Praise for Elizabeth Hand:

"Fiercely frightening yet hauntingly beautiful."—Tess Gerritsen, author of The Silent Girl

"A sinful pleasure."—Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love

No one is innocent, no one unexamined in award-winner Elizabeth Hand's new collection. From the summer isles to the mysterious people next door all the way to the odd guy one cubicle over, Hand teases apart the dark strangenesses of everyday life to show us the impossibilities, broken dreams, and improbable dreams that surely can never come true.

Elizabeth Hand's novels include Shirley Jackson Award–winner Generation Loss, Mortal Love, and Available Dark.

From award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first-ever novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House—a "scary and beautifully written" (Neil Gaiman) new story of isolation and longing perfect for our present time.
 
Open the door . . . . 
 
Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It’s enormous, old, and ever-so eerie—the perfect place to develop and rehearse her play.
 
Despite her own hesitations, Holly’s girlfriend, Nisa, agrees to join...]]> Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:41:29 +0200 https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/628501-hokuloa_road.html https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/628501-hokuloa_road.html

A young man is drawn into the dark side of paradise in this haunting and "perfectly crafted" mystery (Grady Hendrix), about the eerie secrets of one Hawai’ian island—a place where people have long vanished without a trace . . .

Photographer Cass Neary is desperate to get home, and she's already lost her camera—like losing a limb. Now her only chance is to cash in on a deal that a friend is about to cut for a legendary illuminated manuscript: The Book of Lamps and Banners. Rumored to have been rescued from the Library at Alexandria, the Book is said to contain ancient esoteric knowledge, even an otherworldly power.
So when an intruder brazenly steals the manuscript, Cass and her ex-con lover Quinn must get it back-plunging headlong into a shady underworld where antiquarian booksellers, unhinged tech entrepreneurs, and brutal nationalists all converge. This breathless psychological thriller, featuring one...]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2020 20:47:20 +0200 https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/220463-12_monkeys.html https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/220463-12_monkeys.html
Sent back in time from the year 2035 to 1990 to prevent the apocalypse that destroyed most of the earth, James Cole lands in a psychiatric ward under the care of Dr. Kathryn Railly, who begins to believe his wild story. Movie tie-in.]]> Thu, 16 Nov 1995 22:58:51 +0200 https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/230677-icarus_descending_w-3.html https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/230677-icarus_descending_w-3.html
Though billed as a novel about the Earth imperiled by a colliding asteroid, and though such an asteroid, called Icarus, does indeed threaten the planet in Hand's third novel, readers should not expect a familiar near-future disaster thriller. Instead, Hand combines a variety of science fiction elements into an original and colorful weave. Hundreds of years in the future, various factions war over Earth's fading resources, and ''geneslaves''―the products of genetic engineering―serve their human Masters. But that's changing. An ancient military android, dubbed Metatron, has fomented a rebellion of the geneslaves. The Aviator 'Imperator' Margalis Tast'annin, who died at the end of Hand's Winterlong but is now resurrected in a cyborg body, pursues Metatron. Meanwhile, other characters from Winterlong end up among the rebels. In all the confusion, warnings about the asteroid have gone unnoticed save by Metatron, who sees the coming cataclysm as the final blow against the Masters. Hand keeps the story moving briskly, and her future world is filled with vivid images made more striking by her evocative prose. The only drawback is the inconclusive ending―the story will obviously be resolved in a later book.]]> Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:07:54 +0200 https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/450039-maze_of_deception.html https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/450039-maze_of_deception.html
Don't miss the third adventure in the Boba Fett series! When Boba Fett's father, Jango Fett, died in the first Clone War battle, he left a fortune behind on the planet Aargau. Only bounty hunter Aurra Sing knows its location—but only Boba Fett can get to it—so they need each other to find and retrieve the fortune. But can they trust each other? As the search for his father's fortune becomes dangerously complicated, Boba Fett must outsmart his enemies, hidden and otherwise. His future depends on it.]]> Thu, 28 Nov 1991 18:44:29 +0200 https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/230675-waking_the_moon.html https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/230675-waking_the_moon.html
The reign of men has ended in this gripping thriller from Elizabeth Hand, and the fate of the world is on the line Sweeney Cassidy is the a typical college freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine in Washington, DC. She drinks. She parties. And she certainly doesn’t suspect that underneath its picturesque Gothic façade, the University is a haven for the Benandanti, a cult devoted to suppressing the powerful and destructive Moon Goddess. But everything is about to change as Sweeney learns that her two new best friends are the Goddess’s Chosen Ones. Rich and engrossing, Waking the Moon is a seductive post-feminist thriller that delves into an ancient feud, where the real and magical collide, and one woman is forced to make a decision that will change the world. Review FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem]]> Wed, 17 Nov 1993 08:07:53 +0200 https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/225844-glimmering.html https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/225844-glimmering.html
It’s 1999 and the world is falling apart at the seams. The sky is afire, the oceans are rising—and mankind is to blame. While the spoils of the 20 th Century dwindle, Jack Finnegan lives on the fringes in his decaying mansion, struggling to keep his life afloat and his loved ones safe while battling that most modern of diseases—AIDS. As the New Millennium approaches, Jack’s former lover, a famous photographer reveling in the world’s decay, gifts him with a mysterious elixir called Fusax , a medicine rumored to cure the incurable AIDS. But soon, the “side effects” of Fusax become more apparent, and Jack gets mixed up with a bizarre entourage of rock stars, Japanese scientists, corporate executives, AIDS victims, and religious terrorists. While these larger players compete to control mankind’s fate in the 21 st Century, Jack is forced to choose his own role in the World’s End, and how to live with it. Originally published in 1997, Glimmering is a visionary mix of fantasy and science fiction about a world in which humanity struggles to cope with the ever-approaching “End of the End.”]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:55:41 +0200 https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/440683-a_new_threat.html https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/440683-a_new_threat.html
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Four hundred years after the Third Shining, Hobi, Reive, Tast'annin, and Nefertity prepare for the prophesied collapse of Araboth, the domed city-state presumably protecting its citizens from the alleged horrors of the Outside. Philip K Dick Award (nominee)]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:55:42 +0200 https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/450038-pursuit.html https://nonfiction.library.land/elizabeth-hand/450038-pursuit.html
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