Elizabeth Hand Boeken

Tijdens het Halloween-feest op een landgoed wordt het een jonge vrouw, kind van beroemde acteurs, duidelijk dat de drank en de drugs die rondgaan tot méér dienen dan enkel een decadent feest.

De University of the Archangels and Saint Jo the Dine is niet zomaar een universiteit. Hier worden studenten ingewijd in eeuwenoude heksenpraktijken en magisch rituelen. Minder bekend is dat de universiteit - een geheimzinnige plek waar dag en nacht verlicht altaren bewaakt door stenen engelen de sfeer bepalen - ook de thuisplaats is van de Benandanti, een sekte die zich tot doel heeft gesteld de herrijzenis van de maan in, een uiterst duistere macht, te voorkomen. Nog minder bekend is dat de Benandanti door de eeuwen heen elke regering, elke religie en elk invloedrijk instituut middels ontoelaatbare praktijken manipuleerden. De sympathieke Katherine Sweeney Cassidy ontdekt bij toeval het bestaan van de Benandanti, die ook de universiteit besturen. Aanvankelijk besteedt ze er weinig aandacht aan. Immers, de campus is voor haar in de eerste plaats een plek om te experimenteren, om nieuwe vrienden te maken, een tijd van vrijheid en ontdekkingen. Zoals met Oliver en Angelica, wier heftig liefdesleven, bij voorkeur beleefd onder een volle maan direct aanzet is tot de wederopstanding van de Maangodin...

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?

Novel to accompany the major Fox feature film, starring Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-Fat, which vividly brings to life the epic story of Anna and the King of Siam. Tie-in to the major 20th Century Fox feature film which tells the timeless story of Anna Leonowens, the English widow who became governess to the King of Siam's children. Written by Elizabeth Hand, acclaimed author of the novelizations for Twelve Monkeys and The X-Files Fight the Future, she brings to life this unique and immortal true story, so beloved from the long-running Broadway musical THE KING AND I. Romance, history and a lot of action.

"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."--

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."

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

A novelization based on the film of the same name. In 2035 the world has been decimated by a mysterious virus. A convict who lives underground with the few humans who have survived is offered a mission that could wipe out his sentence - to travel back to 1996 and trace the source of the virus.

Wanting to be a great bounty hunter like his father, Boba Fett travels to the desolate planet of Tatooine and risks death, torture, and enslavement to gain the knowledge of Jabba the Hutt, the biggest crime lord in the galaxy.

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.