Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery

by Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Autumn Deering (Editor), Christopher Golden (Editor), Rachel Caine, Sherrilyn Kenyon

Overview

Includes 'How to Become a Witch Queen' shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award.
Brand-new stories of witches and witchcraft written by popular female fantasy authors, including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Sherrilyn Kenyon writing in their own bestselling universes!

These are tales of witches, wickedness, evil and cunning. Stories of disruption and subversion by today's women you should fear. Including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Sherrilyn Kenyon writing in their own bestselling universes.

These witches might be monstrous, or they might be heroes, depending on their own definitions. Even the kind hostess with the candy cottage thought of herself as the hero of her own story. After all, a woman's gotta eat.

Bring out your dread.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789090369
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	11/10/2020
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	663,842
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Rachel Deering is a rising star, first coming to prominence as part of the Kickstarter hit, Womanthology. Since then, she has done very well with her self-published horror anthology, In The Dark, and short stories for DC/Vertigo's Magenta series.

Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling author of Snowblind, Ararat, Of Saints and Shadows, and many other novels. As editor, his anthologies include Seize the Night, Dark Cities, and The New Dead, among others. Golden has also written screenplays, radio plays, an animated web series, short stories, non-fiction, and video games. He is one-third of the popular pop culture podcast Three Guys with Beards.

Editorial Reviews

a great selection for anyone who wants to get a jump-start on Halloween” - Black Gate

From the Publisher

08/19/2019

Witches are both villains and women claiming their power and using it to uplift other women in this capable anthology. The genre ranges from the purely fantastical (“An Invitation to the Burning” by Kat Howard) to the contemporary (“Last Stop on Route Nine” by Tananarive Due). In Hillary Monahan’s deliciously satisfying “Bless Your Heart,” a Texan mother works magic into her famous seven-layer bars to force the mother of her son’s bully to put a stop to the child’s torment. Rachel Caine’s brief “Home,” set in her Morganville Vampire world, starts off leaning toward horror and ends on a surprising note. The collection crosses into the future with “The Memories of Trees” by Mary Sangiovanni, wherein the remnants of current technology are folded into the worship of a new god after the violent death of modern society, and a wise witch relearns how to call on the old gods for help. Though the selections vary widely in theme, women and their power are always at the heart. Nothing here really wows, but fans of witches will find the anthology a pleasant diversion. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

★ 09/01/2019

Are you a good witch or a bad witch? The answer lies in the heart and minds of the witches themselves, whether lauded or condemned. Here, 18 stories by women writers present the shades of gray within witchcraft. In Kat Howard's "An Invitation to a Burning," witches and fire cannot help but be paired. Angela Slatter's "Widow's Walk" shows that a house of older spinsters with strange habits can be exactly what they seem. See another snippet of dark witch Eve Levine's life on the run with her daughter Savannah in Kelley Armstrong's "Black Magic Momma: An Otherworld Story." Witness how unsuccessful witchcraft can still give the same results for ten-year old Frances in Amber Benson's "This Skin." Finally, Theodora Goss reimagines Snow White's path after marriage in "How To Become a Witch Queen." VERDICT Wickedness and white magic, edgy prose, and celebrated authors make this a magical volume that twists and shapes the witch archetype into fascinating, dark tales.—Kristi Chadwick, Massachusetts Lib. Syst., Northampton

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