MORTAL LOVE(2004)

Hand explores the theme of artistic inspiration and its dangerous devolvement into obsession and madness through three interwoven narrative threads in this superb dark fantasy novel... Hand does a marvelous job of making the ineffable tangible, lacing her tale with references to the work of artists ranging from Algernon Swinburne to Kurt Cobain and capturing the intense emotions of her characters in exquisitely sculpted prose. With its authentic period detail and tantalizing spirit of mystery, this timeless tale of desire and passion should reach many readers beyond her usual fantasy base.

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BIBLIOMANCY(2003)

From Elizabeth Hand, one of America's leading literary fantasists, comes a collection of extraordinary novellas of damnation and dark revelation, epiphany and redemption. Written in the author's characteristic poetic prose, and rich with the detail of lives traumatic yet luminously transformed, these stories form a remarkable tapestry interweaving the supernatural and the mundane.

Bibliomancy won the World Fantasy Award and was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award by the Horror Writers of America, a Intenational Horror Guild Award, and appeared on Locus Magazine's Year's Best lists.

The collection includes the first print appearance of the short novel "Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol," along with "The Least Trumps", "Cleopatra Brimstone" and "Pavane for a Prince of the Air". Introduction by Lucius Shephard and story notes by the author. Cover art by 19th century painter John Anster Fitzgerald. (see left) Both "Pavane for a Prince of the Air" and "Cleopatra Brimstone" have won International Horror Guild Awards, and "The Least Trumps" was on the shortlist for BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2003, edited by Walter Mosley. "Chip Crockett," an homage to the late, legendary Joey Ramone, continues to wait for its chance to become an animnated Christmas Special.

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BLACK LIGHT(1999)

When notorious Alex Kern returns home to quiet Kamensic Village and embarks on a series of frenzied parties and gala revels, teenager Lit Golding becomes caught in the middle of Kern's plans to be reborn as Dionysus, the ancient god of ecstasy and madness.

LAST SUMMER AT MARS HILL(1998)

A collection of short stories centers around Mars Hill--a place where a healing presence know as Them exists and where young, dubious Moony Rising learns an amazing and powerful secret surpassing all the love she has ever known.

GLIMMERING (1997)

In the violence- and pollution-stricken world of 1999, HIV-positive publisher Jack Finnegan is drawn into the seductive web of Leonard Thorpe, who possesses a magical elixir that cures Jack and transforms his world.

WAKING THE MOON(1995)

Beginning her first year at the University of the Archangels, Katherine Sweeney Cassidy accidentally discovers the existence of the Benandanti, a clandestine order that has been secretly manipulating the world's governments and institutions.

ICARUS DESCENDING(1993)

The energumens, creatures who are the result of centuries of genetic engineering, threaten to come to earth to lead the other bioengineered slave races in a war against humanity.

AESTIVAL TIDE(1992)

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.

WINTERLONG (1990)