Great Witchy Fiction
Discover enchanting reads with our list of great witchy fiction books. Dive into magical worlds, spellbinding stories, and bewitching tales perfect for any witchcraft lover.
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The Fifth Sacred Thing
by Starhawk
An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression. Declaration of the Four Sacred Things The earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth. Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them. To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves became the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. no one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy. All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity. To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible. To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives. Praise for The Fifth Sacred Thing “This is wisdom wrapped in drama.”—Tom Hayden, California state senator “Starhawk makes the jump to fiction quite smoothly with this memorable first novel.”—Locus “Totally captivating . . . a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.”—Elinor Gadon, author of The Once and Future Goddess “This strong debut fits well against feminist futuristic, utopic, and dystopic works by the likes of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ursula LeGuin, and Margaret Atwood.”—Library Journal
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Bell, Book, and Murder
by Rosemary Edghill
For readers who desire a unique dose of witchcraft, mystery, and thrill, here's a real treat. "Bell, Book, and Murder" offers all three of Edghill's Bast novels--"Speak Daggers to Her", "Book of Moons" and the first softcover edition of "The Bowl of Night".
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Words of the Witches
by Yvonne Jocks
These stories offer a glimpse under the veil of superstitions and misunderstandings about witchery--and a fascinating look at the ancient secrets of some thoroughly modern women and men. Includes contributions from Maggie Shayne, Celia Moon, and Evelyn Vaughn.
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The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Retells the legend of King Arthur as perceived by the women central to the tale, from the zealous Morgaine, sworn to uphold her goddess at any cost, to the devout Gwenhwyfar, pledged to the king but drawn to another.
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Walking to Mercury
by Starhawk
In The Fifth Sacred Thing, readers fell in love with Maya Greenwood, the 98-year-old writer who led Northern California's successful 21st century rebellion against a racist, totalitarian regime of the South. Walking to Mercury takes readers back to the 20th century and powerfully dramatizes the forces that shaped this extraordinary woman.The book opens and closes with the middle-aged Maya struggling with a profound personal and spiritual crisis. The culminating factor has been her mother's death, and now Maya embarks on a trek in the Himalayas, intending to sprinkle her mother's ashes at the base of Mt. Everest and finally lay to rest her tumultuous past. At rest stops in tiny Tibetan villages, she reads diary pages her lover Johanna has tucked into her bag—the diary Johanna kept throughout their shared youth during the Vietnam era.In vivid flashbacks to those radical days, we accompany the young Maya as she awakens to the summer of love, joins the anti-war movement, and enters into a relationship with the abusive, alcoholic Rio. She finally gathers the strength to break free and seek her own true path, which takes her from the streets of Manhattan to the mountains of Mexico. Eventually she emerges, stronger and wiser, infused with the wisdom of the earth and the spirit of the goddess. Traveling through the landscape of memories helps Maya reclaim her past and foreshadows the miraculous events readers of The Fifth Sacred Thing know her to be capable of in the future.
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Flying by Night
by Lorna Tedder
"Kestrel Firehawk, a polygamous witch, is framed for the murders of her lovers and forced to flee for her life on Beltane Eve. Fortunately, she's taken in and protected by the Coven of the Jeweled Dragon until her presence threatens their lives and she must take flight again"--Page 4 of cover.
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Murder at Witches' Bluff
by Silver RavenWolf
At the foot of Hag's Head Mountain, four people discover the terrifying secrets that boil in a cauldron of local legend, including a monster that lusts after human souls.
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Beneath a Mountain Moon
by Silver Ravenwolf
The winding plot of this occult fiction turns sharply on a generations-old battle between two powerful families in the small Southern town of Whiskey Springs. There the inhabitants are being manipulated by a dark force that's driving its victims to the local funeral parlor.
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Harm None
by M. R. Sellars
The ritualistically mutilated corpse of a young woman...A Pentacle scrawled in the victim's blood...A cynical police department with biased misconceptions... And one cop who isn't willing to take things at face value... Seeking further meaning from the symbol, St. Louis City Homicide Detective Ben Storm contacts his friend, Rowan Gant -- A practicing Witch. Rowan explains the benevolence of the rune but is himself horrified to learn where it was found and the method by which it was scribed. Since a Witch's creed it to 'Harm None', a new mystery unfolds. Why was a symbol related to Witchcraft found at the murder scene? And why was it drawn in blood? Moreover, why is the killer pretending to be a Witch? Or IS he only pretending?
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Never Burn a Witch
by M. R. Sellars
In 1484, then Pope Innocent VIII issued a papal bull -- A decree giving the endorsement of the church to the inquisitors of the day who hunted, tortured, tried and ultimately murdered those accused of heresy -- especially the practice of WitchCraft. Modern day Witches refer to this dark period of history as The Burning Times.Rowan Gant returns to face a nightmare long thought to be a distant memory. A killer armed with gross misinterpretations of the Holy Bible and a 15th century Witch Hunting Manual known as the Malleus Maleficarum has resurrected the Inquisition and the members of St. Louis' Pagan community are his prey.With the unspeakable horrors of The Burning Times being played out across the metropolitan area, Rowan is again enlisted by Homicide Detective Benjamin Storm and the Major Case Squad to help solve the crimes -- All the while knowing full well that his own religion makes him a potential target.
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The Law of Three
by M. R. Sellars
In February of 2001, serial killer Eldon Andrew Porter set about creating a modern day version of the 15th century inquisition and Witch trials. Following the tenets of the Malleus Maleficarum and his own insane interpretation of the Holy Bible, he tortured and subsequently murdered several innocent people. During a showdown on the old Chain of Rocks Bridge, he narrowly escaped apprehension by the Greater St. Louis Major Case Squad. In the process, his left arm was severely crippled by a gunshot fired at close range. A gunshot fired by a man he was trying to kill. A man who embraced the mystical arts. A Witch. Rowan Gant. In December of the same y
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Perfect Trust
by M. R. Sellars
Rowan Gant, a witch, has the ability to see events through the eyes of others. Using this gift, he has helped the police find two serial killers. Now Detective Benjamin Storm is asking him to help find another predator, one who could test the basic rule of The Craft-- Harm none.
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The Forest House
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
On the Isle of Avalon the Druidic priestess Eilan must guard the ancient rites against the approach of the Roman Empire.
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Lady of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
A tale of the origins and history of Avalon and the prophecy of the birth of the great King Arthur is revealed through the successive lives of three powerful priestesses--Caillean, Teleri, and Viviane, the Lady of the Lake
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Witches' Night of Fear
by Silver RavenWolf
From the author of "Witches' Night Out" comes another installment in the "Witches' Chillers" series. Bethany Salem, 16, seeks help from the coven in the case of a local homicide of a convenience store clerk.
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Witches' Night Out
by Silver Ravenwolf
Bethany and the other members of her coven try to use the power of Wicca to solve the mystery of her boyfriend's death in a car accident.
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Witches' Key to Terror
by Silver RavenWolf
Sixteen-year-old Cricket enlists the help of the Witches' Night Out coven to help her find the stalker who is threatening her family's farm.