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Christina Henry

    August 13, 1974

    Christina Henry is celebrated for her dark and unsettling reimaginings of classic fairy tales, offering fresh perspectives on familiar characters and narratives. Her works delve deeply into the psychological complexities of her characters, presenting unconventional motivations that push the boundaries of the genre. Henry masterfully weaves together a disquieting atmosphere with compelling storytelling, creating narratives that draw readers into worlds filled with unexpected twists and moral ambiguities. Her ability to reinterpret and revitalize age-old stories makes her a distinctive voice in contemporary fantasy literature.

    Christina Henry
    Black Howl
    Black Spring
    Black City
    Black Heart
    Lost Boy
    Alice - Signed Edition
    • 2024

      Alice - Signed Edition

      • 325 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.3(15)Add rating

      Drawing inspiration from the imaginative and surreal style of Lewis Carroll, this novel takes readers on a journey through a bizarre and thought-provoking world. It features complex characters and intricate plots that challenge perceptions of reality, blending whimsy with deeper philosophical themes. The narrative invites readers to explore the boundaries of logic and fantasy, promising an engaging and unpredictable experience that will leave them questioning the nature of existence itself.

      Alice - Signed Edition
    • 2024

      "A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifying secrets in the captivating new horror novel from the national bestselling author of Good Girls Don't Die and Horseman. 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 Chigago 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 discretion, and Harry has always tried to clean the house immaculately, keep her head down, and keep her job safe-she needs the money to support her son. But then she starts hearing noises from behind a locked door. Noises that sound remarkably like a human voice calling for help, even though Javier lives alone and never has visitors. Harry knows that not asking questions is a vital part of keeping her job, but she soon finds that the forbidding house may be home to secrets she can't ignore"--Provided by publisher.

      The House that Horror Built
    • 2023

      A smart, twisty thriller about a woman who finds herself trapped inside a story she knows isn't her own, from the author of Alice and The Girl in Red Celia is trapped in a life that's not hers. Literally. She's waking up in a house with a man who says he's her husband and a daughter who wants her to pack a school lunch. But Celia knows she's not married and she doesn't have children. Even though she can't shake the suspicion that this life is someone else's, there's something about it that's awfully familiar. In fact, this feels just like something she once read in a book. So begins a gripping read that plays on our best-loved tropes and follows three women who will fight with everything they have to survive-and who may find that getting lost in a good book could be the key to salvation.

      Good Girls Don't Die
    • 2022

      Set in the Old City, a crumbling environment filled with desperation, the story reimagines Alice's Adventures in Wonderland through the lens of dark themes. The protagonist, a woman in a hospital with tangled hair, clings to memories of a long-ago tea party. The deluxe boxset also includes four novellas in Looking Glass that further explore and expand upon this twisted universe, drawing inspiration from the imaginative and surreal elements of Lewis Carroll's works.

      The Chronicles of Alice Boxset
    • 2022

      Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga

      • 270 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      3.8(491)Add rating

      A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by the Baba Yaga. Featuring Gwendolyn Kiste, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Mercedes M. Yardley, Monique Snyman, Lindy Ryan, Donna Lynch, Lisa Quigley, and R. J. Joseph, with a foreword by Christina Henry. 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 yaga may find help, or hinderance, or horror. She is wild, she is woman, she is witch--and these are her tales. Edited by Toni Miller, this collection brings together some of today's leading voices of women-in-horror as they pay tribute to the baba yaga, and go Into the Forest.

      Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga
    • 2021

      Horseman

      • 347 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.7(6140)Add rating

      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 Crane out of town. Twenty years after those storied events, the village is a quiet place. Fourteen-year-old Ben loves to play Sleepy Hollow boys, reenacting the events Brom once lived through. But then Ben and a friend stumble across the headless body of a child in the woods near the village, and the sinister discovery makes Ben question everything the adults in Sleepy Hollow have ever said.

      Horseman
    • 2021

      Near the Bone

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.7(15016)Add rating

      A woman trapped on a mountain attempts to survive more than one kind of monster, in a dread-inducing horror novel from the national bestselling author Christina Henry.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 in the woods, Mattie knows their presence will anger William. Terrible things happen when William is angry.

      Near the Bone
    • 2020

      Cursed

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.5(2502)Add rating

      Twenty curses, old and new, from bestselling fantasy authors such as Neil Gaiman, Karen Joy Fowler, Christina Henry, M.R. Carey and Charlie Jane Anders. 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 and stories of warning, stories of monsters and stories of magic. TWENTY TIMELESS FOLKTALES, NEW AND OLD NEIL GAIMAN JANE YOLEN KAREN JOY FOWLER M.R. CAREY CHRISTINA HENRY CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN TIM LEBBON MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH CHARLIE JANE ANDERS JEN WILLIAMS CATRIONA WARD JAMES BROGDEN MAURA McHUGH ANGELA SLATTER LILLITH SAINTCROW CHRISTOPHER FOWLER ALISON LITTLEWOOD MARGO LANAGAN

      Cursed
    • 2020

      The Ghost Tree

      • 507 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      3.8(5741)Add rating

      A brand-new chilling horror novel from the bestselling author of Alice and Lost Boy. Lauren and Miranda have been best friends forever. Every day one would say, Meet me by the old ghost-tree and they would have adventures in the woods. But this last year things dont seem like they used to be. And then there is the town itself, where every year one girl dies mysteriously. A town cursed by something that lingers in the empty house on top of the hill, and in the woods all around, and in the very soil the homes are built on.

      The Ghost Tree
    • 2020

      Collection of four dark novellas set in the Alice series universe. Lovely Creature In the New City lives a girl with a secret: Elizabeth can do magic. But someone knows her secret--someone who has a secret of his own. That secret is a butterfly that lives in a jar, a butterfly that was supposed to be gone forever, a butterfly that used to be called the Jabberwock... Girl in Amber Alice and Hatcher are just looking for a place to rest. Alice has been dreaming of a cottage by a lake and a field of wildflowers, but while walking blind in a snowstorm she stumbles into a house that only seems empty and abandoned... When I First Came to Town Hatcher wasn't always Hatcher. Once, he was a boy called Nicholas, and Nicholas fancied himself the best fighter in the Old City. No matter who fought him he always won. Then his boss tells him he's going to battle the fearsome Grinder, a man who never leaves his opponents alive... The Mercy Seat There is a place hidden in the mountains, where all the people hate and fear magic and Magicians. It is the Village of the Pure, and though Alice and Hatcher would do anything to avoid it, it lies directly in their path...

      Looking Glass