THE CREATURES OF DREAMS COME ALIVEin the world of Zenna Henderson ...These are some of them: THE GRUNDER, a thing of horror which, if defeated, restores love ...THE NOISE-EATER, created by a child out of his fevered imagination, gobbles up anything—or anyone—that makes a sound ... THE COVETI, residents of an alien world poisoned by the intrusion of the stranger from Earth ...THE BEAST HILL, an ordinary mound of earth, except that its grass resembles fur, and—doesn't it move?

Zenna Henderson's well-known stories about The People have appeared frequently in magazines and anthologies, and at least one of them, Ararat, is considered a science fiction classic.In PILGRIMAGE, the author has woven these tales into a full-length novel, a spellbinding epic of exiles from another planet whose supernatural powers arouse horror and terror in ordinary humans … and who must roam forever in a hostile world, far from their remembered home.

Zenna Henderson is best known for her stories of The People, published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. The People, a group of human-appearing aliens, escaped the destruction of their home world only to be shipwrecked on Earth, where they struggled to hide their extra abilities. These stories were collected into one volume in 1995 when NESFA Press published Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson. During the same period, Henderson published an equal number of non-People stories. Like the stories of The People, they range from comforting to unnerving. Fans of The People will recognize the same underlying belief in the goodness of people and other beings as they struggle for a chance at a better future. These stories have a common theme — belief. A girl believes that the hills are lost beasts and leads them home; a boy believes he can fight evil with a pocket piece made from Popsicle sticks; a boy...

The PeopleZenna Henderson is best remembered for her stories of the People which appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from the early 1950s to the middle 1970s. The People escaped the destruction of their home planet and crashed on Earth in the Southwest just before the turn of the century. Fully human in appearance, they possessed many extraordinary powers. Henderson's People stories tell of their struggles to fit in and to live their lives as ordinary people, unmolested by fearful and ignorant neighbors. The People are "us at our best, as we hope to be, and where (with work and with luck) we may be in some future."Ingathering contains all seventeen of the People stories, including one, "Michal Without," which has never before been published.

In this many-dimensioned new collection of speculative fiction, Zenna Henderson introduces us to a boy who "calls" his mother, despite the fact that the nearest phone is miles away—and reads the distress call from an orbiting astronaut's mind; to the amazing cures of Aunt Sophronia—pills for the living dead; and to Loo Ree, a first grader whose imaginary friend turns out to be all too real ...THEBELIEVINGKIND Here are children who "believe"—but what they believe and how they can realize their beliefs is only half the story ... Dismey, for example, believes she's a magician. Two little boys who teased her can prove it. But they can't tell —she's turned them into rocks! And how do you explain an amazing child who believes in attending school—but is hundreds of years old? The explanation is simple ... if you believe!

THE PEOPLE … Scattered at random across the Earth when they first arrived, The People yearn always for The Home—the planet from which they came—and for each other. This second book of The People centers on an Assembly, where members tell stories of their adventures with The Others—those of us born here on Earth, who haven't the Gifts—and of their perils in getting to the happy Assembly itself. THE PEOPLE: NO DIFFERENT FLESH confirms Zenna Henderson's special place among science fiction creators.