Angela Slatter Books in Order

In Lodellan and its surrounding countryside, magic gives life to dolls and bread while wishes carry troubling consequences. These connected dark tales follow longing, love, and loss through a world where familiar comforts can become dangerous.

Women confront the dangers hidden inside familiar fairy tales in this collection of dark retellings. From a haunting Australian landscape to a girl born to be read, the stories explore struggles for control over one’s own life.

White raven Mymnir escapes Ragnarok and establishes a new existence far from the gods who controlled her. Linked stories follow the legacy of her magic and memory from medieval Vinland to the American South, where the past persists.

These linked tales return to the world before Sourdough, where books preserve forbidden secrets and young women learn assassination. Families, unsettling magic, and dangerous knowledge shape lives that can be saved or destroyed by their closest bonds.

When a shapeshifter exposes the supernatural in Edda’s Meadow, witch Patience Gideon is captured with others like her. Facing torture and execution, she must decide how to protect her fellow witches and turn their predicament around.

Dark fairy tales follow women and girls confronting danger, temptation, and the cost of transformation. Alongside selected stories, two new novellas expand a collection in which familiar folklore opens onto uneasy bargains and unexpected choices.

Half human and half Weyrd, Verity Fassbinder keeps Brisbane’s supernatural community hidden from ordinary people. Dead sirens and a disturbing trade in children’s tears draw her into an investigation that threatens both worlds and her precarious place between them.

Twelve stories move between supernatural terror and the unsettling edges of ordinary life. Australian vampires, dangerous children, ancient forces, and desires turned destructive inhabit landscapes ranging from the outback to places haunted by buried secrets.

Pregnant Verity Fassbinder investigates an insurance claim involving a house repeatedly flooded with mud. Drownings far from water and supernatural assassins turn the case into a dangerous test of her ability to protect herself and those she loves.

With her family sent away for safety, Verity Fassbinder works for a violent fallen angel seeking two lost treasures. Meanwhile, women missing for decades reappear as bodies marked by supernatural magic, pulling her between dangerous obligations.

Brief tales draw on myth and horror to reveal unsettling worlds in miniature. Betrayed brides, mechanical creatures, dangerous music, and hungry supernatural beings turn small moments of desire or revenge into encounters with the strange.

Changeling children, ancient gods, supernatural investigations, and altered fairy tales populate these stories of horror and fantasy. The collection moves between intimate grief and uncanny danger, exploring what happens when familiar lives meet forces beyond their understanding.

Miren O’Malley grows up in a family whose prosperity depended on a bargain with the sea. As their fortunes collapse, her grandmother seeks to renew the pact, threatening Miren’s freedom and forcing her to confront its cost.

Princess Emer flees a kingdom that forbids magic, only to be transformed by a cursed raven. Caught in a struggle between her mother and aunt, she searches for the Crown of Feathers and her own identity.

Angela Slatter considers how writers sustain a career between book launches. Essays on public readings, grant applications, community involvement, and fallow periods explore the practical and emotional work of continuing to write when immediate attention fades.

Angela Slatter examines the pressures of a writing career and the danger of confusing personal worth with published work. Essays address rejection, awards, social media, and professional relationships, offering ways to navigate the industry without losing perspective.

Selke delays a hungry creature at her campfire with food and stories while seeking a way to survive. Tales of a witch at court and a magical instrument unfold around her search for the mysterious bone lantern.

Asher Todd arrives at Morwood as a governess with unusual botanical knowledge and a hidden purpose. Her plans for revenge become complicated by affection for the children, while persistent ghosts demand that she reckon with her past.

In Lodellan, Cordelia Parsifal’s hard-won comfort is threatened by the return of old ghosts. Around her, saints awaken and transformations unsettle ordinary lives, while a volatile creature holds the fate of two worlds in its hands.

Twelve stories explore danger behind seemingly innocent faces, drawing together witches, supernatural detectives, destructive parents, and killers. Across these unsettling encounters, hidden motives and old knowledge complicate the line between protection and harm, trust and fear.

Ellie serves a family of witches despite possessing no magic herself. When she discovers she can speak with the dead, their requests uncover dangerous family secrets and a conspiracy threatening the town her relatives have long protected.

After a crash kills her husband and daughter, writer Everly discovers that her marriage concealed a false identity and an unexpected fortune. Retreating to an isolated house, she hears her daughter’s voice and confronts its unsettling secrets.

Violet Zennor’s father raised her to fight and kill, preparing her for a future she never chose. After his death, an assassination attempt forces her to confront his plans involving the Darklands and the monstrous Leech Lords.

Three sisters survived a childhood fire after being taken into a doctor’s household. Years later, when her younger sisters disappear, the eldest must return to the secrets of that home and discover what else survived the flames.