Elizabeth Hand Books in Order

On a ruined future Earth, Wendy Wanders searches for her missing twin brother, Raphael, in the decadent City of Trees. Their path crosses altered humans, ruling elites, and ancient forces that could consume what remains of the world.

In the domed city of Araboth, the Ascendants preserve a cruel hierarchy behind walls that keep nature out. As the Aestival Tide approaches, the resurrected Margalis Tast’annin becomes caught in the city’s obsessions with beauty, power, and control.

War spreads across the Earth and sky after the fall of Araboth. Wendy Wanders joins rebel forces while Margalis Tast’annin fights for the Ascendants, and a mysterious force called Icarus becomes central to the future of their shattered world.

At a Washington, D.C., university, Sweeney Cassidy encounters a secret order that has quietly shaped history for centuries. As an ancient moon goddess returns, Sweeney and her friends are drawn into a conflict of ritual, love, and power.

In 2035, prisoner James Cole is sent into the past to identify the source of a virus that destroyed civilization. His mission becomes a race through fractured memories, institutional doubt, and the threat of a catastrophe he may not stop.

As 1999 nears, climate disaster and social collapse reshape the world around Jack Finnegan. When an old lover offers him Fusax, an experimental cure for AIDS, Jack must decide what hope is worth in a rapidly changing world.

This story collection explores the uncanny edges of art, memory, grief, and desire. Its title novella follows Shadowmoon Starlight Rising through a life-changing summer at a New England artists’ colony where strange apparitions seem tied to the community’s past.

Widowed English teacher Anna Leonowens travels to 1860s Siam to educate King Mongkut’s children. As Anna and the king clash over custom, power, and reform, she becomes entangled in the pressures facing a country trying to resist colonial control.

Lit Moylan thinks her hometown is ordinary until her godfather, artist Axel Kern, returns and fills his hilltop house with decadent parties. A strange encounter reveals that Lit has a role in an older, more dangerous supernatural struggle.

In pre-Revolutionary France, a dazzling diamond necklace becomes the center of an elaborate scheme. This film novelization follows ambition, deception, and court intrigue as one woman’s gamble helps feed public anger against the French monarchy.

A collection of novellas where ordinary lives meet dark revelation, damnation, and fragile redemption. Hand’s characters confront private damage and unsettling mysteries as the supernatural presses into the spaces between art, memory, and everyday survival.

This film novelization follows Patience Phillips, a quiet designer transformed after uncovering the deadly secret behind a cosmetics company. Reborn as Catwoman, she uses her new powers to confront the people who thought they could erase her.

A mysterious woman moves through the lives of artists across more than a century, inspiring obsession and ruin. In modern London, journalist Daniel Rowlands follows clues tied to lost Pre-Raphaelite paintings and a dangerous, repeating pattern of love.

This collection gathers eight strange stories where magic enters ordinary lives through art, grief, history, and desire. The settings range from mythic landscapes to contemporary nightmares, with characters facing transformations they may not understand or control.

Once known for photographing New York’s punk scene, Cass Neary is sent to interview a legendary recluse on the Maine coast. A remote island, a damaged community, and an old disappearance draw her into a mystery with fresh victims.

First cousins Madeleine and Rogan are close friends, first loves, and devoted theater kids in a large artistic family. Casting them in *Twelfth Night* forces both to confront ambition, desire, and the separate lives waiting beyond their bond.

The Bride survives the destruction of Frankenstein’s laboratory and begins a new life under the name Pandora. Her journey through forgotten experiments and Weimar Germany expands the classic horror story into a tale of identity, pursuit, and creation.

A terminally ill aviation historian has a cherished theory about the first flight. Her friends decide to create evidence that will support it, turning a final act of kindness into a delicate story about belief, invention, and truth.

Cass Neary travels from Helsinki to Reykjavik to authenticate disturbing photographs and find a former lover. When a mutilated body turns up, she is pulled into murder, black metal, betrayal, and the unnerving beauty of Iceland’s winter landscape.

A collection of unsettling stories about people whose familiar worlds open onto something stranger. Across islands, neighborhoods, workplaces, and old memories, Hand explores broken dreams, private obsessions, and the moments when reality starts to slip.

In 1977, young artist Merle arrives in Washington, D.C., and is overwhelmed by the city’s art world. A strange connection links her to teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud a century earlier, letting two isolated artists reach across time.

Brendan struggles to connect with his young son Peter, who has a developmental disorder and recoils from his touch. As Christmas approaches, a small miracle offers the possibility of comfort, understanding, and a different kind of family connection.

After their lead singer dies, a British acid folk band retreats to an ancient country house to record an album. Their new singer vanishes without a trace, leaving behind conflicting memories and a house that may not be empty.

Photographer Cass Neary arrives in London hoping to reconnect with Quinn O’Boyle, her elusive old lover. When he disappears and dangerous people begin looking for them both, Cass is forced into a frantic search across London and rural England.

This compact collection centers on a new post-apocalyptic story about scientists and artists facing fast-moving global fires. It pairs climate anxiety with human-scale survival, showing people trying to save both a damaged world and one another.

In Chicago’s sweltering summer of 1915, fourteen-year-old Pin disguises herself as a boy and runs with a gang near Riverview amusement park. Behind the carnival lights, a killer is using the park’s shadows to hide terrible crimes.

Cass Neary needs money to get back to New York and has already sold her camera. When an old lover draws her into a deal for a rare illuminated manuscript, she finds that an ancient book can inspire very modern violence.

A career-spanning collection that brings together Elizabeth Hand’s short fiction across fantasy, horror, science fiction, and dark contemporary realism. The stories return to artists, outsiders, haunted places, and people confronting the strange forces beneath ordinary life.

Trying to escape his small-town Maine life, Grady Kendall takes a caretaker job on a remote Hawaiian island. The beautiful estate and its vanished residents soon reveal a darker side of paradise, with danger hiding behind the island’s polished image.

Playwright Holly Sherwin rents Hill House to develop a new play with her girlfriend and a group of actors. Strange sounds, shifting time, and growing tensions soon make clear that the house has plans for its temporary residents.