Alethea Kontis

The popular THINLY VEILED collection from the Castle of Horror continues with this anthology of horror stories in the world of 80s pop culture-- from movies like ROBOCOP and THE KEEP to shows like THE FACTS OF LIFE and MORK AND MINDY-- but every one of these brands is "thinly veiled.

Annaleigh Elizabeta Morales hatte nicht damit gerechnet, an diesem Abend zu sterben. Schon gar nicht mit dem Tod persönlich. Wer denkt schon daran, ein Engel zu werden und alles zu vermasseln?

Annaleigh Elizabeta Morales não esperava morrer naquela noite. Ela não esperava encontrar a Morte. Ela não esperava se tornar um anjo. E certamente, não esperava estragar tudo. Os fãs de Arilland irão desfrutar desta história sombria e manchada de sangue por um anjo ligeiramente equivocado...

Annaleigh Elizabeta Morales no esperaba morir esa noche. Ni esperaba conocer a Muerte. Tampoco esperaba convertirse en un ángel. Y mucho menos, esperaba arruinarlo tan feo.

Es war einmal, vor langer Zeit, als eine bezaubernde Prinzessin das Licht der Welt erblickte. Ihr Haar war schwarz wie tiefstes Ebenholz, ihre Lippen leuchtend rot wie frisches Blut und ihre Haut so zart und weiß wie frisch gefallener Schnee.

Space explorers Kat Savage and Blu Valentine land their ship on a planet in response to a distorted message from a damaged emergency beacon....

When Friday stumbles upon seven sleeping brothers in her sister Sunday's palace, she takes one look at Tristan and knows he's her future. But the brothers are cursed to be swans by day....

Rough-and-tumble Saturday Woodcutter thinks she's the only one of her sisters without any magic - until the day she accidentally conjures an ocean in the backyard.

Annaleigh Elizabeta Morales did not expect to die tonight. She did not expect to meet Death. She did not expect to become an angel. She certainly did not expect to screw it up so badly. Fans of Arilland will enjoy this dark, bloodstained tale of a slightly misguided angel with her heart in the right place....

Imagine a universe where, on November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes's Gunpowder Plot was successful....

A toy giant and a clockwork unicorn star in this retelling of Aesop's fable "The Lion and the Mouse" in a steampunk fantasy setting....

Jack Brown is an unhappy painter whose glass is always half-empty....

Messenger is the deleted last chapter from Dearest....

Fey magic and animal magic: that troublemaking imp Trix Woodcutter has both, if not the ability to use them to their full potential....

Here are 20 stories and poems that will transport you to the magical dangerous worlds you've always known should exist, but have never quite been able to find....

Trix Woodcutter is the long prophesied boy who talks to animals. He's also a foundling prankster scamp who places his family under a sleeping spell so that he can run away from home....

Heather Hayden has everything a young witch could desire: beauty, money, popularity, and exceptionally strong magical powers. Too bad she’s also got a dysfunctional family that couldn’t care less about her and a Head Witch who’s watching her every move....

It isn’t easy being Sunday’s child, not when you’re the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week....

Peter, Quinn, Romeo, and Sam are four (lame) shapeshifters (platypus, mosquito, piranha, sloth) who also happen to be best friends and members of a (terrible) garage band. But the local Battle of the Bands is happening on the full moon....

Max receives a piece of his mother's funerary jewelry and realizes that he now has the power to touch certain objects and relive their owner's last moments....