Fitcher's Bird

A.G. Slatter has won a Shirley Jackson Award, a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, three Australian Shadows Awards, eight Aurealis Awards and a Premier Ignotus. Most recently, All the Murmuring Bones was shortlisted for the 2021 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Book of the Year and the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award; The Path of Thorns won both the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel and the Australian Shadows Award for Best Novel in 2022; and The Briar Book of the Dead has been shortlisted for both the Aurealis and Australian Shadows Awards for 2024. She has a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, and has been a judge for the World Fantasy and Aurealis Awards. Angela's short stories have appeared in many Best Of anthologies, and her work has been translated into many languages. She lives in Brisbane, Australia with a superannuated beagle and a TBR pile which will likely be the death of her. Find her on her website angelaslatter.com and on social media @angelaslatter

Praise for Fitcher's Bird:A fairy tale for the true crime era: a wicked stepmother, a beast of a serial killer, and a determined heroine who invites the darkness into her damaged heart. Beautiful, bleak, violent, satisfying.-Alma Katsu, award-winning author of IncarnateWith Fitcher's Bird, A.G. Slatter has shaped a novel as dark and powerful as the totem at its center-a work that draws on fairy tales, old lore, the natural world, and the beautiful macabre, then becomes something larger than any of its inspirations. The result is a story that satisfies on every level while feeling wholly fresh and sharp as raven claws... a gothic, avian good for her.-Christa Carmen, Bram Stoker AwardÆ-winning author of The Daughters of Block IslandA. G. Slatter is my favorite storyteller, blending folklore and gothic horror into a hypnotic slow burn. Fitcher's Bird is a dreadful thing-a haunting little nightmare wrapped in a delicious, layered mystery.-Sadie Hartmann, Bram Stoker AwardÆ-winning author of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're MurderedA haunting bone effigy to sisterhood. Bleak, beautiful, and merciless. Fitcher's Bird is a folk horror fairy tale with true crime in its blood. Easily one of the best things I've read this year!-Dawn Kurtagich, award-winning author of The MadnessThis is A.G. Slatter at her best: a dreamy fairy tale that's as beautiful as it is devastating. A stunning, startling achievement, and a book that's an absolute must-read for the year.-Gwendolyn Kiste, Four-time Bram Stoker AwardÆ-winning author of Everything Looks Better in Red and The Haunting of VelkwoodLush, haunting, and drenched in fairy-tale dread, Fitcher's Bird is folk horror at its finest. Slatter weaves trauma, sisterhood, and folklore into something both deeply human and deliciously monstrous - proving yet again that she is a mistress of the genre.-Lindy Ryan, USA Today-bestselling author of Dollface and Bless Your HeartA true-crime-inflected delight of a novella, this dark fairy tale has gnawed bones and sharp, unforgiving teeth.-Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces and Where the Dead Wait