Witchcraft Short Stories - Folk Tales & Horror Stories

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.

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.

About the author

Marie O’Regan is a Shirley Jackson, Australian Shadow and British Fantasy Award-nominated author and editor. She is co-editor of anthologies including the bestselling Hellbound Hearts, Cursed, Twice Cursed and The Other Side of Never, and is also Managing Editor of PS Publishing’s novella imprint, Absinthe Books.
Paul Kane is the award-winning bestselling author and editor of over 100 books, such as the sellout Hooded Man omnibus, Hellbound Hearts, Wonderland (Shirley Jackson Award finalist) and The Gemini Factor. His site shadow-writer.co.uk has featured Guest Writers such as Stephen King, Olivie Blake and Guillermo del Toro.
Tanzanian-born author Eugen Bacon is a British Fantasy Award winner, a Foreword Indies Award winner, and a twice World Fantasy Award finalist. Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’, and was a 2024 Philip K. Dick Award nominee. Visit her at eugenbacon.com.
David Barnett is a novelist, journalist and comic writer originally from Wigan and now living in West Yorkshire. His most recent books are a series of interlinked folk horror novels, Withered Hill (2024), Scuttler’s Cove (2025) and the third and fourth, Scratch Moss and Twisted Pike, due in March and October 2026, all from Canelo.
Melissa Bobe is the author of Nascent Witch, The Illustrated Woman, Season of the Witch and Sibyls. She is winner of a 2024 Indie Author of the Year Award, and her collection Electric Trees won the 2023 New York Author Project. She has published fiction with Whisper House Press, Intrepidus Ink, Bards and Sages, Wyldblood Press, and more.
Gabriella Buba is a mixed Filipina-Czech author and chemical engineer based in Texas. She writes fantasy for bold, bi, brown women who deserve to see their stories centered. Her debut Saints of Storm and Sorrow is a Filipino-inspired epic fantasy out with Titan Books. Its sequel, Daughters of Flood and Fury, was released in July 2025.
Mark Chadbourn is a Sunday Times bestselling author and two-time winner of the British Fantasy Award, a screenwriter and a journalist for national media.
Eliza Chan is a Scottish-born speculative fiction author living in Manchester, UK. She writes about East Asian mythology, British folklore and reclaiming the dragon lady. Her #1 Sunday Times bestselling debut novel Fathomfolk and sequel Tideborn are out now. Her short fiction has featured in various magazines and anthologies.
Aveline Fletcher is a technical writer by day and creative writer by night. A lifetime of fascination with Greek mythology, Irish folklore, and of course, witches, led to her consuming and writing stories of fantasy that built on and reimagined the dark and visceral themes of myth and folklore. She lives in the frosty state of Minnesota in the USA.
Helen Grant writes Gothic novels and short supernatural stories. Her most recent novels are the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night Award-winning Too Near The Dead and Jump Cut. Some of her recent short fiction includes ‘The Professor of Ontography’ and ‘Nábrók’. Helen lives in rural Scotland.
Muriel Gray has had a forty-year career in the media. She has written three horror novels and many short stories. She is currently the joint vice chair of the board of trustees of the British Museum, and a non-executive board member of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Kay Hanifen’s work has appeared in over one hundred anthologies and magazines. Her first anthology as an editor, Till the Yule Log Burns Out, was published in 2024. Her first novel, The Last Ballard, debuted the same year
Lisa L. Hannett has had over 80 short stories published, including in Clarkesworld, Fantasy, Weird Tales, Apex, The Dark and Year’s Best anthologies in Australia, Canada and the US. She has won four Aurealis Awards, an Australian National Science Fiction Award, an Australian Shadows Award, and has twice been nominated for a World Fantasy Award.
Damien Kelly is a writer and lecturer from Ireland, growing up windswept and witch-bothered in the wild Northwest. His stories have previously been published in the UK by the British Fantasy Society, Flame Tree Publishing, Jurassic London, Stone Skin Press, and in the US by Lethe Press.
Amanda Mason was born and brought up in Whitby, North Yorkshire. She studied Theatre at Dartington College of Arts, where she began writing by devising and directing plays. Her short stories have been published in several anthologies. Her novels The Wayward Girls and The Hiding Place are both published by Bonnier Zaffre.
Alison Moore’s debut novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Awards, winning the McKitterick Prize. Her short stories have been included in Best British Short Stories and Best British Horror and broadcast on BBC Radio.
Buhlebethu Sukoluhle Mpofu is currently in the beautiful chaos of life. When she’s not busy with daily life, you’ll find her escaping into books or writing her own stories.
Angela ‘A.G.’ Slatter has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Shirley Jackson Award, a Ditmar, several Australian Shadows Awards and Aurealis Awards, and a Premier Ignotas Award. She is the author of All the Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns, The Briar Book of the Dead, The Crimson Road, and the Verity Fassbinder series.
Ally Wilkes’s debut novel, All the White Spaces, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist, and her second novel, Where the Dead Wait, was one of Esquire’s best horror books of 2023. Her short fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. Ally now lives in Greenwich, London.

Product details

• Authors: Marie Kane O''''regan
• Assisted by: Kane Paul (Editor), Marie O'Regan (Editor)
• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 20.01.2026
• EAN: 9781835625972
• ISBN: 978-1-83562-597-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Beyond and Within
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Witchcraft, LITERARY CRITICISM / Short Stories, Horror & ghost stories, Contemporary horror & ghost stories, Occult fiction, Anthologies (non-poetry), FICTION / Horror / General