Black Magic Women: 20 Novels of Witches and Witchcraft surveys the enduring literary figure of the witch across Gothic romance, historical fiction, supernatural adventure, moral allegory, and proto-weird fiction. Its selections range from ancestral curses and village suspicions to occult knowledge, spectral terror, and women whose perceived power unsettles religious, domestic, and political order. By bringing canonical Gothic atmospheres into conversation with popular romance and adventurous fantasy, the volume reveals witchcraft as both a source of sensation and a flexible language for social anxiety. The contributors span the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, linking Romantic and Victorian Gothic inheritances to imperial romance, regional fiction, American historical narrative, and the emerging weird tale. Authors associated with psychological ambiguity, antiquarian terror, social reform, and vigorous popular storytelling collectively demonstrate how accusations of sorcery could register fears concerning gender, class, race, sexuality, faith, and modernity. Women writers in particular complicate the stereotype of the witch, while the collection's transatlantic and European scope underscores the subject's cultural persistence. This anthology is recommended for students of Gothic literature, folklore, and gender studies, as well as general readers drawn to dark historical fiction. It offers an unusually broad opportunity to compare styles and eras within one volume, tracing productive dialogues between superstition, social critique, and imaginative terror.