Ladies of the Fright: Witches!!

Art by Kathleen Jennings as always, from Flight.

Over Halloween I had a chat with the delightful and delovely Lisa Quigley and Mackenzie Kiera, the Ladies of the Fright! About witches (or my “witch work”). Me, sounding very Australian – in the background you can hear grumbling dogs, in both Brisbane and New York.

“Show me your witches and I’ll show you how you how you feel about your women.” Pam Grossman

We talk fairy tales, witchy stuff, a potted history of witches, that witches weren’t always unjustified in what they did, and we discuss in depth the magnificent “These Deathless Bones” by Cassandra Khaw … and my recommended reading list is below.

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Witches Book Recommendations

• Fiction

  • Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch

  • Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber

  • Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour

  • Tanith Lee’s The Blood of Roses and The Flat Earth Series

  • Lisa L. Hannett’s Bluegrass Symphony

  • Naomi Novik’s Uprooted

  • https://bookriot.com/2017/04/18/100-must-read-books-witches/

• Non-fiction:

  • Marina Warner’s From the Beast to the Blonde

  • Stacy Schiff’s The Witches: Salem 1692

  • Elizabeth Lynn Linton’s Witch Stories (you can get this on Project Gutenberg)

• Authors to look out for:
  

  • Angie Rega

  • Suzanne J. Willis

  • Shauna O’Meara

  • Leife Shallcross

  • Kirstyn McDermott – argh! How could I forget this one? https://www.tor.com/2018/09/05/triquetra-kirstyn-mcdermott/

  • Nin Harris

  • Silvia Morena-Garcia

  • Tonya Liburd

  • Maria Lewis

  • Vida Cruz

  • Theodora Goss

  • Maria Haskins

  • Gwendolyn Kiste

  • Karen Runge