Bibliograph

Tales from the Hinterland, Althea Proserpine ; collected by Melissa Albert ; illustrated by Jim Tierney

Type

Label

Tales from the Hinterland, Althea Proserpine ; collected by Melissa Albert ; illustrated by Jim Tierney

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Tales from the Hinterland

Responsibility statement

Althea Proserpine ; collected by Melissa Albert ; illustrated by Jim Tierney

Summary

Before The Hazel Wood, there was Althea Proserpine?s Tales from the Hinterland...Journey into the Hinterland, a brutal and beautiful world where a young woman spends a night with Death, brides are wed to a mysterious house in the trees, and an enchantress is killed twice?and still lives

Table Of Contents

The door that wasn't there -- Hansa the traveler -- The clockwork bride -- Jenny and the night women -- The skinned maiden -- Alice-three-times -- The house under the stairwell -- Ilsa waits -- The sea cellar -- Mother and the dagger -- Twice-killed Katherine -- Death and the woodwife

Target audience

adolescent

Classification