The Winterlong Trilogy by Elizabeth Hand
Gothic, Grand Guignol-drenched post-apocalyptic science-fantasy. "Febrile" is a word that comes to mind – the language is overstuffed, it's dense with references to fantasy and folklore, and the characters are run through the wringer. Not the last of her novels to feature a transmogrified Washington DC as a primary venue.
Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
Roman á clef and supernatural romance (in the traditional, not Twilight sense) featuring the hidden war between the Benandanti, a sect of nasty old patriarchal quasi-Catholics, and the forces of Othiym Lunarsa, goddess of a long-suppressed matriarchal death cult. If Camille Paglia ever read this, she probably loved it, but the central story is basically an overheated, fantastic version of Whit Stillman's Metropolitan and so th