Absolutely thrilled to
announce the finalization, preorder, and list of contributors for the latest
anthology that I developed!!
Horror Writers Association’s Scaring and Daring is an assemblage of original
Middle Grade-appropriate short stories adding a “scaring and daring” element to
a classic of literature.
Coming August 2025 from HarperCollins, Scaring and Daring will include the following stories:
• “Hook and the Hand of Fate” by Teel James Glenn and Maxwell I. Gold (from Peter Pan)
• “What We Found Beneath Mount Etna” by Lisa Morton (from Journey to the Center of the Earth)
• “Prince Badi az-Zaman and the Ogress Fattan” by Tanvir Ahmed (from One Thousand and One Nights)
• “The Hound of the Basking Villas” by Kelley Armstrong (from The Hound of the Baskervilles)
• “The Lost Musketeer” by Maurice Broaddus (from The Three Musketeers)
• “The Secret (Thing in the) Garden” by Delilah S. Dawson (from The Secret Garden)
• “The Shadows in the Rock” by Joe R. Lansdale (from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
• “A Lucky Find” by Kristi Petersen Schoonover (from Moby-Dick)
• “The Boy of La Mancha Rides a Ghost Horse” by Carlos Hernandez (from Don Quixote (or, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha))
• “The Glass Slipper” by Sherrilyn Kenyon (from Cinderella)
• “Wolf in the Mirror” by Sarwat Chadda (from The Jungle Book)
• “Vessel Eaters” by Ai Jiang (from “The Ballad of Mulan”)
• “Freckle and Hide” by Jonathan Maberry (from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)
• “Out on a Limb” by Nancy Holder (from Pollyanna)
• “The Gruelmaster” by Nathan Carson (from Oliver Twist)
Edited by Eric J. Guignard. Preorders available now at HarperCollins or Amazon. This book is scheduled for release August, 2025.
And look at this breath-taking artwork!!!
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