Witchcraft Short Stories
Folk Tales & Horror Stories
Paul Kane editor Marie O'Regan editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Flame Tree Publishing
Publishing:20th Jan '26
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 20th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
From the team that created Folk Horror short stories, here's a striking, terrifying, thoughtful and beautiful new book of short stories by award winning authors and new voices too.
Award-winning anthologists Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan have put together another outstanding selection of stories. Authors include Ally Wilkes, Eliza Chan, Angela Slatter, Gabriella Buba and Lisa L. Hannett. The books too are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.
An impressive new anthology of horror stories exploring what it means to be ‘witch’, including the rediscovery and reclaiming of that power, its links to nature, and witchcraft mythology from around the world. Award-winning anthologists Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane have commissioned and chosen an outstanding selection of tales, with contributions from authors including Ally Wilkes, Eliza Chan, Angela Slatter, Gabriella Buba and Lisa L. Hannett. Five brand new stories have also been selected from a popular open submissions call.
The full list of featured authors in this book is: Eugen Bacon, David Barnett, Melissa Bobe, Gabriella Buba, Mark Chadbourn, Eliza Chan, Aveline Fletcher, Helen Grant, Muriel Gray, Kay Hanifen, Lisa L. Hannett, Damien Kelly, Amanda Mason, Alison Moore, Buhlebethu Sukoluhle Mpofu, Angela Slatter and Ally Wilkes.
Flame Tree Beyond and Within short story collections bring together tales of myth and imagination by modern and contemporary writers, carefully selected by anthologists, and sometimes featuring short stories from a single author. Overall, the series presents a wide range of diverse and inclusive voices with myth, folkloric-inflected short fiction, and an emphasis on the supernatural, science fiction, the mysterious and the speculative. The books themselves are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover editions, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.
Reviews of the previous anthology, Folk Horror:
'The range of imaginations it conglomerates forms a staunch bastion of stories, and Kane and O’Regan’s introduction is worth a perusal just to get a feel of how considered the whole thing is. Complete with beautiful cover, the anthology isn’t afraid to transplant you from the cosier realms of reality to its darker, untamed regions, and from the first moment you’ll wonder the kind of Pandora’s box you have opened...' (Ginger Nuts of Horror)
'Creepy and entertaining' (Black Gate)
'100% gems all the way for me [...] A varied range of often genuinely scary tales, all of the highest quality. A very handsomely presented hardback edition, too.' (Concatenation)
'The hit rate for quality stories is there.' (SFBook)
'...stories concern[ing] the forces of nature; deals with the devil, or perhaps something worse than the devil; creatures from myth, and creatures that look familiar, but aren’t; wedding ceremonies with sinister undertones; and even tale set in a post-apocalyptic world where the old ways are re-embraced. [...] Folk Horror manages to be just as good inside those "trippy" covers as the covers themselves.' (Concatenation)
Reviews of earlier anthologies edited by Marie and Paul:
‘The Mammoth book of Body Horror deserves a place on your bookshelf, but make sure it’s well away from kids and those of a fragile disposition.’ (Starburst, 10/10 review)
‘An impressive collection… Exit Wounds proves how excellent crime short stories can be!’ (The Times)
‘The quality of the 19 entries is top-notch... Every entry is well-written, suspenseful, and peopled with fully developed characters – a tribute to the editors’ judgment.’ (Starred, featured review of Exit Wounds in Publishers Weekly)
Overall, Wonderland is a really interesting collection of tales, one that will amuse fans of Alice and genre fiction alike.’ (Starburst magazine)
‘O’Regan and Kane have pulled the anthology together as only editors with consummate skill and experience can, and in terms of style and delivery, there really is something for everyone. It will be good to see The Other Side of Never take flight in the real world. There is certainly enough here to get anyone “hooked”. Highly recommended.’ (The British Fantasy Society)
ISBN: 9781835625972
Dimensions: 122mm x 195mm x 25mm
Weight: 600g
416 pages