Many moons ago, we thought we’d have some fun and invite our writing friends to join us in creating an anthology of stories taking the trope of Beauty & the Beast and going off at different angles. That turned into When Your Beauty IS the Beast …. and spawned many more anthologies, taking fairytales and classic movie monsters and having just a lot of weird, crazy, sometimes chilling FUN.
Fairytales in the spring, classic movie monsters in the fall ….
Once Bitten… (Dracula)
What do you think of when someone says “vampire,” or more specifically, “Dracula”?
Lugosi? Welles? Langella? Nouri? Brett? Stamp? Landau? Hamilton? Hirsch? Hauer? Carradine? Lee? Niven? Storch? Nielson? Evans? Cage?
Whether to chill, thrill, repel, or laugh, hundreds have picked up the cape and fangs. We all have our favorites.
Ye Olde Dragon Books humbly presents twelve new stories and visions of the legend and lore for your reading pleasure. Dracula as hero, villain, nemesis, ally, love interest, boy next door, grumbling neighbor, victim or schemer … there’s a story in here for every taste.
You might just have a new favorite Count when you’re done reading.
Word of advice: you might want to keep the lights on …
Trouble Comes in Threes (The Three Pigs)
They say “three’s the charm,” but is that true?
When it comes to three pigs, of all different kinds, who can be sure?
Inside these pages lurk evil pigs, silly pigs, brave pigs, musical pigs, magical pigs, lazy pigs, diligent pigs, arrogant pigs, manic pigs, and pigs fleeing a future as bacon.
Oh, and then there are the houses of straw, sticks and bricks, and multiple interpretations thereof.
And don’t forget the wolves. Evil wolves, professorial wolves, vengeful wolves, defender wolves, and wolves just trying to help their friends out of a sticky, piggy mess.
If the story of the three pigs isn’t your favorite fairytale … it might just be by the time you finish reading.
Come inside and see pigs through our authors’ eyes. You’ll never look at pigs and straw and sticks and bricks and bacon the same way again…
The Invisible Files (The Invisible Man)
Now you see them … now you don’t…
Who hasn’t dreamed of being invisible, either to play a trick or to escape or to get revenge? For greed or power or justice? Who hasn’t felt invisible, at one time or another?
What if it became real? What if you dreamed of the power of invisibility, and achieved it at too high a price? What if you became invisible by accident? What would you do with that power?
These eleven stories explore what it means to fade utterly from view, by choice, by accident, by need, through pain or greed.
Which story could be your story … but for the grace of God?
Tales from the Forest takes the Red Riding Hood trope and twists it all around, making villains heroes and victims villains, taking a fantasy setting and putting it in modern day or the future, stretching it to its silly limits — and what really excites us: puts the theme in some familiar story worlds created by returning authors.
Get ready for another great, mind-stretching, fun time!
DON’T GO IN THE WATER
Classic Monsters Anthology 3
A very strange family vacation that goes awry. A bunch of fairy gardeners who run afoul of a water sprite. Creatures who can control human minds, until one man discovers a way to infiltrate their ranks. Sirens, mutant frogs, an ancient demonic river monster, even one monster in space!
And what about a Gill Man who tries to join Classic Monsters Anonymous, but is refused entry? Bittersweet friendship, an escapee from an aquarium, and a monster in the lake. Another Enchanted Castle story that will leave you in stitches!
Good creatures, bad creatures. Fall in love with the Creature From the Black Lagoon all over again.
And think carefully before you go in the water.
A princess with thirteen children would give anything for a good night’s sleep, but her fairy godmothers don’t seem to have practical answers for her.
A veterinarian falls into a coma after trying to treat a dog who had contact with an unusual lizard. But can the sheriff find a cure and save her life?
A spy can’t remember her past. Her partner must trigger her memories before enemy agents find and kill her.
A young girl signs a contract to save her family from eviction and ends up frozen far into the future.
A prince falls into a sleep realm, and finds his true love among the Fae when he thought she was long dead. But can he find a way to save her?
Join our Ye Olde Dragon authors as we leap out of the box and into seventeen diversely fabulous worlds surrounding the Sleeping Beauty legend!
Who really is the monster in the Frankenstein mythos?
Creator or Creation?
Who is the victim, and who is the victor?
Join us as we explore variations on the theme of Frankenstein — doctor and monster — in modern-day, historic and fantasy settings, through the eyes of creator, creation, and those they encounter along the way. We’ll visit some friends and settings we’ve met before, and new ones to make you smile, shiver, and shed a tear.
Guaranteed, you’ll never look at a mad scientist the same way again.
A burst of inspiration drives a baker to build a tower—without a door. But it proves to be the perfect dwelling for a certain old woman. The question is –Why?
A tower can be a safe place, especially during a zombie apocalypse. But what do you do when your safe place becomes a prison?
When communications between two castles have been cut off, a maiden must ride to rescue her friend from an evil … realtor?
We all know the tale of Rapunzel and her hair growth problem, but what if her hair grew – everywhere? When the moon was full and bright? Yes, we have a werewolf in our midst!
Chemical warfare is a sad fact of our modern life, but what if scientists learned to modify people to give them supernatural abilities? Like telekinesis? Or maybe tentacle hair?
On a spaceship far away, a young woman lives alone in a different kind of tower. One day, her songs reach a fellow traveler…
These are but a few of the stories you are about to dive into! The sixteen stories within these pages will take you to the realms of the fairies, to desert lands far away, to war-torn places where weary characters just try to survive, to forests, to windswept seascapes, to London and New York City, and into the far reaches of the galaxy. Explore the realms with us!
