The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) of the storyline of the film, the sorcerer's final anger with his apprentice which appears in "Fantasia" does not appear in Goethe's source poem, "Der Zauberlehrling". The popularity of the musical piece in "Fantasia" led to it being used again in "Fantasia 2000". A decade prior to "Fantasia", in 1930 William Cameron Menzies directed and Joseph M. Schenck produced a series of four short films of classical music. One of the four, based on the Dukas music, was titled "The Wizard's Apprentice"; this short film has been released on DVD and shown on Classic Arts Showcase. In 1931, the Dukas
The Return of the Sorcerer The Return of the Sorcerer "The Return of the Sorcerer" is a horror short story by American writer Clark Ashton Smith, first published in "Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror" in September 1931. The story ties into H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos due to its references to Lovecraft's invented book of occult lore the "Necronomicon". It tells of one Mr. Ogden being hired by scholarly recluse John Carnby to translate passages from the "Necronomicon". According to "The Complete H.P. Lovecraft Filmography", "The Return of the Sorcerer" is the first published story by a writer other than Lovecraft to adopt the