A COLLECTION  by Tracy Fahey
CATEGORY  Folklore / Fantasy
PUBLICATION DATE  June 2026
COVER & INTERIOR ART  Jacob Stack
PAGES 287
ISBN  978-1-80394-580-4

EDITION
Trade Paperback 

ABOUT THE BOOK

The mythic Hag of Béara reawakens to find older women now ignored and marginalised. Devotional talismans left at her altar unlock fourteen stories:

• a young doctor inherits a strange and troubling patient (‘What Happens At The End,’ winner of the Paul Cave Prize for Literature 2024)
• a pregnant woman becomes enmeshed in a fertility cult (‘Witchwalking,’ on US editor Ellen Datlow’s Recommended Reading List for 2024)
• a domestic abuse survivor finds refuge in water (‘The Women In The Water,’ shortlisted for the London Independent Story Prize 2024).

The Hag listens to these stories, and as she does, her own wounds reopen. Can the narrators – and the Hag herself – find liberation and healing?Ideal for fans of Sharon Blackie’s Hagitude, Kirsty Logan’s A Portable Shelter and Daisy Johnson’s A Retelling.

CONTENTS

• The Night Hag
• Witchwalking
• Barren
• Selling The Winds
• Asylum
• Are You A Witch, Or Are You A Fairy?
• The Women In The Water
• Uhripuu
• The Green Lady
• Here Comes The Sun
• Once Upon A Time (There Was A Wise Woman)
• Ana Ní Áine
• All The Drowned Women
• What Happens At The End