Christina Henry
1) Alice
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A mind-bending new novel inspired by the twisted and wondrous works of Lewis Carroll...In a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City, there stands a hospital with cinder-block walls which echo the screams of the poor souls inside. In the hospital, there is a woman. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back. She doesn't remember why she's in such a terrible place--just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Celia is trapped in a life that's not hers. Celia wakes up in a house that's supposed to be hers. There's a little girl who claims to be her daughter and a man who claims to be her husband, but Celia knows this family-and this life-is not hers... Allie is supposed to be on a fun weekend trip--but then her friend's boyfriend unexpectedly invites the group to a remote cabin in the woods. No one else believes Allie, but she is sure that something about...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him. Not even Ben Van Brunt's grandfather, Brom Bones, who was there when it was said the Horseman chased the upstart Ichabod Crane out of town--or snuffed out Crane's life by throwing his own head from a fell steed. Brom says that's just legend, the village gossips talking. More than thirty years after those storied events, the village is a quiet place. Fourteen-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that served as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She was just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that didn't look anything like the one...
5) The mermaid
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world and all its wonders, and so she came to live on land. Once there was a man called P. T. Barnum, a man who longed to make his fortune by selling the wondrous and miraculous, and there is nothing more miraculous than a real mermaid. Amelia agrees to play the mermaid for Barnum and walk among men in their world, believing she can leave...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The author of Alice takes readers back down the rabbit hole to a dark, twisted, and fascinating world based on the works of Lewis Carroll... The land outside of the Old City was supposed to be green, lush, hopeful. A place where Alice could finally rest, no longer the plaything of the Rabbit, the pawn of Cheshire, or the prey of the Jabberwocky. But the verdant fields are nothing but ash--and hope is nowhere to be found. Still, Alice and Hatcher...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On an island lives a boy called Peter and his band of merry lost boys, young forever. That is, unless they get sick or killed by pirates or eaten by crocodiles or unless--inexplicably--they grow old. For some of them do grow old, and nobody knows why. One of these boys is called Jamie, and he was the first boy that Peter ever brought to the island. Jamie's lived there for longer than he can remember, and it's not all fun and games. Peter thinks the...
8) Black city
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Ace mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Maddy finally killed her father, Azazel, she thought his depraved experiment died with him. But now Chicago has been infested with vampires immune to the effects of the sun, and the bloodbath is worse than she could have ever imagined. While the Agency refuses to interfere with other supernatural courts, Maddy is determined to do everything within her power to save her city,wings or no wings. But when the leader of the vampires requests that...
9) Black howl
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Ace mass market ed.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Something is wrong with the souls of Chicago's dead. Ghosts are walking the streets, and Agent of Death Madeline Black's exasperating boss wants her to figure out why. And while work is bad enough, Maddy has a plethora of personal problems too. Now that Gabriel has been assigned as her thrall, their relationship has hit an impasse. At least her sleazy ex-fiancé Nathaniel is out of the picture-or so she thinks ...
Contains mature themes.
10) Near the bone
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mattie can't remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they're not alone after all. There's something in the woods that wasn't there before, something that makes strange cries in the night, something with sharp teeth and claws. When three strangers appear on the mountaintop looking for the creature...
11) The ghost tree
Author
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the first horror novel from author Christina Henry, a monster stalks the residents of a sleepy town and a teenager who is increasingly plagued by terrifying visions. When the bodies of two girls are found torn apart in the town of Smiths Hollow, Lauren is surprised, but she also expects that the police won't find the killer. After all, the year before her father's body was found with his heart missing, and since then everyone has moved on. Even...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Harry Adams has always loved horror movies, so it's not totally a coincidence that she took the job cleaning house for movie director Javier Castillo. His forbidding graystone Chicago mansion, Bright Horses, is filled from top to bottom with terrifying props and costumes, as well as glittering awards from his career making horror films that thrilled audiences--until family tragedy and scandal forced him to vanish from the industry. Javier values...
13) Cursed
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"All the better to read you with... It's a prick of blood, the bite of an apple, the evil eye, a wedding ring or a pair of red shoes. Curses come in all shapes and sizes, and they can happen to anyone, not just those of us with unpopular stepparents... Here you'll find unique twists on curses, from fairy tale classics to brand-new hexes of the modern world -- expect new monsters and mythologies as well as twists on well-loved fables. Stories to shock...
Publisher
Black Spot Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xvii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories centered around the legendary character, Baba Yaga. They are filled with transformation, retribution, magic, and powerful women.
Deep in the dark forest, in a cottage that spins on birds legs behind a fence topped with human skulls, lives the Baba Yaga. A guardian of the water of life, she lives with her sisters and takes to the skies in a giant mortar and pestle, creating tempests as she goes. Those who come across the Baba...