sex was involved, [[SexMagic it played a completely different role]].
* MultinationalTeam: The crew from ''Battle Dust'' is from all over the Earth, with their nationality being either explicitly brought up or simply implied.
* NerdGlasses: Monika from ''Tandaradei!'' wears a pair of really thick ones, only adding to her unattractiveness.
* OurWitchesAreDifferent:
** ''Tandaradei!'' has the old village sage, who might or might not be an actual witch, but either way is apt with occult subjects and folk beliefs.
** [[spoiler: The women of Mischief Creek are a cabal of proto-Wiccan witches that ''claim'' to be all about healing and the betterment of the world, but their actions are those of petty, monstrous people that lay DisproportionateRetribution on anyone that crosses their path and think nothing about brainwashing people into their loyal slaves. There are implications for the Goddess they serve as the source of their powers from, too]].
* RightForTheWrongReasons: The Puritans from ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' are after a woman accused of witchcraft and are snooping around the titular settlement, suspecting foul magic at play. [[spoiler: The local female population is made out of actual witches, and the only exception is the poor woman they were chasing after]].
* SexMagic:
** [[spoiler: Monika uses it [[OutWithABang in a very literal way]] to kill Jacek in the end of ''Tandaradei!'']].
** [[spoiler: The witches from ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' got the Dutch under their thrall, and try to use it later on the party of English that barge into their "domain"]], with a heavy dose of DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale.
* SliceOfLife: ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' is basically this
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: ''Battle Dust'' ends with the main character being the last man standing and swearing revange over the deaths of his camrades and love interest]].
* SpaceOpera: ''Battle Dust'' is a rather brutal deconstruction, since the ongoing conflict is portrayed as WarIsHell, rather than a cheery escapade full of heroics and disposable mooks.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: Monika from ''Tandaradei!'' finds a small library of those early in the story. [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity It doesn't end well for her]].
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** ''Spanienkreuz'' is about the Spanish Civil War, from the point of view of a Nazi ace pilot, who's job was to strafe civilians and bomb non-military targets and who thinks nothing about it.
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** ''Spanienkreuz'' is about the Spanish Civil War, from the point of view of a Nazi ace pilot, who's whose job was to strafe civilians and bomb non-military targets and who thinks nothing about it.
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* WomanScorned: [[spoiler: ''Tandaradei!'' concludes with Monika murdering a man who played with her feelings and planned to offer her PitySex. She rides him in turn - to his death]].
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: How familiar are you with details on Nazi involvement in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar? What about Imperial Germany and its colonial exploits? Because good luck registering half of the plot and its details from ''Spanienkreuz'' without at least a cursory knowledge.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: How familiar are you with details on Nazi involvement in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar? What about Imperial Germany and its colonial exploits? Because good luck registering half of the plot plot, references and its details from ''Spanienkreuz'' without at least a cursory knowledge.knowledge, reducing the story to "bombing Guernica was bad".
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* ''In The Bomb Funnel'' (''W leju po bombie'', 1993): A satirical science-fiction story set in [[AlternateHistory alternative version of Poland]] where Polish city Suwałki is occupied by German and Lithuanian armies, both fighting with eachother. Story mostly criticizing clergy, radical nationalism and militarism with great dose of [[BlackComedy black humor]].
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* ''In The the Bomb Funnel'' (''W leju po bombie'', 1993): A satirical science-fiction story set in [[AlternateHistory alternative version of Poland]] where Polish city Suwałki is occupied by German and Lithuanian armies, both fighting with eachother. Story mostly criticizing clergy, radical nationalism and militarism with great dose of [[BlackComedy black humor]].
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* AuthorAppeal: Cats. They are everywhere. And they are cool. Way cooler than anything else.
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* EnemyMine: ''Everyone'' from ''The Road Of No Return'' bands together against koshchey - including people who were fighting each other mere moments ago.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: How familiar are you with details on Nazi involvement in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar? What about Imperial Germany and its colonial exploits? Because good luck registering half of the plot and its details from ''Spanienkreuz'' without at least a cursory knowledge.
* WarIsHell: One of the recurring themes of the anthology:
** ''In the Bomb Funnel'' is [[WriterOnBoard quite openly]] about disdain for jingoism and how all wars are achieving is destruction and ruining lives of people, no matter what the official slogans and reasons are.
** ''Spanienkreuz'' is about the Spanish Civil War, from the point of view of a Nazi ace pilot, who's job was to strafe civilians and bomb non-military targets and who thinks nothing about it.
** ''Battle Dust'', despite on a surface level being a cheery SpaceOpera, is about a pointless, corporate space war fought for the margin, while everyone sans the main character dies in a gruesome way.
* WarIsHell: One of the recurring themes of the anthology:
** ''In the Bomb Funnel'' is [[WriterOnBoard quite openly]] about disdain for jingoism and how all wars are achieving is destruction and ruining lives of people, no matter what the official slogans and reasons are.
** ''Spanienkreuz'' is about the Spanish Civil War, from the point of view of a Nazi ace pilot, who's job was to strafe civilians and bomb non-military targets and who thinks nothing about it.
** ''Battle Dust'', despite on a surface level being a cheery SpaceOpera, is about a pointless, corporate space war fought for the margin, while everyone sans the main character dies in a gruesome way.
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* ''Golden Afternoon'' (''Złote popołudnie'', 1999): Fantasy short story taking place during [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland]] events, being this time told from Cheshire Cat's perspective. Full of [[DeconstructorFleet deconstructions]], [[TakeThat taking a piss at all try-hard "adult" interpretations of Alice's story]] and Sapkowski's playground of showing his [[AuthorAppeal affection and admiration towards cats, if you haven't figured it out already]].
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* ''Golden Afternoon'' (''Złote popołudnie'', 1999): Fantasy short story taking place during [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland]] ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' events, being this time told from Cheshire Cat's perspective. Full of [[DeconstructorFleet deconstructions]], [[TakeThat taking a piss at all try-hard "adult" interpretations of Alice's story]] and Sapkowski's playground of showing his [[AuthorAppeal affection and admiration towards cats, if you haven't figured it out already]].
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* ''Battle Dust'' (''Bitewny pył, 1994''): More of a joke, than an actual story, ''Battle Dust'' was written by Sapkowski beacuse one of his friends from fantasy convention giving him an idea of writting small part of the bigger story (a space opera at that) as a joke, publishing it in the magazine with heading reading ''Sapkowski ends with fantasy and Witcher cycle to start space opera novel''. [[TrollingCreator And considering it's Sapkowski we are talking about]], he found the idea most delightful.
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* ''Battle Dust'' (''Bitewny pył, 1994''): pył'', 1994): More of a joke, than an actual story, ''Battle Dust'' was written by Sapkowski beacuse one of his friends from fantasy convention giving him an idea of writting small part of the bigger story (a space opera at that) as a joke, publishing it in the magazine with heading reading ''Sapkowski ends with fantasy and Witcher cycle to start space opera novel''. [[TrollingCreator And considering it's Sapkowski we are talking about]], he found the idea most delightful.
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* ''The Road Of No Return'' (''Droga z której się nie wraca, 1988''): Prequel story to the Witcher franchise, which follows an female druid Visenne, Geralt's mother and talkative bandit Korin, ''presumably'' Geralt's father ([[ShrugOfGod Sapkowski never confirmed it]]). At first it wasn't supposed to be a part of Witcherverse, but actually Sapkowski's first fantasy novel, but he had to shorten it to an short story format, and later used Visenne as Geralt's mother, making it in fact canon.
* ''Musicians'' (''Muzykanci, 1990''): Sapkowski's very first horror story. It takes place in [[TownwithaDarkSecret unkown small town in Poland]], where [[OccultDetective detective Andrzej Nejman]] investigates case of the bizzare murders taking place, that are somewhat linked to victims gruesomly killing their pets before.
* ''Musicians'' (''Muzykanci, 1990''): Sapkowski's very first horror story. It takes place in [[TownwithaDarkSecret unkown small town in Poland]], where [[OccultDetective detective Andrzej Nejman]] investigates case of the bizzare murders taking place, that are somewhat linked to victims gruesomly killing their pets before.
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* ''The Road Of No Return'' (''Droga z której się nie wraca, 1988''): wraca'', 1988): Prequel story to the Witcher franchise, which follows an female druid Visenne, Geralt's mother and talkative bandit Korin, ''presumably'' Geralt's father ([[ShrugOfGod Sapkowski never confirmed it]]). At first it wasn't supposed to be a part of Witcherverse, but actually Sapkowski's first fantasy novel, but he had to shorten it to an short story format, and later used Visenne as Geralt's mother, making it in fact canon.
* ''Musicians''(''Muzykanci, 1990''): (''Muzykanci'', 1990): Sapkowski's very first horror story. It takes place in [[TownwithaDarkSecret unkown small town in Poland]], where [[OccultDetective detective Andrzej Nejman]] investigates case of the bizzare murders taking place, that are somewhat linked to victims gruesomly killing their pets before.
* ''Musicians''
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* ''In The Bomb Funnel'' (''W leju po bombie, 1993''): A satirical science-fiction story set in [[AlternateHistory alternative version of Poland]] where Polish city Suwałki is occupied by German and Lithuanian armies, both fighting with eachother. Story mostly criticizing clergy, radical nationalism and militarism with great dose of [[BlackComedy black humor]].
* ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' (''Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna, 1993''): [[SliceOfLife Non-canon story taking place during Geralt's and Yennefer's wedding preparations]], full of comedic situations and interactions caused by beloved Witcher characters. [[RealLifeWritesthePlot AS wrote it as honoring two very popular fantasy writters and his good friends at that, marrying eachother]], that's why he thinks of the story more as an "typical day at the fantasy convention" than actual Witcher story.
* ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' (''Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna, 1993''): [[SliceOfLife Non-canon story taking place during Geralt's and Yennefer's wedding preparations]], full of comedic situations and interactions caused by beloved Witcher characters. [[RealLifeWritesthePlot AS wrote it as honoring two very popular fantasy writters and his good friends at that, marrying eachother]], that's why he thinks of the story more as an "typical day at the fantasy convention" than actual Witcher story.
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* ''In The Bomb Funnel'' (''W leju po bombie, 1993''): bombie'', 1993): A satirical science-fiction story set in [[AlternateHistory alternative version of Poland]] where Polish city Suwałki is occupied by German and Lithuanian armies, both fighting with eachother. Story mostly criticizing clergy, radical nationalism and militarism with great dose of [[BlackComedy black humor]].
* ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' (''Coś się kończy, coś sięzaczyna, 1993''): zaczyna'', 1993): [[SliceOfLife Non-canon story taking place during Geralt's and Yennefer's wedding preparations]], full of comedic situations and interactions caused by beloved Witcher characters. [[RealLifeWritesthePlot AS wrote it as honoring two very popular fantasy writters and his good friends at that, marrying eachother]], that's why he thinks of the story more as an "typical day at the fantasy convention" than actual Witcher story.
* ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' (''Coś się kończy, coś się
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* ''Golden Afternoon'' (''Złote popołudnie, 1999''): Fantasy short story taking place during [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland]] events, being this time told from Cheshire Cat's perspective. Full of [[DeconstructorFleet deconstructions]], [[TakeThat taking a piss at all try-hard "adult" interpretations of Alice's story]] and Sapkowski's playground of showing his [[AuthorAppeal affection and admiration towards cats, if you haven't figured it out already]].
* ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' (''Zdarzenie w Mischief Creek, 2000''): Combination of horror, fantasy and crime story, it's set during infamous [[WitchHunt Salem's witch trials]] and following group of men, being led by [[SinisterMinister fanatical reverend]] in search of a girl accused of being a witch.
* ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' (''Zdarzenie w Mischief Creek, 2000''): Combination of horror, fantasy and crime story, it's set during infamous [[WitchHunt Salem's witch trials]] and following group of men, being led by [[SinisterMinister fanatical reverend]] in search of a girl accused of being a witch.
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* ''Golden Afternoon'' (''Złote popołudnie, 1999''): popołudnie'', 1999): Fantasy short story taking place during [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland]] events, being this time told from Cheshire Cat's perspective. Full of [[DeconstructorFleet deconstructions]], [[TakeThat taking a piss at all try-hard "adult" interpretations of Alice's story]] and Sapkowski's playground of showing his [[AuthorAppeal affection and admiration towards cats, if you haven't figured it out already]].
* ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' (''Zdarzenie w MischiefCreek, 2000''): Creek'', 2000): Combination of horror, fantasy and crime story, it's set during infamous [[WitchHunt Salem's witch trials]] and following group of men, being led by [[SinisterMinister fanatical reverend]] in search of a girl accused of being a witch.
* ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' (''Zdarzenie w Mischief
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* SliceOfLife: ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' is basically this to whole Witcher saga, novels and short stories alike. It's mostly lighthearted and comedic situations between Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri, Dandelion and many, many more beloved Witcher characters getting their spotlight here and there.
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* SliceOfLife: ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' is basically this to whole Witcher ''Witcher'' saga, novels and short stories alike. It's mostly lighthearted and comedic situations between Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri, Dandelion and many, many more beloved Witcher ''Witcher'' characters getting their spotlight here and there.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''The Road Of No Return'', considering it was second Sapkowski's short story and at first it wasn't supposed to be set in Witcher universe have some elements of this. Visenna is said to be a part of Mayena Circle of Druids, and while druids aren't uncommon in later Witcher stories, they're mostly a part of isolated organizations, mostly trying to preserve nature and endangered species, but here the druid circle is said to be a powerful organizations of all magic users alike, pulling strings behind the scenes. All those traits would later be attached to the Lodge of Sorceresses and Brotherhood of Sorcerers. Also both mention two non-human races, [[LizardFolk vrans]] and [[BeastMen werebbubbs]] that would later never appear in the Witcher cycle never again. Although the latter can be perfectly explainable - we don't know the exact date of this short story events so it can be explained as being old time ago, where both vrans and werebbubbs weren't driven to an extinction.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''The Road Of No Return'', considering it was second Sapkowski's short story and at first it wasn't supposed to be set in Witcher ''Witcher'' universe have some elements of this. Visenna is said to be a part of Mayena Circle of Druids, and while druids aren't uncommon in later Witcher ''Witcher'' stories, they're mostly a part of isolated organizations, mostly trying to preserve nature and endangered species, but here the druid circle is said to be a powerful organizations of all magic users alike, pulling strings behind the scenes. All those traits would later be attached to the Lodge of Sorceresses and Brotherhood of Sorcerers. Also both mention two non-human races, [[LizardFolk vrans]] and [[BeastMen werebbubbs]] that would later never again appear in the Witcher cycle never again. ''Witcher'' cycle. Although the latter can be perfectly explainable - we don't know the exact date of this short story events so it can be explained as being old being a long time ago, where both vrans and werebbubbs weren't driven to an extinction.
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Maladie And Other Stories (''Maladie i inne opowiadania'') is short story collection, composed of all short stories written by Polish writter Creator/AndrzejSapkowski created through his life (more specifically from 1988 to 2007) that weren't part of [[Literature/TheLastWish two]] [[Literature/SwordOfDestiny ''Witcher'']] anthologies. Released in 2012, the short stories as uncommonly for Sapkowski are mostly fantasy, although he also tackles two other genres - science-fiction and horror. It also consisting of two stories set in [[Franchise/TheWitcher Witcherverse]], but none of them are part of main series (first being a prequel, and second being [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]]). The anthology is essentially a re-release of earlier ''The Road of No Return'' from 2000, with a single new story (''Spanienkreuz'') added to the mix.
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Maladie And Other Stories (''Maladie i inne opowiadania'') is short story collection, composed of all short stories written by Polish writter Creator/AndrzejSapkowski created through his life (more specifically from 1988 to 2007) that weren't part of [[Literature/TheLastWish two]] [[Literature/SwordOfDestiny ''Witcher'']] ''[[Literature/SwordOfDestiny Witcher]]'' anthologies. Released in 2012, the short stories as uncommonly for Sapkowski are mostly fantasy, although he also tackles two other genres - science-fiction and horror. It also consisting of two stories set in [[Franchise/TheWitcher Witcherverse]], but none of them are part of main series (first being a prequel, and second being [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]]). The anthology is essentially a re-release of earlier ''The Road of No Return'' from 2000, with a single new story (''Spanienkreuz'') added to the mix.
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Maladie And Other Stories (''Maladie i inne opowiadania'') is short story collection, composed of all short stories written by Polish writter Creator/AndrzejSapkowski created through his life (more specifically from 1988 to 2007) that weren't part of [[Literature/TheLastWish two]] [[Literature/SwordOfDestiny Witcher anthologies]]. Released in 2012, the short stories as uncommonly for Sapkowski are mostly fantasy, although he also tackles two other genres - science-fiction and horror. It also consisting of two stories set in [[Franchise/TheWitcher Witcherverse]], but none of them are part of main series (first being a prequel, and second being [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]]). The anthology is essentially a re-release of earlier ''The Road of No Return'' from 2000, with a single new story (''Spanienkreuz'') added to the mix.
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Maladie And Other Stories (''Maladie i inne opowiadania'') is short story collection, composed of all short stories written by Polish writter Creator/AndrzejSapkowski created through his life (more specifically from 1988 to 2007) that weren't part of [[Literature/TheLastWish two]] [[Literature/SwordOfDestiny Witcher anthologies]].''Witcher'']] anthologies. Released in 2012, the short stories as uncommonly for Sapkowski are mostly fantasy, although he also tackles two other genres - science-fiction and horror. It also consisting of two stories set in [[Franchise/TheWitcher Witcherverse]], but none of them are part of main series (first being a prequel, and second being [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]]). The anthology is essentially a re-release of earlier ''The Road of No Return'' from 2000, with a single new story (''Spanienkreuz'') added to the mix.
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I suggest splitting it story-by-story, because there is a lot of ground to cover here
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Maladie And Other Stories (''Maladie i inne opowiadania'') is short story collection, composed of all short stories written by Polish writter Creator/AndrzejSapkowski created through his life (more specifically from 1988 to 2007) that weren't part of [[Literature/TheLastWish two]] [[Literature/SwordOfDestiny Witcher anthologies]]. Released in 2012, the short stories as uncommonly for Sapkowski are mostly fantasy, although he also tackles two other genres - science-fiction and horror. It also consisting of two stories set in [[Franchise/TheWitcher Witcherverse]], but none of them are part of main series (first being a prequel, and second being [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]]).
* A Road Of No Return (''Droga z której się nie wraca, 1988''): Prequel story to the Witcher franchise, which follows an female druid Visenne, Geralt's mother and talkative bandit Korin, ''presumably'' Geralt's father ([[ShrugOfGod Sapkowski never confirmed it]]). At first it wasn't supposed to be a part of Witcherverse, but actually Sapkowski's first fantasy novel, but he had to shorten it to an short story format, and later used Visenne as Geralt's mother, making it in fact canon.
* Musicians (''Muzykanci, 1990''): Sapkowski's very first horror story. It takes place in [[TownwithaDarkSecret unkown small town in Poland]], where [[OccultDetective detective Andrzej Nejman]] investigates case of the bizzare murders taking place, that are somewhat linked to victims gruesomly killing their pets before.
* A Road Of No Return (''Droga z której się nie wraca, 1988''): Prequel story to the Witcher franchise, which follows an female druid Visenne, Geralt's mother and talkative bandit Korin, ''presumably'' Geralt's father ([[ShrugOfGod Sapkowski never confirmed it]]). At first it wasn't supposed to be a part of Witcherverse, but actually Sapkowski's first fantasy novel, but he had to shorten it to an short story format, and later used Visenne as Geralt's mother, making it in fact canon.
* Musicians (''Muzykanci, 1990''): Sapkowski's very first horror story. It takes place in [[TownwithaDarkSecret unkown small town in Poland]], where [[OccultDetective detective Andrzej Nejman]] investigates case of the bizzare murders taking place, that are somewhat linked to victims gruesomly killing their pets before.
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Maladie And Other Stories (''Maladie i inne opowiadania'') is short story collection, composed of all short stories written by Polish writter Creator/AndrzejSapkowski created through his life (more specifically from 1988 to 2007) that weren't part of [[Literature/TheLastWish two]] [[Literature/SwordOfDestiny Witcher anthologies]]. Released in 2012, the short stories as uncommonly for Sapkowski are mostly fantasy, although he also tackles two other genres - science-fiction and horror. It also consisting of two stories set in [[Franchise/TheWitcher Witcherverse]], but none of them are part of main series (first being a prequel, and second being [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]]). \n\n The anthology is essentially a re-release of earlier ''The Road of No Return'' from 2000, with a single new story (''Spanienkreuz'') added to the mix.
*A ''The Road Of No Return Return'' (''Droga z której się nie wraca, 1988''): Prequel story to the Witcher franchise, which follows an female druid Visenne, Geralt's mother and talkative bandit Korin, ''presumably'' Geralt's father ([[ShrugOfGod Sapkowski never confirmed it]]). At first it wasn't supposed to be a part of Witcherverse, but actually Sapkowski's first fantasy novel, but he had to shorten it to an short story format, and later used Visenne as Geralt's mother, making it in fact canon.
*Musicians ''Musicians'' (''Muzykanci, 1990''): Sapkowski's very first horror story. It takes place in [[TownwithaDarkSecret unkown small town in Poland]], where [[OccultDetective detective Andrzej Nejman]] investigates case of the bizzare murders taking place, that are somewhat linked to victims gruesomly killing their pets before.
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* In The Bomb Funnel (''W leju po bombie, 1993''): A satirical science-fiction story set in [[AlternateHistory alternative version of Poland]] where Polish city Suwałki is occupied by German and Lithuanian armies, both fighting with eachother. Story mostly criticizing clergy, radical nationalism and militarism with great dose of [[BlackComedy black humor]].
* Something Ends, Something Begins (''Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna, 1993''): [[SliceOfLife Non-canon story taking place during Geralt's and Yennefer's wedding preparations]], full of comedic situations and interactions caused by beloved Witcher characters. [[RealLifeWritesthePlot AS wrote it as honoring two very popular fantasy writters and his good friends at that, marrying eachother]], that's why he thinks of the story more as an "typical day at the fantasy convention" than actual Witcher story.
* Battle Dust (''Bitewny pył, 1994''): More of a joke, than an actual story, ''Battle Dust'' was written by Sapkowski beacuse one of his friends from fantasy convention giving him an idea of writting small part of the bigger story (a space opera at that) as a joke, publishing it in the magazine with heading reading ''Sapkowski ends with fantasy and Witcher cycle to start space opera novel''. [[TrollingCreator And considering it's Sapkowski we are talking about]], he found the idea most delightful.
* Golden Afternoon (''Złote popołudnie, 1999''): Fantasy short story taking place during [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland]] events, being this time told from Cheshire Cat's perspective. Full of [[DeconstructorFleet deconstructions]], [[TakeThat taking a piss at all try-hard "adult" interpretations of Alice's story]] and Sapkowski's playground of showing his [[AuthorAppeal affection and admiration towards cats, if you haven't figured it out already]].
* Mischief Creek Happenings (''Zdarzenie w Mischief Creek, 2000''): Combination of horror, fantasy and crime story, it's set during infamous [[WitchHunt Salem's witch trials]] and following group of men, being led by [[SinisterMinister fanatical reverend]] in search of a girl accused of being a witch.
* Something Ends, Something Begins (''Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna, 1993''): [[SliceOfLife Non-canon story taking place during Geralt's and Yennefer's wedding preparations]], full of comedic situations and interactions caused by beloved Witcher characters. [[RealLifeWritesthePlot AS wrote it as honoring two very popular fantasy writters and his good friends at that, marrying eachother]], that's why he thinks of the story more as an "typical day at the fantasy convention" than actual Witcher story.
* Battle Dust (''Bitewny pył, 1994''): More of a joke, than an actual story, ''Battle Dust'' was written by Sapkowski beacuse one of his friends from fantasy convention giving him an idea of writting small part of the bigger story (a space opera at that) as a joke, publishing it in the magazine with heading reading ''Sapkowski ends with fantasy and Witcher cycle to start space opera novel''. [[TrollingCreator And considering it's Sapkowski we are talking about]], he found the idea most delightful.
* Golden Afternoon (''Złote popołudnie, 1999''): Fantasy short story taking place during [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland]] events, being this time told from Cheshire Cat's perspective. Full of [[DeconstructorFleet deconstructions]], [[TakeThat taking a piss at all try-hard "adult" interpretations of Alice's story]] and Sapkowski's playground of showing his [[AuthorAppeal affection and admiration towards cats, if you haven't figured it out already]].
* Mischief Creek Happenings (''Zdarzenie w Mischief Creek, 2000''): Combination of horror, fantasy and crime story, it's set during infamous [[WitchHunt Salem's witch trials]] and following group of men, being led by [[SinisterMinister fanatical reverend]] in search of a girl accused of being a witch.
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* In ''In The Bomb Funnel Funnel'' (''W leju po bombie, 1993''): A satirical science-fiction story set in [[AlternateHistory alternative version of Poland]] where Polish city Suwałki is occupied by German and Lithuanian armies, both fighting with eachother. Story mostly criticizing clergy, radical nationalism and militarism with great dose of [[BlackComedy black humor]].
*Something ''Something Ends, Something Begins Begins'' (''Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna, 1993''): [[SliceOfLife Non-canon story taking place during Geralt's and Yennefer's wedding preparations]], full of comedic situations and interactions caused by beloved Witcher characters. [[RealLifeWritesthePlot AS wrote it as honoring two very popular fantasy writters and his good friends at that, marrying eachother]], that's why he thinks of the story more as an "typical day at the fantasy convention" than actual Witcher story.
*Battle Dust ''Battle Dust'' (''Bitewny pył, 1994''): More of a joke, than an actual story, ''Battle Dust'' was written by Sapkowski beacuse one of his friends from fantasy convention giving him an idea of writting small part of the bigger story (a space opera at that) as a joke, publishing it in the magazine with heading reading ''Sapkowski ends with fantasy and Witcher cycle to start space opera novel''. [[TrollingCreator And considering it's Sapkowski we are talking about]], he found the idea most delightful.
*Golden Afternoon ''Golden Afternoon'' (''Złote popołudnie, 1999''): Fantasy short story taking place during [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland]] events, being this time told from Cheshire Cat's perspective. Full of [[DeconstructorFleet deconstructions]], [[TakeThat taking a piss at all try-hard "adult" interpretations of Alice's story]] and Sapkowski's playground of showing his [[AuthorAppeal affection and admiration towards cats, if you haven't figured it out already]].
* ''The Mischief CreekHappenings Happening'' (''Zdarzenie w Mischief Creek, 2000''): Combination of horror, fantasy and crime story, it's set during infamous [[WitchHunt Salem's witch trials]] and following group of men, being led by [[SinisterMinister fanatical reverend]] in search of a girl accused of being a witch.
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* DolledUpInstallment: ''A Road of No Return'' started as its own thing, until Sapkowski changed his mind and declared it part of the Witcherverse. It most definitely doesn't work as part of the setting, but given the author's attitude towards such things as "canon" or even "setting", it's hardly surprising.
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* DolledUpInstallment: ''A ''The Road of No Return'' started as its own thing, until Sapkowski changed his mind and declared it part of the Witcherverse. It most definitely doesn't work as part of the setting, but given the author's attitude towards such things as "canon" or even "setting", it's hardly surprising.surprising.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The NativeGuide from ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' has the misfortune of being "liberated" by a group of witches. He is [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turned against the English settlers]], except they kill him in self-defense.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The NativeGuide from ''The Mischief Creek Happening'' has the misfortune of being "liberated" by a group of witches. He is [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turned against the English settlers]], except they kill him in self-defense.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''A Road Of No Return'', considering it was second Sapkowski's short story and at first it wasn't supposed to be set in Witcher universe have some elements of this. Visenna is said to be a part of Mayena Circle of Druids, and while druids aren't uncommon in later Witcher stories, they're mostly a part of isolated organizations, mostly trying to preserve nature and endangered species, but here the druid circle is said to be a powerful organizations of all magic users alike, pulling strings behind the scenes. All those traits would later be attached to the Lodge of Sorceresses and Brotherhood of Sorcerers. Also both mention two non-human races, [[LizardFolk vrans]] and [[BeastMen werebbubbs]] that would later never appear in the Witcher cycle never again. Although the latter can be perfectly explainable - we don't know the exact date of this short story events so it can be explained as being old time ago, where both vrans and werebbubbs weren't driven to an extinction.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''A ''The Road Of No Return'', considering it was second Sapkowski's short story and at first it wasn't supposed to be set in Witcher universe have some elements of this. Visenna is said to be a part of Mayena Circle of Druids, and while druids aren't uncommon in later Witcher stories, they're mostly a part of isolated organizations, mostly trying to preserve nature and endangered species, but here the druid circle is said to be a powerful organizations of all magic users alike, pulling strings behind the scenes. All those traits would later be attached to the Lodge of Sorceresses and Brotherhood of Sorcerers. Also both mention two non-human races, [[LizardFolk vrans]] and [[BeastMen werebbubbs]] that would later never appear in the Witcher cycle never again. Although the latter can be perfectly explainable - we don't know the exact date of this short story events so it can be explained as being old time ago, where both vrans and werebbubbs weren't driven to an extinction.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''A Road Of No Return'', considering it was second Sapkowski's short story and at first it wasn't supposed to be set in Witcher universe have some elements of this. Visenna is said to be a part of Mayena Circle of Druids, and while druids aren't uncommon in later Witcher stories, they're mostly a part of isolated organizations, mostly trying to preserve nature and endangered species, but here the druid circle is said to be a powerful organizations of all magic users alike, pulling strings behind the scenes. All those traits would later be attached to the Lodge of Sorceresses and Brotherhood of Sorcerers. Also both mention two non-human races, [[LizardFolk vrans]] and [[BeastMen werebbubbs]] that would later never appear in the Witcher cycle never again. Although the latter can be perfectly explainable - we don't know the exact date of this short story events so it can be explained as being old time ago, where both vrans and werebbubbs weren't driven to an extinction.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: DolledUpInstallment: ''A Road Of of No Return'', considering it was second Sapkowski's short story Return'' started as its own thing, until Sapkowski changed his mind and at first declared it wasn't supposed to be set in Witcher universe have some elements of this. Visenna is said to be a part of Mayena Circle of Druids, and while druids aren't uncommon in later Witcher stories, they're mostly a the Witcherverse. It most definitely doesn't work as part of isolated organizations, mostly trying to preserve nature and endangered species, the setting, but here given the druid circle is said to be a powerful organizations of all magic users alike, pulling strings behind the scenes. All those traits would later be attached to the Lodge of Sorceresses and Brotherhood of Sorcerers. Also both mention two non-human races, [[LizardFolk vrans]] and [[BeastMen werebbubbs]] that would later never appear in the Witcher cycle never again. Although the latter can be perfectly explainable - we don't know the exact date of this short story events so it can be explained author's attitude towards such things as being old time ago, where both vrans and werebbubbs weren't driven to an extinction."canon" or even "setting", it's hardly surprising.
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* SliceOfLife: ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' is basically this to whole Witcher saga, novels and short stories alike. It's mostly lighthearted and comedic situations between Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri, Dandelion and many, many more beloved Witcher characters getting their spotlight here and there.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''A Road Of No Return'', considering it was second Sapkowski's short story and at first it wasn't supposed to be set in Witcher universe have some elements of this. Visenna is said to be a part of Mayena Circle of Druids, and while druids aren't uncommon in later Witcher stories, they're mostly a part of isolated organizations, mostly trying to preserve nature and endangered species, but here the druid circle is said to be a powerful organizations of all magic users alike, pulling strings behind the scenes. All those traits would later be attached to the Lodge of Sorceresses and Brotherhood of Sorcerers. Also both mention two non-human races, [[LizardFolk vrans]] and [[BeastMen werebbubbs]] that would later never appear in the Witcher cycle never again. Although the latter can be perfectly explainable - we don't know the exact date of this short story events so it can be explained as being old time ago, where both vrans and werebbubbs weren't driven to an extinction.
* SliceOfLife: ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' is basically this to whole Witcher saga, novels and short stories alike. It's mostly lighthearted and comedic situations between Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri, Dandelion and many, many more beloved Witcher characters getting their spotlight here andthere.there.
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* SliceOfLife: ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' is basically this to whole Witcher saga, novels and short stories alike. It's mostly lighthearted and comedic situations between Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri, Dandelion and many, many more beloved Witcher characters getting their spotlight here and
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* In The Bomb Funnel (''W leju po bombie, 1993''): A satirical science-fiction story set in [[AlternateHistory alternative version of Poland]] where Polish city Suwałki is occupied by German and Lithuanian armies, both fighting with eachother. Story mostly criticizing [[AcceptableReligiousTargets clergy]], [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets radical nationalism and militarism]] with great dose of [[BlackComedy black humor]].
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* In The Bomb Funnel (''W leju po bombie, 1993''): A satirical science-fiction story set in [[AlternateHistory alternative version of Poland]] where Polish city Suwałki is occupied by German and Lithuanian armies, both fighting with eachother. Story mostly criticizing [[AcceptableReligiousTargets clergy]], [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets clergy, radical nationalism and militarism]] militarism with great dose of [[BlackComedy black humor]].
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* SliceOfLife: ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' is basically this to whole Witcher saga, novels and short stories alike. It's mostly lighthearted and comedic situations between Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri, Dandelion and [[LoadsandLoadsofCharacters many, many more beloved Witcher characters]] getting their spotlight here and there.
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* SliceOfLife: ''Something Ends, Something Begins'' is basically this to whole Witcher saga, novels and short stories alike. It's mostly lighthearted and comedic situations between Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri, Dandelion and [[LoadsandLoadsofCharacters many, many more beloved Witcher characters]] characters getting their spotlight here and there.
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* CampbellCountry: Both of his horror stories ''Musicians'' and ''Tandaradei!'' are set in Poland.
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** The ''Musicians'' have weird demonic beings, mostly known as veehals, who [[spoiler: kill people who abuse or kill their pets]]. They come in different shapes and form, sometimes manifesting as victim's worst fear or formeless mass of darkness. The worst of them is presumably ''krostowaty'' (which in translation literally means ''The Pustular One'') who despite being described as classic monster (giant claws and teeth) is said to look so horrifying, it drives two people (a young girl and a scientist) [[GoMadFromRevelation insane]].
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** The ''Musicians'' have [[OurDemonsAreDifferent weird demonic beings, mostly known as veehals, veehals]], who [[spoiler: kill people who abuse or kill their pets]]. They come in different shapes and form, sometimes manifesting as victim's worst fear or formeless mass of darkness. The worst of them is presumably ''krostowaty'' (which in translation literally means ''The Pustular One'') who despite being described as classic monster (giant claws and teeth) is said to look so horrifying, it drives two people (a young girl and a scientist) [[GoMadFromRevelation [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insane]].
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** The ''Musicians'' have weird demonic beings, mostly known as veehals, who [[spoiler: kill people who abuse or kill their pets]]. They come in different shapes and form, sometimes manifesting as victim's worst fear or formeless mass of darkness. The worst of them is presumably ''krostowaty'' (which in translation literally means ''The Pustular One'') who despite being described as classic monster (giant claws and teeth) is said to look so horrifying, it drives two people (a young girl and a scientist) [[GoMadFromRevelation insane]].
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* EldritchAbomination: Both horror stories have them in some way or another, which should not be suprising considering the fact that Sapkowski regards Creator/H.P. Lovecraft as one of the best when it comes to horror and writting as a whole and his [[Franchise/TheWitcher other]] [[Literature/HussiteTrilogy works]] have some [[ShoutOut lovecraftian referencess]].
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* EldritchAbomination: Both horror stories have them in some way or another, which should not be suprising considering the fact that Sapkowski regards Creator/H.P. Lovecraft Creator/HPLovecraft as one of the best when it comes to horror and writting as a whole and his [[Franchise/TheWitcher other]] [[Literature/HussiteTrilogy works]] have some [[ShoutOut lovecraftian referencess]].
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* EldritchAbomination: Both horror stories have them in some way or another, which should not be suprising considering the fact that Sapkowski regards Creator/H.P P. Lovecraft as one of the best when it comes to horror and writting as a whole and his [[Franchise/TheWitcher other]] [[Literature/HussiteTrilogy works]] have some [[ShoutOut lovecraftian referencess]].
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* EldritchAbomination: Both horror stories have them in some way or another, which should not be suprising considering the fact that Sapkowski regards [[Creator/H.P Lovecraft]] as one of the best when it comes to horror and writting as a whole and his [[Franchise/TheWitcher other]] [[Literature/HussiteTrilogy works]] have some [[ShoutOut lovecraftian referencess]].
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* EldritchAbomination: Both horror stories have them in some way or another, which should not be suprising considering the fact that Sapkowski regards [[Creator/H.Creator/H.P Lovecraft]] Lovecraft as one of the best when it comes to horror and writting as a whole and his [[Franchise/TheWitcher other]] [[Literature/HussiteTrilogy works]] have some [[ShoutOut lovecraftian referencess]].
