Nina Kiriki Hoffman

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1990
  • Latest Book:
    August 2020
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About the Author

Nina Kiriki Hoffman is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer. She started publishing short stories in 1975, her first nationally published short story appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in 1985 and has since published over 200 in various anthologies and magazines. She lives in Eugene, Oregon with her cats. She is a member of the Wordos writers' group.

Full Series List in Order

Chapel Hollow

1 - The Thread That Binds the Bones (May-1993)
2 - The Silent Strength of Stones (Sep-1995)
3 - Spirits That Walk in Shadow (Oct-2006)

LaZelle

1 - A Fistful of Sky (Nov-2002)
2 - Fall of Light (May-2009)

Magic Next Door

1 - Thresholds (Aug-2010)
2 - Meeting (Aug-2011)

Spores Ferry

0.5 - A Stir of Bones (Sep-2003)
1 - A Red Heart of Memories (Oct-1999)
2 - Past the Size of Dreaming (Mar-2001)

Multi-Author Series List

Fear Street: Ghosts of Fear Street

14 - Body Switchers from Outer Space (Oct-1996)
23 - Why I'm Not Afraid of Ghosts (Aug-1997)
30 - I Was a Sixth Grade Zombie (Apr-1998)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Imprint

    in Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge
    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    cutting-edge fiction has never sliced so deeply Reach beyond the limits of convention and rationality and into the darkest corners of the human soul in this new volume of taboo-shattering short fiction. Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge continues...

  • The Thread That Binds the Bones

    Chapel Hollow - 1

    Winner of the Bram Stoker Award: Tom can see ghosts -- and that’s the least of his gifts. Now he must harness his newfound magic to save Chapel Hollow. A drifter trying to hide his extraordinary powers -- and find a place where he belongs -- Tom Re...

  • The Silent Strength of Stones

    Chapel Hollow - 2

    In summer, magic is warmly borne on the gentle, wafting breeze. It is a season of many wonders, with many secrets ripe for discovering ... and some best left in shadow, unexplored. Summer has come to Sauterelle Lake. And inquisitive young Nick is ...

  • The First Excuse

    in Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters II

    An ultimate scary tale collection for readers with monsters on the brain celebrates the creepy beasties of the forest, swamp, school bus, and vending machines, and highlights creatures that may even turn out to be a best friend. Original....

  • Body Switchers from Outer Space

    Fear Street: Ghosts of Fear Street - 14

    COME BACK WITH MY BODY! Will "the Spill" is a total klutz. He'd give anything to be Chad -- the most popular kid in school -- just for one day. Chad never trips, or falls, or drops anything. Then Will gets his wish. Chad says he's got a body-swit...

  • Why I'm Not Afraid of Ghosts

    Fear Street: Ghosts of Fear Street - 23

    Oliver Brown doesn’t believe in ghosts. Even though he lives in a house on Fear Street that’s chock full of them! Robbie should know -- he’s one of the ghosts. And his new neighbor doesn’t scare easy -- even though he’s tried everything he ...

  • I Was a Sixth Grade Zombie

    Fear Street: Ghosts of Fear Street - 30

  • A Red Heart of Memories

    Spores Ferry - 1

    Matilda "Matt" Black possesses the unique ability to speak with inanimate objects and witness the dreams of other people. Alone, yet never lonely, she’s now found a kindred spirit in Edmund Reynolds -- a wandering witch of a spiritual quest to help...

  • Suspended Animation

    in Warrior Fantastic

    ALAN DEAN FOSTER * JEAN RABE DIANA L. PAXSON * FIONA PATTON TIM WAGGONER * DAVID BISCHOFF JANET PACK * PAULINE E. DUNGATE * NINA KIRIKI HOFFMAN * KRISTINE SCHWENGEL JODY LYNN NYE * BRADLEY H. SINOR BILL FAWCETT * GARY A. BRAUNBECK CHARLES DE L...



  • Secret Identities

    in Single White Vampire Seeks Same

    The personals ads are certainly a prime source for people's private fantasies, some of which end in happiness, while others turn into total disasters. But what if there was something "special" about either the placer of the ad or the one who answered...

  • Past the Size of Dreaming

    Spores Ferry - 2

    The Nebula and World Fantasy Award-nominated author of A Red Heart of Memories continues the spellbinding story of the wandering witch Matilda (Matt) Black, who possesses the ability to communicate with inanimate objects and see into people’s dream...

  • A Fistful of Sky

    LaZelle - 1

    Gypsum LaZelle had nearly given up. She’d already watched her two older siblings experience the transition -- the sudden, debilitating process that turned them from ordinary children into mages, gifted spellcasters like their beautiful mother. Perh...

  • Time Travelers, Ghosts, and Other Visitors

  • A Stir of Bones

    Spores Ferry - 0.5

    A Stir of Bones is the stand-alone prequel to acclaimed fantasist Nina Hoffman's award-winning adult novels A Red Heart of Memories and Past the Size of Dreaming. It is every bit as remarkable, warm, and heartwrenching.

    Fourteen-year-old Susa...

  • The Power of Waking

    in The Many Faces of Van Helsing

    When 11-year-old Abraham van Helsing attends the scientific unwrapping of a mummy with the father, he discocvers a power from beyond the grave lingers in a strange, bird-shapped amulet hidden in the wrappings. Its impact on his young mind will last a...

  • Catalyst

    Running from a bully, a young man leaps into a strange cave -- a place that will transform him forever. Sliding down the slippery slope, Kaslin enters a physical world ruled by an alien intelligence, one so interesting that he almost forgets to be sc...

  • Spirits That Walk in Shadow

    Chapel Hollow - 3

    “A Wildly inventive and surprisingly playful sci-fi thriller.” -- Washington Post Roommates Jaimie Locke and Kim Calloway are each looking to find a new life at college. It’s Jaimie’s first time Outside -- away from her large, complicate...

  • Fall of Light

    LaZelle - 2

    Opal LaZelle is a special effects make-up artist, transforming actors into fantastical and grotesque creatures. Unknown to the casts and crews of the films she works on, Opal is gifted in the art of magic?and she applies more than make-up when alteri...

  • Thresholds

    Magic Next Door - 1

    Maya's family has just moved to Oregon. She's nervous about starting middle school and making new friends, but soon that's the last thing on her mind. First a fairy flies into her room. Then she finds out that the kids who live next door, in the Janu...



  • Meeting

    Magic Next Door - 2

    When Maya Andersen and her family moved to Spores Ferry, Oregon, they didn't know there'd be magic right next door. Their new neighbors in the Janus House Apartments all have unusual powers, and the basement is a Grand Central Station to other worlds...

  • Ghost Hedgehog

    With all the places ghosts could go, why do they keep hanging around me?...

  • Permeable Borders

    "Over the past 30 years, Hoffman has received more than 30 nominations for a wide variety of awards...This collection of 16 fantastical stories, drawn from the latter half of her career to date and including one story not previously collected, highli...

  • Permeable Border

    From Publishers Weekly starred review: “Over the past 30 years, Hoffman has received more than 30 nominations for a wide variety of awards...This collection of 16 fantastical stories, drawn from the latter half of her career to date and including o...

  • Fiction River

    Theft. Our reaction to it can vary based on what was stolen. We might crave stolen moments but fear stolen possessions. We might delight in a stolen kiss but feel the loss of stolen time. The thirteen stories in this volume explore theft in many diff...

Award-Winning Books by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

The Thread That Binds the Bones
1994 Bram Stoker Award -- First Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nina Kiriki Hoffman has published 24 books.

Nina Kiriki Hoffman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fiction River, was published in August 2020.

The first book by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Imprint, was published in January 1990.

Yes. Nina Kiriki Hoffman has 4 series.
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