Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit | 1987 | Storm Constantine | Buy |
| 2 | Wraeththu | 1987 | Storm Constantine | N/A |
| 3 | The Bewitchments of Love and Hate | 1988 | Storm Constantine | Buy |
| 4 | The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire | 1989 | Storm Constantine | Buy |
| 5 | The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure | 2003 | Storm Constantine | N/A |
| 6 | Wraeththu - the Picture Book | 2005 | Storm Constantine | Buy |
| 7 | The Shades of Time and Memory | 2004 | Storm Constantine | N/A |
| 8 | Paragenesis | 2010 | Storm Constantine | Buy |
| 9 | The Ghosts of Blood and Innocence | 2005 | Storm Constantine | N/A |
| 10 | Para Imminence | 2012 | Storm Constantine | Buy |
| 11 | Para Kindred | 2014 | Storm Constantine | Buy |
The Wraeththu series is Storm Constantine’s most significant work, spanning the original trilogy, a second trilogy (Wraeththu Histories), companion novellas (Wraeththu Mythos), a picture book, and related volumes published between 1987 and 2014. The series imagines a world where humanity is giving way to the Wraeththu, a new species that is hermaphroditic, longer-lived, and capable of magic.
The original trilogy – The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate, and The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire – follows Pellaz, a human who is transformed into Wraeththu and drawn into the political and spiritual conflicts of this new race. The books were groundbreaking in the late 1980s for their frank treatment of gender fluidity and non-binary identity within a fantasy framework. Constantine returned to the world in the 2000s with the Wraeththu Histories trilogy and continued expanding it through novellas and companion texts.
The series has a devoted cult following and is often cited as an important precursor to more recent fantasy fiction that explores gender and identity. Constantine’s prose is lush and sensory, and the books create a complete imagined culture with its own religion, politics, art, and social structures.