Elizabeth Hand

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1990
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Cass Neary Crime Novel

1 - Available Dark (Feb-2012)
2 - Hard Light (Apr-2016)

Multi-Author Series List

Star Wars

Maze Of Deception (Apr-2003)
Hunted (Oct-2003)
A New Threat (Apr-2004)
Pursuit (Oct-2004)

Young Boba Fett

3 - Maze Of Deception (Apr-2003)
4 - Hunted (Oct-2003)
5 - A New Threat (Apr-2004)
6 - Pursuit (Oct-2004)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • Winterlong

    The “sensuous and evocative” debut of the Nebula Award–winning author of Waking the Moon: A dystopian journey through a world unburdened by moral taboos (Library Journal).  Set in the surreal, post-apocalyptic City of Trees, Wi...

  • Aestival Tide

    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...

  • Icarus Descending

    Wendy Wanders and Margalis return in the thrilling conclusion of the Winterlong trilogy—and their lives hang on one question: “What is Icarus?”Araboth is destroyed, open war rules both the earth and sky, and Margalis Tast’anni...

  • Waking the Moon

    LOVE IS ANCIENT BUT EVIL IS ETERNAL Like all new students, Katherine Sweeney Cassidy moves with caution at Washington, D.C.'s University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine. It is a strange place of brooding shrines and gleaming towers, guar...

  • 12 Monkeys

    Sent back in time from the year 2035 to 1990 to prevent the apocalypse that destroyed most of the earth, James Cole lands in a psychiatric ward under the care of Dr. Kathryn Railly, who begins to believe his wild story. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Last Summer at Mars Hill

    Mars 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 th...

  • Glimmering

    It is 1999. The Last Days, or some say, the First. The climate has warmed dramatically, the cities have imploded into riotous shards, and the sky is a glimmering array of reds and greens and golds. In fin dc siecle New York, a millionaire publishe...

  • The Frenchman

    Moving back to Seattle to escape the emotional burden of his work for the FBI's Violent Crimes section, retired FBI agent Frank Black discovers that his talent for "seeing what the killer sees" comes in handy when a serial killer begins to stalk the ...

  • The X-Files: Fight the Future

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  • Black Light

    When notorious Axel Kern returns home to quiet Kamesic 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 mad...

  • Anna and the King

    Arriving in Siam as governess to the King's royal children, the recently widowed Anna brings with her a fiercely independent spirit, a passion for justice, and a hidden loneliness.

    As Anna learns more about her exotic students and their prou...

  • The Affair of the Necklace

    The child Jeanne Valois lost her family, her home, and her fortune to the greed of an influential aristocrat. Now grown into a proud young woman of rare beauty and exceptional wiles, she has gained entrance to the court of Louis XVI and exquisite,...

  • Maze Of Deception

    Star Wars
    Young Boba Fett - 3

    TRUST NO ONE. ESPECIALLY A BOUNTY HUNTER. When he died in the first Clone Wars battle, Jango Fett left a fortune somewhere on the planet Aargau. The bounty hunter Aurra Sing is the only person who knows where the fortune is. But Jango's son, Boba Fe...

  • Hunted

    Star Wars
    Young Boba Fett - 4

    HIS FIRST MISSION MAY BE HIS LAST On the barren planet of Tatooine, young Boba Fett is surrounded by criminals, mercenaries, and thieves. In his quest to become a bounty hunter, he is searching out the greatest crime lord of all - Jabba the Hutt. B...

  • A New Threat

    Star Wars
    Young Boba Fett - 5

    A POWERFUL ENEMY IS THE GREATEST DANGER When you work for Jabba the Hutt, you do whatever he wants you to do - no matter what the risk. As Jabba's newest bounty hunter, Boba Fett has a lot to prove... and little time to prove it. So when Jabba sends...

  • Catwoman

    There's a new Catwoman in town--a feline adventuress unlike any you've seen before. Discover all her sizzling secrets as she cracks her whip and sinks her claws into her most petrifying, death-defying adventure yet. Patience Philips is a shrinking...

  • Mortal Love

    Swirling between eras and continents, Mortal Love is an intense novel of unforgettable characters caught in a whirlwind of art, love, and intrigue. Mercurial Larkin Meade may hold the key to lost artistic masterpieces, and to secrets too devastating ...

  • Pursuit

    Star Wars
    Young Boba Fett - 6

    A FATHER'S DEATH. A SON'S REVENGE. Boba Fett is emerging as one of the most skilled bounty hunters in the galaxy. After surviving his deadly battle with the fearsome General Grievous, there's one bounty he wants more than any other: Mace Windu, the ...

  • The Bride of Frankenstein

    Attempting to create life through dreadful experiments, Henry Frankenstein and Dr. Pretorius instead created unspeakable horror: two misshapen monsters, a brutish male and his female mate, stitched together from the bodies of cadavers. Crafted to be ...



  • Saffron and Brimstone

    Widely praised and widely read, Elizabeth Hand is regarded as one of America's leading literary fantasists. This new collection (an expansion of the limited-release Bibliomancy, which won the World Fantasy Award in 2005) showcases a wildly inventive ...

  • Illyria

    Madeleine and Rogan are first cousins, best friends, each other's first love. Their intensity and passion for theater sets them apart. It also makes them a little dangerous....

  • Generation Loss

    "Startling, unclassifiable. . . Full of mysteries -- all originating in its characters’ troubled psyches -- and full of terrors that can’t be explained." -- New York TimesShirley Jackson Award winner.Praise for Elizabeth Hand’s previou...

  • Radiant Days

    She is a painter. He is a poet. Their art bridges time. It is 1978. Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art, catapulted from her impoverished Appalachian upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene. It is also 1870. The tee...

  • Available Dark

    A Cass Neary Crime Novel - 1

    Photographer Cass Neary is already wanted by the police for questioning when she receives a mysterious job offer that sends her to Helsinki, where an iconic fashion photographer shows her a trove of gorgeous photos depicting ritual killings. After na...

  • Season of Wonder

    • Wonders abound with the winter holidays. Yuletide brings marvels and miracles both fantastic and scientific. Christmas spirits can bring haunting holidays, seasonal songs might be sung by unearthly choirs, and magical celebrations are the no...

  • Errantry

    Praise for Elizabeth Hand:"Fiercely frightening yet hauntingly beautiful." -- Tess Gerritsen, author of The Silent Girl"A sinful pleasure." -- Katherine Dunn, author of Geek LoveNo one is innocent, no one unexamined in award-winner Elizabeth Hand's n...

  • Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol

    The father of an autistic child dreams of a Christmas miracle in this moving short novel nominated for the World Fantasy Award -- proceeds to be donated to Autism Speaks When Brendan touches his four-year-old son, Peter screams and pulls away. He ...

  • Wylding Hall

    In the aftermath of the mysterious death of their lead singer, the young members of a now-legendary British acid folk band hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient English country house with its own dark secrets. There they record Wylding Hall, the album ...

  • Hard Light

    A Cass Neary Crime Novel - 2

    Punk photographer Cass Neary, “one of noir’s great anti-heroes” (Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love), rages back in the series that began with the award-winning novels Generation Loss and Available Dark. Fleeing Reykjavik and a cluster of cult...



  • Fire

    Hand, Elizabeth, or Liz as she’s known to her colleagues, students, and devoted fans, is a maverick in modern fiction: a fearless literary sojourner whose award-winning novels and short stories mix murder and magic, high fantasy and post-punk noir ...

  • Curious Toys

    The year is 1915 and Pin, the fifteen year-old daughter of an amusement park fortune teller, disguises herself as a boy to run with the teenage boys who thrive in the dregs of Chicago's street scene. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dweller...

  • The Book of Lamps and Banners

    Acclaimed crime writer Elizabeth Hand returns to her "fiercely frightening yet hauntingly beautiful" cult-favorite series: Photographer Cass Neary is hard-up for cash and in more danger than she realizes on the hunt for an ancient, legendary book (Te...

  • The Best of Elizabeth Hand

    In novels such as Mortal Love, Glimmering and Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand has established herself as one of the most gifted, unclassifiable writers working in America today. Her equally brilliant short fiction has received numerous awards, setting a...

  • For Sale by Owner

    in When Things Get Dark

    The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today’s best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones...

  • Hokuloa Road

    A young man is drawn into the dark side of paradise in this "brilliantly atmospheric" (New York Times Book Review) and "refreshingly creepy" (Washington Post) mystery. A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 On a whim, Grady Kendall applies t...

  • A Haunting on the Hill

    From award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first-ever novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House -- an "eerily beautiful, strangely seductive, and genuinely upsetting" (Alix E. Harrow) ne...

Award-Winning Books by Elizabeth Hand

Available Dark
2012 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Mystery
Illyria
2008 World Fantasy Award -- Novella
Last Summer at Mars Hill
1995 World Fantasy Award -- Novella
1996 Nebula Award -- Novella


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elizabeth Hand has published 36 books.

Elizabeth Hand does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Haunting on the Hill, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Elizabeth Hand, Winterlong, was published in January 1990.

Yes. Elizabeth Hand has 1 series.
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