{"title":"Elizabeth Hand","description":"Elizabeth Hand is the author of Hokuloa Road, named a Notable Book of 2022 by the New York Times,  and more than nineteen cross-genre novels and collections of short fiction. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award (three times), the World Fantasy Award (four times), the Nebula Award (twice), as well as the James M. Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society Awards, and she's written for publications including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Boston Review, and more. She divides her time between Maine and London.","products":[{"product_id":"a-haunting-on-the-hill-paperback","title":"A Haunting on the Hill - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first-ever novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ean \"e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eerily beautiful, strangely seductive, and genuinely upsetting\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\" (Alix E. Harrow) new story of isolation and longing perfect for our present time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Named a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e**\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOpen the door . . . \u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play \u003ci\u003eWitching Night\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Despite her own hesitations, Holly's girlfriend, Nisa, agrees to join Holly in renting the house for a month, and soon a troupe of actors, each with ghosts of their own, arrive. Yet as they settle in, the house's peculiarities are made known: strange creatures stalk the grounds, disturbing sounds echo throughout the halls, and time itself seems to shift. All too soon, Holly and her friends find themselves at odds not just with one another, but with the house itself. It seems something has been waiting in Hill House all these years, and it no longer intends to walk alone . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A fitting--and frightening--homage.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It's thrilling to find this is a true hybrid of these two ingenious women's work--a novel with all the chills of Jackson that also highlights the contemporary flavor and evocative writing of Hand.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Only the brilliant Elizabeth Hand could so expertly honor Jackson's rage, wit, and vision.\" --Paul Tremblay","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101171323103,"sku":"9780316527477","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/F4ZaX43-zJ9780316527477.webp?v=1781068399"},{"product_id":"last-summer-at-mars-hill-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"Last Summer at Mars Hill: And Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eMars Hill spiritualist community, founded 1883. It's nothing fancy. Just a faded resort on the rocky Maine Coast, inhabited by aging hippies, their rebellious children--and the elusive, shimmering spirits known as \"the Golden Ones.\" They are the reason Mars Hill exists. Not everyone can see Them, but everyone can feel their healing presence. Even fetching, skeptical, young Moony Rising, who has come to say farewell to everything she ever loved. And to learn a secret more wondrous than love itself... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Twelve exceptional stories, including the title novella, by the multiple award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eWaking the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Light, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGlimmering\u003c\/i\u003e prove that Elizabeth Hand is just as adept with short fiction as she is in the novel form. The title story traces a world-changing summer at a New England artists' colony for young Shadowmoon Starlight Rising, who comes to know life, death, and an unbelievable secret about the strange apparitions that dwell in her community. Other stories include \"Snow on Sugar Mountain,\" which features a young boy who has the power to shapeshift into any form with the help of a Native American artifact; \"The Bacchae,\" in which womankind rules a savage futuristic version of our world; and \"The Erl-King,\" where a fairy tale horrifyingly comes true. 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