From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Everlasting and StarlingHouse comes a new collection of stories about tricksters and ghosts, ordinary magic and mundane spectacle. Alix E. Harrow spins tales never-told and seen just outside the periphery of reality–in the tradition of Angela Carter, Anne Sexton, and Carmen Maria Machado, these resonant and defiant stories leap from the page and dance in and out of a history that never was (but could have been) and into a future startingly like our own.

What’s a legend, except a history told slantwise?

These are stories about the past as it wasn’t quite, but might have been, from ancient battlefields all the way up through roadside attractions off I-70. They’re about the people caught in the mean jaws of history: the women and workers, the soldiers and mothers, everyone shoved into the margins of the world.

But these aren’t stories about victims —they’re stories about the ones that got away. The ones who defected and dissented, who broke the rules, who ran and tossed a match behind them.

THE SLANTWISE HISTORIES collects the best known short fiction of Alix. E. Harrow, including the Hugo-award winning "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" and, for the first time in print, "The Six Deaths of the Saint" and "The Knight and the Butcherbird". Updated to reflect the author's preferred editions, Slantwise Histories also includes "The Long Way Up", "Roadside Attraction", "Mr. Death", "The Ransom of Miss Coraline Connelly", "The Sycamore and the Sybil", "Do Not Look Back, My Lion", "The Whisper in the Weld", "Dustbaby", and four all-new short stories.

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Praise for this book

Praise for The Everlasting

[The Everlasting] is a feat of the ages. An utter masterpiece… It has scribbled itself over the heart line of my palm and there it will remain, as eternal as its namesake. I loved every single page. —Rachel Gillig, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of One Dark Window

"The loveliness of an Alix E. Harrow story is matched only by the exquisiteness of her craft...It's pure magic.—Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six

"No one writes about why we read quite like Alix Harrow…A wildly inventive, truly magical tour de force.” —Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning, on The Everlasting

“A beautiful novel about the stories that shape our lives and the divine and ordinary inevitability of love… If Una Everlasting stabbed me I’d die happy."--Lex Croucher, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Gwen & Art Are Not In Love

“This impressively constructed plot keeps the pages flying on the way to a stunning finale. Harrow remains at the top of her game.” -Publishers Weekly

"Combining an epic love story with meditations on storytelling, history, and power, Harrow achieves the perfect balance of these powerful themes. Readers will savor the legendary love and lives of Owen and Una. Highly recommended." - Booklist

“Harrow once again skillfully writes a story of love, loss, and choosing one’s own path, no matter what anyone else says (or writes).” -Library Journal

Praise for Starling House

"This book has everything you could possibly want this fall...a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid & eerie setting—plus, characters willing to risk everything." —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club October ’23 Pick)

"Mesmerizing.... Written in Alix’s trademark lyrical voice, this is a spellbinding book to savor and devour all at once." --Rebecca Ross, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals

“Harrow's lyrical prose propels this contemporary Southern gothic, offering an atmospheric fairy tale with delightfully jagged-edged characters.” –EW.com

"Starling House will no doubt take its place alongside fiction’s most memorable haunted houses.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Alix E. Harrow is a fantasy author who just does not miss.” —Paste Magazine




About the AuthorAlix E. Harrow is the New York Times–bestselling and Hugo Award–winning author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches, Starling House, and various short fiction. A former Kentuckian, Harrow now lives in Virginia with her husband and their two semi-feral kids. Her latest novel is The Everlasting.
Title: The Slantwise Histories : Collected Stories
Author(s): Alix E. Harrow
ISBN: 9781250345370
Copyright 2026
Release Date: October 20, 2026
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Countries: United States, Canada | Learn more about available countries
Language: English
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