Publications: Short stories
Cinderella (That Story) (2021)
in Fairy Tale Review: The Gold Issue (Vol.17, 2021), pp.94-96
Buck Moon (2019)
in: Kiss and Part: Short stories (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2019), pp. 1-17
This Place of Thorns (2019)
in: The Outcast Hours, ed. by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin (Oxford UK: Solaris, 2019), pp. 297-311
Fly Away Home (2015)
First published: UK: Salt 2015 saltpublishing.com A collection of following short stories: ‘Item, One Tortoiseshell Bag’, AnOther Magazine (2014) ‘A Chatelaine in the Making’, (2010) ‘Red Lightning’, written for the Staffordshire Hoard appeal National …
Ruby (2014)
in: Making a Record (Diamond, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald), essay for Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson (Some Artists’ Artists at Marian Goodman Gallery, 2014)
The First Time (2013)
in: The Story: Love, Loss & The Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories, ed. by Victoria Hislop (Head of Zeus, 2013), pp. 395-402
Murderers I Have Known and Other Stories (2010)
Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner’s stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear. In ‘Natural Limits’, a bereaved woman, c …
Leto’s Flight (2000)
in: Ovid: Metamorphosed, ed. by Philip Terry (London: Vintage, 2000)
Wonder Tales: Six Stories of Enchantment (1994)
Marina Warner has gathered together a magical collection of fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries. These are passionate, extraordinary, and occasionally proto-feminist retellings of classic fairy stories by women wh …
The Mermaids in the Basement: Stories (1994)
In this collection of short stories the author reworks familiar folklore and legend, from the Queen of Sheba and Ariadna after Naxos to the babysnatchers, rapists and seducers of the popular media imagination. Noah’s daughter-in-law and the Queen of Sh …