Christina Henry
1) Red Queen
Author
Series
Chronicles of Alice volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
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...
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...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a familiar story with a dark hook--a tale about Peter Pan and the friend who became his nemesis, a nemesis who may not be the blackhearted villain Peter says he is ..."--
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the first horror novel from national bestselling 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...
5) Alice
Author
Series
Chronicles of Alice volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
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 cinderblock 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...
6) Black wings
Author
Series
Black wings novels volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
As an Agent of Death, Madeline Black is responsible for escorting the souls of the dearly departed to the afterlife. Maddy's position may come with magical powers and an impressive wingspan, but it doesn't pay the bills. And then there are her infuriating boss, tenant woes, and a cranky, popcorn-loving gargoyle to contend with. Things start looking up, though, when tall, dark, and handsome Gabriel Angeloscuro agrees to rent the empty apartment in...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Revisit the village of Sleepy Hollow and discover that the oldest legends can be the hungriest, in this atmospheric, terrifying new novel from the author of Alice and The Girl in Red. 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...
10) Black howl
Author
Series
Black wings novels volume 3
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 v. ; 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.
11) Black city
Author
Series
Black wings novels volume 5
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 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...
12) Black lament
Author
Series
Black wings novels volume 4
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 273 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Devastated and grieving, Maddy unexpectedly finds hope with the discovery that she is pregnant. But her joy is short-lived when Lucifer informs her that he wants the baby
13) Black spring
Author
Series
Black wings novels volume 7
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Chicago becomes ground zero in a struggle between ancient creatures, Madeline Black, a former Agent of Death, must save her unborn child and all of humanity from utter destruction.
14) Black night
Author
Series
Black wings novels volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 277 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Madeline "Maddy" Black is an agent of death, responsible for escorting the souls of those who have died to the afterlife. However, deaths begin occurring outside of the natural order, Maddy's being stalked by foes inside and outside of her family, and her two loves - her bodyguard Gabriel and her gargoyle Beezle - disappear. Her grandfather, Lucifer, wants Maddy to go to the faerie court and negotiate a new land and power treaty. the fallen's last...
15) Black heart
Author
Series
Black wings novels volume 6
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a former Agent of Death, Madeline Black is no stranger to witnessing violent ends. But being the one to cause them is an entirely different story. Despite her having saved Chicago from a vampire invasion, the Agency wants to get Maddy off their payroll, permanently. With the deadly Retrievers hot on her trail, she has no choice but to trust Nathaniel to port her to safety. But even the exotic and dangerous world that she winds up in is not as...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Alice volume 3
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
17) The mermaid
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
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
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
20240514
Language
English
Description
"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...
19) Cursed
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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...