12 best-selling fantasy books like Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold by Daisy Johnson

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Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

By: Daisy Johnson

3.75

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impos…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold by Daisy Johnson , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Folk by None, Zoe  Gilbert, Isobel Simonds

1. Folk

By: None , Zoe Gilbert , Isobel Simonds

3.94

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Every year they gather, while the girls shoot their arrows and the boys hunt them out. The air is r… read more

Similar categories in None's Folk book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • fairy tales
  • magical realism
  • short stories
  • folklore
  • fiction
  • fantasy

2. I'm the King of the Castle

By: Susan Hill

3.72

Format: 272 pages,

'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kin… read more

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3. The One Hundred Nights of Hero

By: Isabel Greenberg

4.23

Format: 528 pages, ebook

In the tradition of The Arabian Nights, a beautifully illustrated tapestry of folk tales and myths … read more

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4. Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed

By: Margaret Atwood

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A FUN AND FEARLESS ANTHOLOGY OF FEMINIST TALES, to celebrate Virago's 50th birthday, featuring NEW … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Atwood's Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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5. Now She is Witch

By: Kirsty Logan

3.54

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

She dug her mother's grave in the poison garden so it would stay hidden... From the snowy winter… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Logan's Now She is Witch book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. Things We Say in the Dark

By: Kirsty Logan

3.79

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

A shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing … read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Logan's Things We Say in the Dark book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"I want to know what haunts me. The ghosts that obscure my face in the mirror, that speak in my head when I’m trying to think, that pull my hands back when I try to reach out. I know there’s something…"

-Kirsty Logan, Things We Say in the Dark

Cover of Salt Slow by Julia Armfield

7. Salt Slow

By: Julia Armfield

3.99

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Salt Slow book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • magical realism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"She was a gentle sort of horror,"

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

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8. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

By: Bridget Collins

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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9. Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women

By: Molly Llewellyn

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Phi… read more

Similar categories in Molly Llewellyn's Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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10. Hex

By: Jenni Fagan

3.85

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more

Similar categories in Jenni Fagan's Hex book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

Cover of Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold by Daisy Johnson

11. Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

By: Daisy Johnson

3.75

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impos… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • magical realism
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • folklore
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • mythology
Cover of Three Fires by Denise Mina

12. Three Fires

By: Denise Mina

3.73

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanitie… read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Three Fires book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • fiction
Cover of Fragile Animals by Genevieve Jagger

13. Fragile Animals

By: Genevieve Jagger

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Night Eaters, Vol. 2: Her Little Reapers by Marjorie M. Liu

14. The Night Eaters, Vol. 2: Her Little Reapers

By: Marjorie M. Liu

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The second volume in the graphic novel horror trilogy The Night Eaters from Marjorie Liu and Sana T… read more

Similar categories in Marjorie M. Liu's The Night Eaters, Vol. 2: Her Little Reapers book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat by Garth Marenghi

15. Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat

By: Garth Marenghi

3.93

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

Garth Marenghi - Frightenerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage - is back with volume two of his TerrorTome . … read more

Similar categories in Garth Marenghi's Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe

16. Chrysalis

By: Anna Metcalfe

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This provocative, fiercely imaginative debut follows a woman trying to slip the shackles of society… read more

Similar categories in Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova

17. The Coiled Serpent

By: Camilla Grudova

3.75

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

A little girl throws up Gloria-Jean's teeth after an explosion at the custard factory; Pax, Alexand… read more

Similar categories in Camilla Grudova's The Coiled Serpent book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • magical realism
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson

18. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

Similar categories in Sinéad Gleeson's Hagstone book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • folklore
  • fiction
Cover of The Virago Book of Witches by Shahrukh Husain

19. The Virago Book of Witches

By: Shahrukh Husain

3.49

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Book by read more

Similar categories in Shahrukh Husain's The Virago Book of Witches book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • mythology
Cover of Sealed by Naomi Booth

20. Sealed

By: Naomi Booth

3.46

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Timely and suspenseful, Sealed is a gripping modern fable on motherhood, a terrifying portrait of o… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Booth's Sealed book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Private Rites by Julia Armfield

21. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

  • fiction
  • horror
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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None , Zoe Gilbert , Isobel Simonds

3.94

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Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed

Margaret Atwood

3.78

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Now She is Witch

Kirsty Logan

3.54

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Things We Say in the Dark

Kirsty Logan

3.79

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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Carmen Maria Machado

3.84

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Mona Awad

3.56

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Ling Ma

3.91

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