Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Best British Short Stories 2017 | 2017 | Buy |
| Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold | 2019 | Buy |
Collections
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Fen | 2016 | Buy |
| The Hotel: Ghost Stories with a Feminist Twist | 2021 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Everything Under | 2018 | Buy |
| Sisters | 2020 | Buy |
Daisy Johnson is a British writer whose work blends literary fiction with gothic and folkloric elements. She burst onto the scene with her short story collection Fen (2016), which reimagines the English fenlands as a place where the strange and supernatural leak into everyday life. Stories in the collection feature women and girls transforming, disappearing, or being claimed by the landscape itself.
Her debut novel, Everything Under (2018), retells the Oedipus myth through a story about a woman reconnecting with her long-lost mother, a former houseboat dweller. The book made Johnson the youngest writer ever shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her second novel, Sisters (2020), is a taut psychological story about two siblings with a co-dependent bond that turns dangerous. She has also contributed to anthologies, including Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold (2019), and published The Hotel (2021), a collection of ghost stories.
Johnson’s writing draws heavily on myth, fairy tale, and the English countryside. Her prose tends toward the uncanny, finding horror in domestic spaces and familiar relationships.