Elizabeth Hand je autorkou, jejíž díla často zkoumají temná a neprobádaná zákoutí lidské psychiky. Její psaní se vyznačuje bohatým jazykem a mrazivou atmosférou, která čtenáře vtáhne do fascinujících, avšak znepokojivých světů. Hand se zaměřuje na témata identity, transformace a hranic mezi realitou a iluzí, čímž vytváří díla, která rezonují ještě dlouho po dočtení. Její schopnost vytvářet komplexní postavy a napínavé dějové linie z ní činí jedinečný hlas v současné literatuře.
Hill House, ein unheimliches Herrenhaus in Upstate New York, wird von Holly Sherwin und drei Künstlern für Proben eines Theaterstücks über einen Hexenprozess genutzt. Doch das Haus birgt Geheimnisse: seltsame Stimmen, Blutflecke und mysteriöse Erscheinungen lassen die Grenze zwischen Inspiration und Gefahr verschwimmen.
When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique music, they hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house with dark secrets. There they create the album that will make their reputation, but at a terrifying cost: Julian Blake, the group’s lead singer, disappears within the mansion and is never seen or heard from again. Now, years later, the surviving musicians, along with their friends and lovers—including a psychic, a photographer, and the band’s manager—meet with a young documentary filmmaker to tell their own versions of what happened that summer. But whose story is true? And what really happened to Julian Blake?
The first novel to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House authorised by the Shirley Jackson estate
"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. TheBook 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"--
An intrepid young woman stalks a murderer through turn-of-the-century Chicago in "this rich, spooky, and atmospheric thriller that will appeal to fans of Henry Darger and Erik Larson alike." (Sarah McCarry) In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell Gate ride with a young girl, and emerge alone, she knows that something horrific has occurred. The crime will lead her to the iconic outsider artist Henry Darger, a brilliant but seemingly mad man. Together, the two navigate the seedy underbelly of a changing city to uncover a murderer few even know to look for.
"Cass arrives in London where she meets and is reunited with her long-lost lover, Quinn O'Boyle, who is wanted by both Interpol and the Russian mob. When Quinn then fails to show at their rendezvous point, Cass is fearful she'll be the next to disappear, and she goes on the run."--
Cassandra Neary ist Fotografin und sowohl für ihr gutes Auge als auch ihre schonungslosen Bilder bekannt. Ein Kunstsammler namens Bredahl betraut sie mit einem mysteriösen Auftrag: Cass soll für ihn nach Helsinki fliegen, um dort sechs Aufnahmen auf ihre Authentizität hin zu überprüfen. Doch was sie sieht, lässt ihr das Blut in den Adern gefrieren: Die Fotos zeigen atemberaubend schöne, dunkle Eislandschaften — und darin Menschen, die auf brutale Weise ermordet wurden. In welche gefährliche Geschichte wird Cass hineingezogen?
A photographer whose shots of New York's punk scene in the seventies earned her fame, cache, and a cultish kind of cool, Cass Neary has spent much of her life in the dark, watching and waiting. But 30 years later she is alone, adrift and falling rapidly into oblivion. So when an old acquaintance asks her to interview a fellow photographer - a notorious recluse who lives on an island off the Maine coast - she accepts. There, she learns about a decades-old crime that is still claiming new victims - and comes to realise that her days of living dangerously are not over yet."
Hand's award winning stories begin in the shimmery, dusty corners of upstate New York and move into even stranger settings.
This collection of 27 never-before published stories from an impressive cast—Roddy Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Stuart O'Nan, among others—sets out to shift genre paradigms. The overarching theme is fantastic fiction, or fiction of the imagination, with fantasy being used in the most broad-sweeping sense rather than signaling the familiar commercial staples of elves, ghouls, and robots. Consequently, the collection's offerings run a wide gamut. In Joe Hill's Devil on the Staircase, an Italian boy commits a crime of passion and subsequently meets an emissary of Satan. In Jodi Picoult's Weights and Measures, a young couple who have just lost their daughter struggle to hold their marriage together as they both start noticing strange changes taking place. Chuck Palahniuk's The Loser features a college kid on acid as a contestant on a game show, and in Kurt Andersen's Human Intelligence, a geologist meets an explorer from another planet who has been studying humans for the past 1,600 years. The range of voices and subjects practically guarantees something for any reader, but the overall quality is frustratingly variable: most stories are good, some aren't, and few are exceptional —Publishers Weekly
