The story of a witch past her prime, proving that the most compelling magic is the stubborn will to protect what you’ve built. A Forest Darkly by A.G. Slatter: A Witch’s Story for Grown-Ups Walking the same path every day, you stop seeing the individual trees. They blur into a … A Forest Darkly by A.G. Slatter: A Witch’s Story for Grown-UpsRead more
Series: A.G. Slatter
A Forest, Darkly, The Witch in the Woods Gets a Voice: A.G. Slatter on Menopause, Monsters, and A Feminist Gothic Fantasy
In a genre often obsessed with youth, A.G. Slatter’s latest novel, A Forest, Darkly, offers a refreshing and powerful shift. Set in her acclaimed, bewitching Gothic Sourdough universe, this dark fantasy introduces us to Mehrab, a blunt, grumpy, and deeply compelling witch in her fifties who has retreated from the world … A Forest, Darkly, The Witch in the Woods Gets a Voice: A.G. Slatter on Menopause, Monsters, and A Feminist Gothic FantasyRead more
The Cold House Review: A.G. Slatter’s Folk Horror Novella Chills to the Bone
The Bones Remember: A.G. Slatter’s Grief-Chilled Tale of Haunting and Heritage, The Cold House You know that feeling. Not the jump scare, not the gory bit. It’s the slow seep of cold. The kind that starts behind your ribs, a dull ache that has nothing to do with the weather. … The Cold House Review: A.G. Slatter’s Folk Horror Novella Chills to the BoneRead more
The Sourdough Compendium Review: A. G. Slatter’s Gothic Triumph
A. G. Slatter’s The Sourdough Compendium gathers three long-out-of-print mosaic collections into a single 657-page volume of gothic horror that reads like the Rosetta Stone for her entire Sourdough universe. Our review explores how these folk horror stories, built on fairy-tale logic and female defiance, reward every dark fantasy reader who discovers them.