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Short fiction that’s “poignant and terrifying by turns”—including a Nebula and World Fantasy Award–winning novella (Publishers Weekly).
Twelve exceptional stories by the multiple award–winning author of Waking the Moon and Black Light prove that Elizabeth Hand is just as adept with short fiction as she is in the novel form. The title story traces a world-changing summer at a New England artists’ colony for young Shadowmoon Starlight Rising, who comes to know life, death, and an unbelievable secret about the strange apparitions that dwell in her community.
Twelve exceptional stories by the multiple award–winning author of Waking the Moon and Black Light prove that Elizabeth Hand is just as adept with short fiction as she is in the novel form. The title story traces a world-changing summer at a New England artists’ colony for young Shadowmoon Starlight Rising, who comes to know life, death, and an unbelievable secret about the strange apparitions that dwell in her community.
Other stories include “Snow on Sugar Mountain,” which features a young boy who has the power to shapeshift into any form with the help of a Native American artifact; “The Bacchae,” in which womankind rules a savage futuristic version of our world; and “The Erl-King,” where a fairy tale horrifyingly comes true. Each story includes an afterword by the author.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
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“My first encounter with Elizabeth Hand's writing was her novel https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102885.Waking_the_Moon . I didn't really like it, but I was sort of angry about not liking it... It's like all of the elements of the novel are things that I usually enjoy, so it was a huge let down when the end product actually repulsed me.
I also tried reading another novel of Hand's, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102887.Black_Light , and hated it. I guess what happens is that Hand's writing includes themes that I like, but the stories she turns out end up being more disturbing than anything, and not in a good way. Her horror lacks a certain something, and instead of being stimulating it just winds up being plain disgusting.
That being said about her two novels that I have read, this collection of short stories was more of a mixed bag. Some of them disgusted me in the same way the novels did, while others were okay but overall kind of unimpressive. In the end I think there was only one story I can say that I actually liked, and that was "Snow on Sugar Mountain." I did enjoy that story quite a bit.
The rest of the stories generally contained bits and pieces I liked, but also elements that really turned me off. So only 2 stars for this book.”
About Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand is the author of sixteen multiple-award-winning novels and six collections of short fiction. She is a longtime reviewer for numerous publications, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her noir novels featuring punk photographer Cass Neary have been compared to the work of Patricia Highsmith and optioned for a TV series. Hand teaches at the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing and, when not living under pandemic conditions, divides her time between the Maine coast and North London.
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