Nina Kiriki Hoffman


Fall of Light
, 2009

A Fistful of Sky
, 2003

Stir of Bones
, 2003

Past the Size of Dreaming

A Red Heart of Memories

nominee for World Fantasy Award:  Best Novel, 2000

Unmasking
, 1992
Finalist for World Fantasy Award: BEST NOVELLA, 1993

Spirits That Walk in Shadow
, 2006
see this pic LARGE
The Silent Strength of Stones, 1995
nominee for 1996 Locus Poll Best Fantasy Novel
finalist for 1996 best novel Nebula
finalist for 1996 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel

The Thread that Binds the Bones
, 1995
preliminary nominee for 1993 Nebula
nominated for best Fantasy Novel by Locus Poll, 1994
Bram Stoker Award: First Novel: 1992

Common Threads
(omnibus), 1995
[see collections]

Catalyst
, 2006

How I Got Here
, 2002/3

Time Travelers, Ghosts & Other Visitors
, 2003

Courting Disasters and Other Strange Affinities
, 1991

Authors Choice Monthly #14: Legacy of Fire
, 1990
  • R.L. Stine's Ghosts of Fear Street #14: Body Switchers From Outer Space, 1996
  • R.L. Stine's Ghosts of Fear Street #23: Why I'm Not Afraid of Ghosts, 1997
  • R.L. Stine's Ghosts of Fear Street #30: I Was a Sixth Grade Zombie, 1998

  • Sweet Valley Junior High Third Wheel

    as Jamie Suzanne

    Child of an Ancient City
    , 1992
    With Tad Williams

    Star Trek Voyager #15 Echoes
    , 1997
    with DW Smith & KK Rusch

    Collections


    Author's Choice Monthly #14
    Legacy of Fire, 1990
    "A Legacy of Fire" Amazing Stories, Jan 1989
    "Drawing on the Kitchen Table" Snapdragon V7#1 Fall 1983
    "Savage Breasts" Pulphouse #2, Winter 1988 Got this in The Best of Pulphouse and read it. Almost died laughing and have had several of the women I work with read the story and they now really believe I'm weird!
    The Best of Pulphouse, 1988
    Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves, 1991
    Witpunk, 2003
    "Tremors" Fantasy & Terror #2, 1984
    "Universal Donor"
  • Pulphouse #4, Summer 1989
  • VBTech Journal 1996
  • "The Black Knitting Needle" Courting Disasters, 1991 A Pre-civil war white girl learns love and hate from the slave vodoun woman who killed her immediate family.
    "Measuring Up to Shadows" The Argonaut #12, 1985
    "Coming Home" 4th Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 1991
    100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories, 1991
    "Works of Art"
  • Pulphouse #1, Fall 1988
  • Year's Best Horror Stories vol 17, 1989
  • Embracing the Dark, 1991
  • Night Terrors #1, 1996



  • Courting Disasters
    And Other Strange Affinities, 1991
    "Voices in a Sheleter Home" Amazing Stories, March 1991 A woman moves into a house formerly used as a shelter for abused women with a painter who's hired her as a model. I a 'past life' (before 'growing safe') she'd lived as a battered escaped wife. Her husband found her and did something horrible enough that the shelter was closed, the house sold and is now haunted.

    While painting her, the painter is driven near mad by the screams and sobbing only he can hear.
    14 pages long.

    "Waiting for the Hunger" Doom City, 1986 A vampress kidnaps a diet-fad specialist... she's distressed by an 'eating disorder' --she's so glutted she looks pregnant.
    9 pages.
    "The Glass Mountain" Kalliope v7#1&2, 1985 A neo-pagan take on the Norweigan folktale of the Glass Mountain.
    14 pages.
    "Lost Lives"
    [Chapel Hollow]
    The Clarion Awards, 1984 A teenage orphan finds out what happens when you let your personality be totally subverted by familial bullies. With the help of one of these 'persons'-- Hannah -- and his aunt he avoids that dissipation of self.
    12 pages.
    Common Threads, 1995
    "The Open Air My Grave" Wet Visions: The Rainthology, 1988 A selkie sets her son free!
    6 pages.
    "Variations on a Scream" Grue #9, 1988 A little girl finds out that life is beautiful after seeing what dead is like. A moon goddess rescues an innocent sacrifice to the dark.
    12 pages.
    "A Night Out" Tales By Moonlight 1983 A Werewolf goes to the school of human thought.
    7 pages.
    "The Black Knitting Needle" Legacy of Fire, 1990 A Pre-civil war white girl learns love and hate from the slave vodoun woman who killed her immediate family.
    6 pages.
    "Echoes & Mirrors" In a society where sound-expressions are packaged, a woman learns that screams are marketable from the man who violates women's beauty worship.
    8 pages.
    "A Step Into Darkness"
  • Writers of the Future vol 1, 1985
  • The Best of the Writers of the Future, 2000
  • A young girl is rescued from her mother's perverted boyfriend by an extraterrestrial witch.
    19 pages
    "Housewife"
    *NC17*
    Pulphouse #9, Fall 1990 A NC-17 rated story about a woman who accepts a house as a substitute for a husband.
    13 pages.
    "Compandroid" SF Review v1#3 Fall 1990 The tale of an android's four-step program: from sex-android, to nanny- droid, to husband-droid to human-droid.
    16 pages.
    "Little Once" Weird Tales #292 Fall 1988 A sexually-sick woman gives birth to a 'monster'.
    4 pages.
    Best of Weird Tales, 1995
    "Hushabye" Pulphouse #Five, Fall 1989 A woman's anguish at her sterility.
    2 pages.
    Pulphouse #0 March 1, 1991
    "Family Tree" Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: 8, 1990 A 'grower' family is helped in their quest to avoid extinction by their ancestor.
    16 pages.
    "Out of Hand" Dragon Magazine, #132 April 1988 A painter's apprentice learns of the challenges associated with having her creations come to life.
    14 pages.
    "Rumors of Greatness" Weird Tales #300 Spring 1991 A woman learns the price of her baby's greatness-there is no greatness without ghosts.
    5 pages.
    "Exact Change"
    [Chapel Hollow]
    Weird Tales #299 Winter, 1990 Some of the Chapel Hollow kids learn of the threats facing normals -- and how good it feels to help.
    10 pages.
    Common Threads, 1995
    "Courting Disasters" Weird Tales #294 June 1989 A suicidal man drives his Ferarri into a redwood. Somehow this melding of flesh, metal and wood allows the three beings (man, car and tree) to become one in order to experience what the others feel.
    25 pages.
    Best of Weird Tales, 1995
    Common Threads, 1995
    A collection of mostly original stories about the characters in The Thread that Binds the Bones, plus the text of the novel.
    A Hand-ful of Twist-Ties I
    "Fairy Tale" Gifts of the Spirit, 1990
    "Prayers"
    "Lost Lives" Courting Disasters
    The Clarion Awards, 1984
    "Light Search"
    "Exact Change" Weird Tales Winter 1990
    Courting Disasters
    "Birth Day" Gifts of the Spirit, 1990
    "Wishmas" ["Tinsel"] The Ordeal of Christmas, 1990
    "Tripptych"
    "Snow Angel" World Horror Convention 1996 Program Book, 1996
    The Thread that Binds the Bones
    novel
    A Hand-ful of Twist-Ties II
    "Christmas Eve" Gifts of the Spirit, 1990
    "Ghost Gift"
    "What Ghost is This, Who, Laid to Rest..." Christmas Spirits, 1991
    "The Sixty-Foot Man"
    "Invitation"

    Time Travelers, Ghosts, and Other Visitors
    "The Skeleton Key"
    *Finalst for Nebula award Best Novellette, 1994
    Fantasy & Science Fiction, Aug 1993
    "[The Skeleton Key] deals with a horrific event in a non-gruesome manner. Its fantastic elements belong to the Greek rather than the European tradition. Despint the mixing of Devil worship, death, and the Greek God Hermes, the story's warmth is reminiscent of the best in young adult fiction. Unclassifiable and touching, "The Skeleton Key is Nina Kiriki Hoffman at her best."
    "Objects of Desire" Alien Pets, 1998
    "Unleashed" The Ultimate Werewolf, 1991
    "Mint Condition" Past Imperfect, 2001
    "Night Life" Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug 2000
    "Entertaining Possibilities"
    "Toobychubbies"
  • Alien Abductions, 1998
  • Strange Horizons (online) Nov 2003
  • "When you have two kids who are less than four years old, you view the Toobychubbies as a godsend. No matter how good your intentions are to be the best mother in the universe, you have a finite amount of energy, and the kids are perpetual motion machines."
    "Haunted Humans"
    *Finalist for Nebula, Best Novella, 1994
    Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul 1994
    ElectricStory.net
    "Egg Shells" Bruce Coville's Strange Worlds

    Non-Collected Short Stories

    2009 "The Curse Tablet" Ages of Wonder, March 3, 2009
    "Pranks" OnLine LoneStarStories #33, Jun2009
    "Rags & Riches" Troll's Eye View, April 16, 2009
    "A Wolf In Holy Places" Sword Play, June 2009
    2008 "Dream Seed" OnLine LoneStarStories #30, Dec08
    "The Ghosts of Strangers" Firebirds Soaring, 2008
    "The Jewel of Abandon" Magic in the Mirrorstone, 2008
    "My Tears Have Been My Meat" Better Off Undead, 2008
    "Seeing Other People" OnLine LoneStarStories #28, Aug08
    "Trophy Wives" Fellowship Fantastic, 2008
    "The Trouble With the Truth" The Dimension Next Door, 2008
    2007 "Art Therapy" If I Were An Evil Overlord, 2007
    "Hostile Takeover" Wizards, Inc, 2007
    "The Listeners" Coyote Road, 2007
    "Neighbors" OnLine LoneStarStories #19, Feb07
    "A Soul Cake" OnLine LoneStarStories #24, Dec07
    "Things With the Same Name" OnLine LoneStarStories #21, Jun07
    2006 "I Can't Touch Them" Flytrap 5, May 2006
    "Marrow Wood" Slipstreams, 2006
    "Sea Air" Elementals: The Tsunami Relief Anthology, 2006
    "Seasonal Work" OnLine LoneStarStories #18, Dec06
    The Lone Star Stories Reader, 2008
    "To Grandmother's House" Weird Tales #338, Jan-Feb 2006
    "Unwrapping" Firebirds Rising, 2006
    "Wanderers" Polyphony 6, 2006
    "When You Can't Go Back" Talebones #33, Summer 2006
    "The Weight of Wishes" Children of Magic, 2006
    2005 "Feasts" Cicada July/August 2005
    Just what, exactly, is the secret to hunting these huge birds with a flimsy, undersized spear -- the once-in-a-lifetime ritual that makes a boy a man? A Hunt from which you either retuen with your quarry or don't come back?
    "Harvesting" I, Alien
    "Seven Keys to Writing Success"
    Essay
    Writers of the Future vol 21
    "Strikes of the Heart" Maiden, Matron, Crone, 2005
    "Treats" Talebones #30, Sum 2005
  • Best of the Rest 4
  • Lisa's crush on Peter takes a weird turn when she has some chocolate.
    "The Wisdom of Disaster" Amazing, January 2005
    2004 "Hearts' Desires" Realms of Fantasy v10#3, Feb 2004
    "When offered our heart's desire, how many of us would be brave enough to reach out and take it? Don't answer to quickly..."
    "Immersed in Matter" The Faery Reel
    "The Laily Worm" Realms of Fantasy August 2004
    "Although a dragon's heart runs hot, vengeance is a dish best served cold."
    "Mallificent" Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City
    "The Power of Waking" The Many Faces of Van Helsing
    "Relations" Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy
    "Switched" Rotten Relations
    2003 "Chambers of the Heart" Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold
    The Dark of the Woods, 2006
    "Cookies for Mr. Carson" 13 Horrors
    "The Devil You Know" The Repentant
    "A Fault Against the Dead" Realms of Fantasy Jun 2003
    "There are some pretty awful people out there in the world, and some pretty nice ones too. It stands to reason that this equation remains the same in the next world as well."
    "Flotsam" Firebirds
    The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: 17th Annual Collection
    "Spring Invades" [POEM] Strange Horizons (online) Nov 24 2003
    "Time Bombs" Talebones Win 2003
    "Wild Talents" Polyphony III
    2002 "Escapes" Shelf Life, 2002
    "Faint Heart, Foul Lady" KnightFantastic, 2002
    "Gifts" Weird Tales Win 2002
    "Gone" Lighthouse Hauntings, 2002
    "Grounded" Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
    "Knotwork" VengeanceFantastic, 2002
    "Scenes From a Marriage" Infinite Matrix (online) Sep 23 2002
    "Summer Camp Blues" Talebones #24 Spring 2002
    "Whatever Was Forgotten" PharaohFantastic, 2002
    2001 "Between Disappearances' Redshift, 2001
    "The Mouse's Soul"
    (poem)
    Out of Avalon, 2001
    "Secret Identities" Single White Vampire Seeks Same, 2001
    "Sensitives" The Mutant Files, 2001
    "Star Song" A Constellation of Cats, 2001
    2000 "Chain of Command"
    with Leslie What
    The Chick is in the Mail, 2000
    "Mud" Amazing Stories #599, Winter 2000
    "Night Stuff" Perchance to Dream, 2000
    "Shaped Stones" Graven Images, 2000
    "A Spatter of Later Stars" SpellFantastic, 2000
    "Suspended Animation" WarriorFantastic, 2000
    "The Whole of the Wideness of Night" Strange Attraction, 2000
    1999 "The Giant's Love" Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Tales from the EternaL Archives #2, 1999
    "How I Came to Marry a Herpetologist" Twice Upon a Time, 1999
    "One Day at Central Convenience Mall" Not of Woman Born, 1999
    "Radiance" Whitley Strieber’s Aliens, 1999
    The Campfire Collection: Thrilling Chilling Tales of Alien Encounters, 2005
    "Salvage Efforts" Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug ’99
    "Voyage of Discovery" Past Lives, Present Tense, 1999

    1998 "Bright Streets of Air" Battle Magic, 1998
    "Careteking" [Chapel Hollow] Black Cats & Broken Mirrors, 1998
    "Drown Night With Hope of Day" Olympus, 1998
    "Fast Wedded to the Ground" Imagination Fully Dilated, 1998
    "Gone to Heaven Shouting" Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan 98
    ElectricStory.net
    "The Hunger" Warrior Princesses, 1998
    "The Somehow Not Yet Dead" Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny
    "Survivals" The UFO Files, 1998
    "Sweet Nothings" Fantasy & Science Fiction, Aug 1998
    "Nina Hoffman's stories often have a musical component to them, as we saw most recently in "Gone to Heaven Shouting" in January. This poignant new one doesn't feature any outright music, but if you listen up, you'll hear a symphony within a whisper."

    1997 "Articles of Faith" TarotFantastic, 1997
    "The Breadcrumb Trail" (poem) Black Swan, White Raven, 1997
    "Heavenly Host" First Contact, 1997
    "Manna" Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apr 1997
    “"Manna" the third of our cover stories, marks the return of Hoffman to her horror roots -- and a welcome return it is.”
    "The Packet" Bruce Coville's Book of Spine Tinglers II, 1997
    "Transitions"
    LaZelle
    Appears almost word-for-word in Fall of Light
    Bruce Coville's Book of Magic II, 1997
    "Visible Breath" WizardFantastic, 1997
    "The World Within" Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept 1997

    1996 "Airborn"
    Matt Black
    Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1996
    ElectricStory.net
    Tasha was afraid that returning home would mean an end to her independence. The stakes turned out to be much higher.
    "Cookies With a Killer" Talebones #4, Summer 1996
    "The Demon Servant" Tomorrow, June 1996
    "The First Excuse" Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters II: More Tales to Give You the Creeps, 1996
    "The Fourth Wish" Bruce Coville's Book of Magic: Tales to Cast a Spell On You
    "The Handwriting on the Floor" Buried Treasures, 1996
    "Here We Come A'Wandering" [Matt] Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan 1996
    The first "draft" of the opening of the novel Red Heart of Memories
    "I Was A Teenage Boycrazy Blob" It Came From the Drive-In, 1996
    "Incidental Cats" Twists of the Tale, 1996
    "Inner Child"
    Mary
    OtherWere: Stories of Transformation, 1996
    "Key Signatures" Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apr 1996
    "Vegetation & Denial" Buried Treasures, 1996
    "A Wanderer of Wizard-Kind" In Celebration of Lammas Night, 1996
    "Water Everywhere" The Shimmering Door, 1996
    "Wonder Never Land" A Nightmare's Dozen, 1996

    1995 "Animal Crackers" The Urbanite #4,
    "Between Me and the Hope of My Heart" VB Tech Journal, May 1995
    "The Biting-a-Hologram Blues" 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories, 1995
    "But Now Am Found" Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 1995
    "Butterfly Wings" Wheel of Fortune
    "Dumpster Diving" Werewolves
    "Family History" 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories
    "Fast Seeds" The Ultimate Alien
    "Food Chain" Sisters of the Night
    Children of the Night, 1999
    Women of the Night, 2007
    "For Richer, For Stranger" Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jun 1995
    New grounds for divorce: death of personality.
    "Home for Christmas"
    *Finalist for Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, 1996
    Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan 1995
    Matt finds a wallet that leads her to a home for Christmas.
    The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: 9th, 1996
    "On Reflection" The Urbanite #5
    "Part-Singing" Heaven Sent
    "Picking Up Hitchhikers" Sirius*Visions, Feb 1 1995
    "Snow on Snow" Talebones #1, Fall 1995
    "To Summon a Fiend-Spirit" Sirius*Visions, May 1 1995
    "Trees Perpetual of Sleep" Enchanted Forests
    "The Trouble With Big Brothers" WitchFantastic
    "Waging Peace" The Secret Prophecies of Nostradamus
    "War Zone" Thunder's Shadow Collector's Magazine, Aug 1995
    "Weatherbones" Tomorrow #17, Oct 1995
    1994 "The Buddy System" Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp Your Mind
    Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens & Ghosts, 1996
    "A Dark Wind in the Whisper Tree" Sirius*Visions December 21 '94
    "Face Value" Weird Tales From Shakespeare, 1994


    1993 "Ceciley in the Supermarket" Weird Tales Spring 1993
    Weird Tales 305-6, 2003
    What would Blackbeard or Chernevog's wife bring home from the grocers?
    "Deal with the Devil" Betcha Can't Read Just One, 1993
    "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentle Ghosts" Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan 1993
    "Icecream & Tombstones" Figment #14, Summer 1993
    The Year's Best Horror Stories: 22, 1994
    "The Pulse of the Machine" Weird Tales Spring 1993
    Weird Tales: Seven Decades of Terror, 1997
    Weird Tales 305-6, 2003
    A shapeshifter (from "A Night Out"?) gets drunk with a friend, and encounters another hunter -- but what is it?
    "A Séance" Weird Tales Spring 1993
    Weird Tales 305-6, 2003
    When a "puffy-headed featherbrain" of a high school reporter sets out to expose a medium as a fraud, she gains a new relative.
    "The Silver Stalking" Sirius*Visions, Dec 21 1993
    "Sourheart" The Ultimate Witch, 1993
    "Surreal Estate" Pulphouse #12, Fall 1993
    "The Third Dead Body" The Ultimate Zombie, 1993
    New Masterpieces of Horror, 1996
    Horrorscape, 2005
    Which reprints, entirely, New Masterpieces of Horror
    The Living Dead, 2008
    "Valentines" Weird Tales Spring 1993
    Weird Tales 305-6, 2003
    This story makes me hum the tune to "Last Christmas I gave you my heart..."
    "Where the Sun Stays for the Winter" Weird Tales Spring 1993
    Weird Tales 305-6, 2003
    When you get a riddle for a gift, a wrong answer can earn you an extra present.
    1992 "Homeless" After Hours #14, Spr 1992
    "Joy to the Ghost" Figment #12, Winter 1992
    "Messages Left on a Two-Way Mirror" Amazing Stories, May 1992
    "The Third Sex" Figment #9, Spring 1992
    1991 "The Coming of the Newest Messiah" Aboriginal SF #29/30, Dec 1991
    "Floor in Landida"
    with Jerry Oltion
    Analog, Dec 1991
    "Heart of Gold" Obsessions, 1991
    "Heavy Still Sky" Pulphouse #11, Spring 1991
    "Homecomings" Amaranth 1991
    "Memory Preserves" Pulphouse Weekly #2, Jul 6 1991
    "A Painting Lesson" Amazing Stories, Jan 1991
    "Visitors" Weird Tales #303, Winter 1991/92
    "Zits" Iniquities #3, Fall 1991
    Best New Horror III, 1992
    1990 "Broken Things" Deathrealm #13, Fall/Winter 1990
    100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment
    "Imprint" Pulphouse #7, Spring 1990
    Splatterpunks II: Over The Edge, 1995
    "Life Sentences" Pulphouse #6, Winter 1990
    The Year's Best Horror Stories: 19, 1991
    "Moving Sale" Grue #12, 1990
    "Pouring the Foundations of a Nightmare" Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Apr 1990
    Fun & Games at the Whacks Museum, 1994
    "Reflected Light" Amazing Stories, July 1990
    "Stillborn" Borderlands, 1990
    "A Touch of the Old Lilith" Women of Darkness II, 1990
    The Years' Best Fantasy & Horror: 4, 1991
    Desire Burn, 1995
    1989 "Chrysalis" Pulphouse #3, Spring 1989
    "Dreamwalking Solo" Amazing Stories Sept, 1989
    "Piggin' Waivers" Amazing Stories, Jul 1989
    "Zombies for Jesus" Strained Relations, 1989
    The Year's Best Horror Stories: 18, 1990
    World Horror Convention 1996 Program Book
    1988 "Laundry" Deathrealm #5, Spring 1988
    "LaZelle Family Christmas"
    1. Beryl's Tree
    2. Flint's Lights
    3. Gypsum's Cookies
    4. Jasper's Carol
    5. Opal's Ornaments
    Stocking Stuffers, 1988
    Tomorrow v1#6, Dec 1993
    Christmas Magic, 1994
    1987 "Ants" Shadows #9, 1987
    "Delicacies" Rat Tales, 1987
    The writer's exercise in response to the opening line "There were rats in the souffle again."
    "An Invasion of Angels"
    1. Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella
    2. What Child is This?
    3. Do You Hear What I Hear?
    4. The Bells of Paradise I Hear Them Ring
    5. Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming
    6. Silent Night
    Pulphouse #10, Winter 1991
    The Year's Best Horror Stories: 20, 1992
    Silent Music, 1987
    [the following short-short stories resulted from a challenge issued by Alan Bard Newcomer in a Pulphouse Gang workshop. He challenged everyone to write a short-short story with a Christmas song title as the story title...]
    1986 "Social Worker" Bill Munster's Footsteps #7 November 1986
    1985 "Hiding From the Sun" Greystone Bay, 1985
    "The Shadow of a Hawk" Shadows #8, 1985
    1984 "What Used to Be Audrey" Arcane #1, Summer 1984
    Tales by Moonlight II, 1989
    1983 "Petrified" Asimov's, July 1983
    1977 "Cross My Heart" Concept #18 1977
    1975 "The Magic Piano" Concept #16 1975

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