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  • Alice's Adventures in Underland: The Queen of Stilled Hearts

    DeAnna Knippling

    eBook (Wonderland Press, Aug. 15, 2015)
    “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.
  • Mindsight

    Dean Kenyon

    eBook (Wonderland Press, May 7, 2018)
    No idea is so good it can’t go bad.Frank Mallory is a private detective working for a new type of national detective agency: a well-organized one. Private Eyes, Inc., has the latest in data analysis, training techniques, cross-discipline integration, illicit back-door deals, and cynical programmers who don’t care what they have to do as long as they don’t lose their benefits while doing it. PEI has it all covered.The right mix of idealism and plausible deniability can work wonders.But that doesn’t mean that Frank’s in the clear when he starts work on a case involving the new designer drug Mindsight. Mindsight is a miracle drug. It won’t give you telepathy, but it comes close, triggering a wave of pure empathy that helps treat everything from domestic violence to schizophrenia.The problem is, if you take too much of it, you’ll understand someone else’s point of view…all the way to death.Of course a serial killer starts butchering Mindsight addicts. As if nobody could see that coming. All he has to do is ask nicely. And maybe offer a little something the victim can’t refuse.The real twist is when a Mindsight addict fights back…and takes down a cop, saying that he admitted to being the serial killer before he died.Frank’s hired to find solid, incontestable proof that the man, someone he used to work with, is actually the murderer, so a rich man’s daughter, the purported victim, can walk free.Seems straightforward, right?Right.Book 1 in the Company Justice series, starring Frank Mallory.
  • A Murder of Crows: Seventeen Tales of Monsters and the Macabre

    DeAnna Knippling

    eBook (Wonderland Press, Oct. 27, 2014)
    “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…
  • One Dark Summer Night

    DeAnna Knippling

    eBook (Wonderland Press, July 31, 2017)
    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…
  • The Clockwork Alice

    DeAnna Knippling

    language (Wonderland Press, Feb. 26, 2017)
    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!
  • October Nights: 31 Tales of Hauntings and Halloween

    DeAnna Knippling

    eBook (Wonderland Press, Oct. 31, 2017)
    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.)
  • Crime du Jour: 31 Days of Malfeasance, Misconduct, and Immorality

    Diane R. Thompson

    eBook (Wonderland Press, Nov. 6, 2019)
    A crime a day keeps the injustice away.31 very short tales of crime and criminals, from Aggravated Assault to White-Collar Crime, for those days when you need to escape from law and order......and through the loopholes to the dark side of justice.From a high-school sewing club that has taken up some illegal classic patterns, to a wealthy clique with a strange Halloween celebration. From a tour guide who knows where to find a timely shovel, to a serial killer with multi-purpose luggage. From good-luck charms that only a shoplifter can love, to a literary money-laundering scheme.31 twisted tales of revenge, racketeering, and resetting other people's passwords.
  • By Dawn's Bloody Light

    DeAnna Knippling

    language (Wonderland Press, June 26, 2017)
    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.
  • How Smoke Got Out of the Chimneys

    DeAnna Knippling

    eBook (Wonderland Press, Nov. 22, 2016)
    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...
  • The Society of Secret Cats

    De Kenyon

    language (Wonderland Press, June 26, 2011)
    What if cats were there to guard your dreams?The dashing, handsome Ferntail the cat is a new guardian of dreams, facing his first real problem: a nightmare that comes from outside his human girl’s mind. Where are her nightmare coming from?Fortunately, the Society of Secret Cats has sent help.A beautiful and mysterious cat has come to lead Ferntail and his girl to safety. But will the troubles they face be bigger than them both?A Defenders of Dream story:The Society of Secret CatsThe Nightmare HouseKing of Cats
  • Tales Told Under the Covers: Zombie Girl Invasion & Other Stories

    De Kenyon

    eBook (Wonderland Press, Oct. 9, 2011)
    Your kid is a little bit weird,reads over their age group, and stays up late to watch horror movies with you. Here’s their book. Ten tales of fantasy, adventure, death, alien invasions, bullies, and the brave kids who fight back. Zombie girls who really have girl germs. Food that bites back. Wizards who are scared of their own power. Murdered (and murderous) pets. Secret superpowers. Secret cats. And that last, great voyage into the unknown.Stories for bright kids who think reading is boooooring. Stories to be read by firelight to robots, warrior queens, and dinosaurs.Stories to be told when the witches are ready to eat you but want to hear just one more story before they shove you in the oven.Stories to be read under the covers, by flashlight.
  • The Nightmare House

    De Kenyon

    language (Wonderland Press, March 14, 2019)
    What do you do when your house is giving you nightmares?Ferntail the cat is quite proud of being the guardian of young Jaela's dreams. But he can do nothing about the nightmares that the house is giving the whole family. For that, a dog must be called in.But when the dog arrives, he isn't the big, tough German Shepherd or Rottweiler that Ferntail hopes will be able to bring the house back into line...but a completely ridiculous, panting, fat-cheeked,annoying pug puppy.The only question is:Will Ferntail or the house get him first?A Defenders of Dream story:The Society of Secret CatsThe Nightmare HouseKing of Cats