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Tracy Fahey

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Born

Ireland

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Fiction

Influences

Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Donna Tartt

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Tracy Fahey is an award-winning Irish author of nine books. Her collection 'I Spit Myself Out' won the 2025 Rubery International Book Award, and her novella 'What Happens At The End' was awarded the 2024 Paul Cave Prize for Literature. Fahey has been a British Fantasy Award finalist in 2017, 2022, and 2024. In 2023 she was granted a Saari Fellowship by the Kone Foundation. Her short fiction is published in more than sixty Irish, US and UK anthologies and shortlisted for Fractured Literary and the London Independent Story Prize. Her writing is supported by residencies in Ireland, Scotland, Finland and Greece. She holds a PhD on the Gothic and lectures in creative writing and horror studies at the Limerick School of Art and Design, TUS.

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	The Fiends in the Furrows II: More Tales of Folk Horror by David T. Neal (Editor), Christine M. Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alys Hobbs 4.04 avg rating — 268 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shallow Waters, Vol. 1 by Joe Mynhardt (Editor), Chad Lutzke (Goodreads Author), Tracy Fahey (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Graveyard Smash : Women of Horror Anthology, Volume 2 by Jill Girardi (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christy Aldridge (Goodreads Author), Carmen Baca (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 117 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unheimlich Manoeuvre 4.47 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Spit Myself Out 4.61 avg rating — 23 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	They Shut Me Up by Tracy Fahey (Goodreads Author), Marie O'Regan (Introduction) 4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Music for Old Rituals 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl in the Fort 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unheimlich Manoeuvres in the Dark 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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QUEENS OF THE CRONE AGE (2026, PS Publishing) - cover reveal and pre-order links

Back in 2021, writing QUEENS OF THE CRONE AGE was something that wasn’t in my five-year plan. I’d taken an unpaid sabbatical—my first career break in thirty years– born from exhaustion, and the strong desire to make a reckless change. So in October 2021, I started on a dream residency in Cill Rialaig, County Kerry. And that’s where I met the Hag, and all my carefully-laid plans fell apart. On Bolu Read more of this blog post »

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Tracy Fahey and 1 other person liked Julia Rust's review of They Shut Me Up: "“We all deserve to have a voice.” Fahey sets us up in the prologue to her beautiful novella about women’s voices lost and found. The novella starts with Annie McMahon attending a cringe-worthy office birthday party, and ends with Annie finding her vo" Read more of this review »
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Tracy Fahey and 1 other person liked Heather Ventura's review of They Shut Me Up: "Absolutely brilliant! I’ll be giving this one out as a gift. I empathized with Annie McMahon so quickly. Part body horror, part history, part suspense. A must read. "
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“We're born alone. We spend our lives trying to connect outside ourselves. Loneliness terrifies us; we define our very selves in relation to others. We reach out constantly. We need to feel we matter. We fall in love--or tell ourselves we do--to feel that intimate connection. We grow babies inside ourselves to fill that need. So much of what we do is an attempt to stave off the stark isolation of being ourselves in our own bodies.”
― Tracy Fahey, I Spit Myself Out

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“And last of all, a kiss goodbye. I touch my lips to her smooth, cold forehead. ‘Goodbye and good luck.’ I love the pleasant dead.”
― Tracy Fahey, I Spit Myself Out

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“I've finally stopped running away from myself. And now I can't find my way back.”
― Tracy Fahey, I Spit Myself Out

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