Elizabeth Hand is one of those novelists I really like, I put her in that camp of weird history fantasy with Crowley and Powers and Blaylock, the stuff that I can really dig my teeth into. The fact she uses Maine so effectively (especially in her short stories) is just an added benefit in my book.

Bibliomancy is a collection of 4 novellas. My favorite was 'Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol' which involved half-remembered early televison and the redemption of the human soul. It made me cry. I also liked 'The Least Trumps', with its well realized pseudo-literary history and its changing history.

The other two short stories 'Cleopatra Brimstone' and 'Pavane for a Prince of the Air' round out the collection. ( )