Melissa Albert

Albert delivers a fierce, captivating contemporary fantasy about a 17-year-old girl who must venture into the world behind a pitch-dark, cult-classic collection of fairy tales to save her mother. Illustrations.

A Novel

The Hazel Wood

The New York Times bestselling sequel to Melissa Albert’s beloved The Hazel Wood! In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors of The Hazel Wood. Follow her and Ellery Finch as they learn The Hazel Wood was just the beginning, and that worlds die not with a whimper, but a bang. With Finch’s help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother’s dark legacy. Now she and the rest of the dregs of the fairy tale world have washed up in New York City, where Alice is trying to make a new, unmagical life. But something is stalking the Hinterland’s survivors—and she suspects their deaths may have a darker purpose. Meanwhile, in the winking out world of the Hinterland, Finch seeks his own adventure, and—if he can find it—a way back home... Don’t miss Tales from the Hinterland, coming January 12, 2021!

A Hazel Wood Novel

The Night Country

A gorgeously illustrated collection of the twelve original stories that frame Melissa Albert’s New York Times bestsellers The Hazel Wood and The Night Country. 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. Perfect for new readers and dedicated Hinterland fans alike, Tales from the Hinterland features full-page illustrations by Jim Tierney, foil stamping, two-color interior printing, and printed endpapers.

Tales from the Hinterland

The New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood returns with a darkly gripping, contemporary fantasy with dual timelines, family secrets, mystery, and magic

Secrets. Lies. Super-bad choices. Witchcraft.

The suburbs, right now . . .
Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a burning question: What if there's more to her mother than meets the eye?

The city, back then . . .
Dana has always been perceptive. And the summer she turns sixteen, with the help of her best friend and an ambitious older girl, her gifts bloom into a heady fling with the supernatural. As the trio’s aspirations darken, they find themselves speeding toward a violent breaking point.

Years after it began, Ivy and Dana's shared story will come down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should’ve messed with.

Our Crooked Hearts

The Boy Who Didn't Come Home

Lucinda Gray

An American farm girl discovers that she's an English heiress . . . but claiming her fortune leads to danger and intrigue.

The Gilded Cage

Meredith Russo

Rory Power

Tracy Deonn

Malinda Lo

Roselle Lim

Anna-Marie McLemore

Alex London

Stacey Lee

Hafsah Faizal

Darcie Little Badger

Rebecca Podos

Dahlia Adler

Gita Trelease

H.E. Edgmon

Once upon a time . . . Fairy tales have been spun for thousands of years and remain among our most treasured stories. Weaving fresh tales with unexpected reimaginings, At Midnight brings together a diverse group of acclaimed YA writers to breathe new life into a storied tradition. . . Fifteen celebrated authors reclaim classic fairy tales for a new generation: Dahlia Adler, “Rumplestiltskin” / Tracy Deonn, “The Nightingale” / H.E. Edgmon, “Snow White” / Hafsah Faizal, “Little Red Riding Hood” / Stacey Lee, “The Little Matchstick Girl” / Roselle Lim, “Hansel and Gretel” / Darcie Little Badger, “Puss in Boots” / Malinda Lo, “Frau Trude” / Alex London, “Cinderella” / Anna-Marie McLemore, “The Nutcracker” / Rebecca Podos, “The Robber Bridegroom” / Rory Power, “Sleeping Beauty” / Meredith Russo, “The Little Mermaid” / Gita Trelease, “Fitcher’s Bird” / and an all-new fairy tale by Melissa Albert.

15 Beloved Fairy Tales Reimagined

At Midnight

NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Melissa Albert returns in this supernatural thriller about a girl who uncovers dangerous, supernatural secrets surrounding the disappearances in her small townOne winter's night, four people go missing: three high school students and a teacher, with no other link apparent among them.One of the lost is Nora's enigmatic friend, Becca, who vanishes after the lifelong friends have a transformative fight. As Nora tries to untangle the truth of Becca's disappearance, she uncovers dark events in her high school's past. Soon, she becomes haunted by a piece of local lore: a goddess folk figure of forgotten origins that played an eerie role in Nora and Becca's own childhood games.With each discovery Nora makes about the vanished four and her suburb's secrets, she becomes increasingly aware her friend was hiding far more than she realized. She must dig deep to discover whether Becca is perpetrator or victim, and to unravel the mystery of the goddess, a desperate and dangerous creation born out of female rage. But there are other forces at work - and they're willing to protect or destroy the legacy of the goddess at any cost.

The Bad Ones

The Hazel Wood - Target Club Pick

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * #1 INDIE NEXT PICK * 6 STARRED REVIEWS * AMAZON’S #1 YA BOOK OF THE YEAR Secrets. Lies. Bad choices. Dangerous magic. . . . From NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Melissa Albert comes OUR CROOKED HEARTS, a contemporary fantasy "so precise and enthralling that the only explanation is that Albert herself is a witch" (Booklist, starred review) On the way home from a party, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her soon-to-be ex nearly run over a nude young woman standing in the middle of a tree-lined road. It’s only the first in a string of increasingly eerie events and offerings: a dead rabbit in the driveway, a bizarre concoction buried by her mother in the backyard, a box of childhood keepsakes hidden in her parents’ closet safe. Most unsettling of all, corroded recollections of Ivy and her enigmatic mother’s past resurface, with the help of the boy next door. What if there’s more to Ivy’s mother than meets the eye? And what if the supernatural forces she messed with during her own teen years have come back to haunt them both? Ivy must grapple with these questions and more if she’s going to escape the darkness closing in. Straddling Ivy’s contemporary suburban town and her mother’s magic-drenched 1990s Chicago, this bewitching and propulsive story rockets towards a conclusion guaranteed to keep readers up all night.

Un original cuento de hadas: emocionante, fascinante y conmovedor a partes iguales. ¿Se puede cambiar el final de un cuento? A los cuentos de hadas les da lo mismo que no creas en ellos... Alice, una chica de diecisiete años, y su madre se han pasado la mayor parte de sus vidas de un sitio para otro, siempre un paso por delante de la extraña mala suerte que les pisa los talones. Pero cuando la abuela de Alice, la esquiva autora de un libro de cuentos espeluznantes, muere en su finca del bosque, Alice descubre hasta dónde puede llegar su mala suerte. Su madre desaparece y deja un extraño mensaje: no te acerques al bosque de los avellanos. Para recuperarla, Alice tendrá que adentrarse en el mundo en que nacieron las historias de su abuela y donde quizás encuentre la razón del monstruoso y estremecedor origen de su historia.

La puerta del bosque (La puerta del bosque 1)

Hazelwoud

'I couldn't put it down' Karen M. McManus 'Every line reads like an incantation' V.E. Schwab SECRETS. LIES. SUPER-BAD CHOICES. WITCHCRAFT. This is Our Crooked Hearts - a gripping mystery crossed with a pitch-dark fantasy from Melissa Albert, global bestselling author of The Hazel Wood. In our family, we keep our magic close, but our secrets closer . . . Ivy's summer kicks off with a series of disturbing events. As unnatural offerings appear on her doorstep, she's haunted by fragmented memories from her childhood, suggesting there's more to her mother, Dana, than meets the eye. Dana's tale starts the year she turns sixteen, when she embarks on a major fling with the supernatural. Too late she realizes that the powers she's playing with are also playing with her. Years after it began, Ivy and Dana's shared story will come down to a reckoning between a mother, a daughter and the dark forces they never should have messed with. 'Electrifyingly brilliant' Katherine Webber 'Riveting' Angeline Boulley

Oltre il bosco

Crângul de alun

Alice è scappata dal mondo fiabesco di Hazel Wood, e ora lei e gli altri abitanti dell'Oltremondo sono sbarcati a New York, alla ricerca di una vita non magica. Ma condurre un'esistenza totalmente umana non è semplice per Alice. Come si dice, si può togliere Alice dall'Oltremondo, più difficilmente l'Oltremondo da Alice. Ci riuscirà? Non sarà facile: dovrà scoprire chi è a uccidere e mutilare i profughi del suo vecchio mondo, affrontare un potentissimo vecchio nemico, fare i conti con la propria doppia (anzi, tripla) identità, e ultimo ma non ultimo salvare - con il sempre provvidenziale aiuto di Ellery Finch - il nostro povero mondo reale.

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