Books with author DeAnna Knippling

“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice; “I’ve become one of the undead!”A horrible plague has spread across Britain, infecting some of its citizens with zombieism. The British, however, have not given themselves over to upset, but have discovered a method for controlling the plague: a serum that halts the infection in the living, and restores self-control (most of the time) to the undead.On one golden afternoon, gentleman zombie Charles Dodgson tells Alice Liddell and her two sisters a story, the tale of how dear little Alice (who is rather a troublemaker) comes to the mythical homeland of the zombies, Underland, and her adventures there.Will she escape? Or will Mr. Dodgson, as the story progresses, consume them all?The Queen of Stilled Hearts begins the story of Alice’s Adventures in Underland. It is continued in the second book, The Knight of Shattered Dreams, in which a tale is told of a certain looking-glass…For older teens and up. Some gore and violence--not recommended for younger readers.

“What everyone want to see,” the crow said, “is someone getting eaten. Preferably someone who deserves it.”A flock of crows saves a young girl from her mother, who made a deal with dark spirits—her daughter's life in exchange for sorcerous power. But it’s the middle of winter and the middle of a blizzard, and the dark spirits aren’t exactly going to leave them alone out in the abandoned junk yard where the crows have been hiding her.Can old Machado the crow keep the girl alive? More importantly, can he make sure that she never becomes the monster that her mother is?Seventeen tales that tell the truth about what a monster is, what a true monster does, and how to free souls from the monsters all around it…

At sunrise and sunset, the sky burns like it’s on fire and the old broken bridge over the railroad tracks on the far side of town stretches across the universes. At the end of the bridge are the fairies…Della Rae is only in this podunk Midwestern university town for the full-ride biology scholarship she’s getting. In a year or two, she’s going to Oxford as an exchange student, she knows it. Her eventual goal: to cure cancer. Only life doesn’t go like that. The way you planned.Something’s going on in the basement of the science building, something that’s tied up every single professor and sends the summer work-study students running. Rumors are going around that the professors are performing a vivisection. And nobody wants to see that.But it’s probably not going to be performed on the lab rats. Because this town has always had something weird going on. Something that involves Della Rae’s best friend, Merc, and a few other kids in town, all with the same face…

After the looking-glass...Comes the clockwork!Wonderland, built on the back of a giant clock, is winding down, and only Alice can rewind it.But between her and the winding-key is a war between Wonderlanders, none of whom wish to be slaves to the clockwork any longer.Who will win? Will Alice find her way to the key?Or will an older version of Alice, the dull and boring grown-up one, find a way to stop her?For fans of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, a terrifying and wonder-filled new adventure!Get it now!

Seventeen Tales of Monsters and the Macabre A collection of short horror, ghost, and dark fantasy stories for adults, woven together by a flock of crows, telling stories to entertain a girl trying to survive a tragedy... A storytelling crow named Machado strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young girl who tells herself stories. Without mate or chicks, he finds in her the daughter he never had. Then one day, evil erupts at the girl’s house. The flock of crows abduct the girl, carrying her to a secret hiding place while all hell breaks loose at home. To comfort her, they tell her stories of ghosts, horror, and hauntings—none of which are as heavy as the story she contains within herself...

SPOOKY SHORT FICTION - PERFECT FOR A HALLOWEEN NIGHT!Thirty-one short horror tales of ghosts, haunted houses, vampires black cats, mad science, weird plants, demons, zombies, and Halloween. From the surreal to the gory, surprise twists, black humor, bad puns, dark dreamlands, old myths, thrillers, chillers, and illers. Twilight Zone stories, dark fantasy stories, Black Mirror stories, and far-future dystopias. Short & sweet…monsters & meat.(For teens and up.)

Before Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, he was humble Charles Dodgson, mathematician at Christ Church college...and a zombie. Kept sane by a serum, chained to an iron ball, considered one of the finest amateur photographers in Britain, and friend to the three charmingly edible daughters of his superior and owner, Dean Liddell, Mr. Dodgson has quite the story to tell.And at least one of the girls, Alice, is entirely willing to listen.Even if it means that her strange zombie friend should have to be killed.

Tick. Tock. Time is running out for Wonderland.When Alice Liddell got married and became Alice Hargreaves, she received one last gift from the man who immortalized her in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass—a watercolor painting. To anyone else, it’s just a normal painting of Oxford.But to Alice, it’s a portal to another world. One that she doesn’t dare go through anymore—as a wife, a mother, and a well-brought-up upper-class English lady. On the other side of the portal, another, younger Alice is being dragged into the beginning of a war. A war between the Wonderlanders that we know—and the ones on the opposite side, clockwork creations that used to maintain the clocks that drove Wonderland but have now forced their counterparts to slave from dusk until dawn. A cruel treaty constrains everyone from the humblest rabbit to the highest queen.And now the fragile peace between the Wonderlanders is coming to an end: the great clock that runs Wonderland is almost unwound, despite the best efforts of both sides…and just to make things worse, a group of traitors has been working toward the Great Unwinding, sabotaging all efforts of salvation.Only the grown-up Alice’s curiosity can save them now…

Three women. One serial killer who has access to the supernatural. He can scare them...but he can't stop them from taking revenge.A small Midwestern college town. A series of murders that ape the Jack the Ripper killings. Then Laney Miller is butchered just after dawn in front of a second-hand bookstore. The one witness didn't see anything...except Laney getting dragged out of her car and murdered by an invisible force.One that carries a straight razor.It's a town that has attracted the weird and strange as far back as the eighteen hundreds. Since then disappearances, murders, suicides, and kidnappings have only grown worse. Especially targeted are a group of local girls that carry the same face...Laney's face.Laney's girlfriend Joy and her friends decide to find the seemingly-supernatural killer and take him down before he strikes again. In as violent and bloody a manner as possible.By dawn's bloody light...they will have revenge.A novella-length horror/paranormal suspense story to kick off the Fairy's Tale Series, coming soon! Book 1: ONE DARK SUMMER NIGHT, August 2017.

London, England. 1840.Gangs of four- and five-year-old orphans are being used as "apprentice" chimney sweeps--they're the only ones who can fit down the narrow chimneys, taking brushes and baskets down with them into upper-class Victorian homes to scrape out the creosote. It's good for 'em, don'tcher know?Caroline, a.k.a. the infamous Smoke, is one of the older orphans, who help lift and lower the smaller ones, handle the customers, and keep the gang runner, Hasty Wallace, from flying off the handle. But rumor is, it's time to shuffle the sixteen-year-old orphan off to other business ventures. Ones with mattresses. Lots of mattresses. If it were up to Hasty (and it is), Caroline will disappear into a brothel in Whitechapel...or a ditch. Honestly, he doesn't care which.It's time for Caroline to get out of the chimney business. And maybe it's time that Hasty Wallace learned a thing or two about orphans...

A desperate mother summons the spirits as her infant son's last hope...but what if she's wrong?A group of women hold a seance on a dark and snowy winter's night to summon forth wisdom from beyond the grave in order to save a sickly child. But what is the real nature of the spirit that answers the summons?And will they have to call forth something even worse to save them from what their seance brings?

At sunrise and sunset, the sky burns like it’s on fire and the old broken bridge over the railroad tracks on the far side of town stretches across the universes. At the end of the bridge are the fairies…Della Rae is only in this podunk Midwestern university town for the full-ride biology scholarship she’s getting. In a year or two, she’s going to Oxford as an exchange student, she knows it. Her eventual goal: to cure cancer. Only life doesn’t go like that. The way you planned.Something’s going on in the basement of the science building, something that’s tied up every single professor and sends the summer work-study students running. Rumors are going around that the professors are performing a vivisection. And nobody wants to see that.But it’s probably not going to be performed on the lab rats. Because this town has always had something weird going on. Something that involves Della Rae’s best friend, Merc, and a few other kids in town, all with the same face…