List of female witches and sorceresses in SF

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  • Bradley, Marion Zimmer. Witch Hill
    • The Mists of Avalon
  • Galford, Ellen. The Fires of Bride
  • Hand, Elizabeth. Waking the Moon.
  • Jakober, Marie. The Black Chalice (2000)
  • Joyce, Graham. Dark Sister (1999) [suburban housewife becomes a witch]
  • Kerr, Peg. The Wild Swans (1999) - AIDS story & retelling of old fairy tale. With real witches, and real witch-hunts, although not of real witches.
  • Kwasny, Melissa. Modern Daughters and the Outlaw West (Spinsters Book, San Francisco, 1990). A small Wyoming town is infested with quirky lesbians, ghosts, and politics. The witchery is subtle, practical, perhaps even spiritual ... Although it does break out into the open occasionally.
  • Lieber, Fritz. Conjure Wife (1943) (Secret society of, well, probably all women, are witches who really determine the success or failure of the men. Creepy & well-written.)
  • Maguire, Gregory. Wicked (Oz retelling)
  • Ore, Rebecca. Slow Funeral
  • Pollack, Rachel. Godmother Night
  • Rice, Anne. The Witching Hour
  • Rivers, Diana. Daughters of the Great Star.
    • The Hadra
  • Turk, H. C. Black Body
  • Updike, John. The Witches of Eastwick. I wouldn't really call this feminist per se, but it's lots of fun and there are memorable female characters who are sexual beings and have some feminist concerns.
  • Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-1978. Lolly Willowes or, The Loving Huntsman (1925) - a middle-aged English spinster accepts Satan in this amusing and engrossing work ... Highly recommended. -- lq, 1999

Anthologies

  • Shahrukh Husain, editor. Daughters of the Moon: Witch Tales From Around the World. (illustrated by Liane Payne). Boston, London: Faber & Faber, 1993.
  • Susan M. Shwartz, editor. Hecate's Cauldron

Movies

Many, many movies. But a few notable ones:

  • "Bell Book and Candle" (1958) Kim Novak & her family are Manhattan witches. "Bewitched" the TV series took a lot of cues from this story initially.
  • "The Witches of Eastwick" (1987) with an excellent cast (Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cher, Veronica Cartwright, and Jack Nicholson as, perhaps, the Devil).
  • "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997-2003 TV series) -- numerous witches, particularly Willow and Tara.

Others, Not Especially Feminist

  • Daley, Brian. The Doomfarers of Coramande and sequel - a kick-ass sorceress
  • Eddings, David. The Belgariad series: Polgara
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