Elizabeth Hand
No one is innocent, no one unexamined in award-winner Elizabeth Hand's new collection. From the summer isles to the mysterious people next door all the way to the odd guy one cubicle over, Hand teases apart the dark strangenesses of everyday life to show us the impossibilities, broken dreams, and improbable dreams that surely can never come true.,â€œTen evocative novellas and stories whisper of hidden mysteries carved on the bruised consciousness of victims and victimizers. Memories and love are as dangerous as the supernatural, and Hand often denies readers neat conclusions, preferring disturbing ambiguity. The Hugo-nominated â€œThe Maiden Flight of McCauleyâ€™s Bellerophonâ€ marries science fiction and magical realism as three men recreate a legendary aircraftâ€™s doomed flight for a dying woman. A grieving widower in â€œNear Zennorâ€ unearths a secret of spectral kidnapping in an ancient countryside. â€œHungerford Bridge,â€ a lesser piece, shares a secret that can only be enjoyed twice in oneâ€™s life. Celtic myth and human frailty entangle in the darkly romantic â€œThe Far Shore.â€ The vicious nature of romantic love is dissected with expressionistic abandon in the dreamlike â€œSummerteeth.â€ Handâ€™s outsiders haunt themselves, the forces of darkness answering to the calls of their battered souls. Yet strange hope clings to these surreal elegies, insisting on the power of human emotion even in the shadow of despair. Elegant nightmares, sensuously told.â€,â€”Publishers Weekly,Table of Contents,The Maiden Flight of McCauleyâ€™s Bellerophon,Near Zennor (a Shirley Jackson Award winner),Hungerford Bridge,The Far Shore,Winterâ€™s Wife,Cruel Up North,Summerteeth,The Return of the Fire Witch,Uncle Lou,Errantry,Elizabeth Hand,'s novels include Shirley Jackson Awardâ€“winner ,Generation Loss,, ,Mortal Love,, and ,Available Dark,.
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Errantry: Strange Stories