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 what will soon be SEVEN anthologies, taking fairytales and classic movie monsters and having just a lot of weird, crazy, sometimes chilling FUN.
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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!
The Wolfman.
Where does the Hollywood version end and folklore begin? What is the truth about the wolfman, the werewolf, the were, the lycan, the skinwalker and shapeshifter?
You know what? It doesn’t matter!
Because here between these pages, we invite you to explore and enjoy and shiver and cry and laugh and cheer and sigh and even fall in love with the amazing imaginations of seventeen authors, who explore their own particular twists and turns and reflections on just what it means — or could mean — to be the Wolf.
Just which version do you believe in? Lost soul — cursed victim — avenger — motherless child — star-crossed lover — lonely heart — healer — music lover — loyal friend — hero?
Which version of the Wolfman most resonates with you?
Open the book, explore, and find out.
He could be someone you know. He could be the “boy next door.” He could be you …
Our first anthology.
Taking off from the Beauty and the Beast theme … but with a twist. NOT your granny’s Beauty and the Beast tale … well, mostly.
A marriage counselor who has never been in love… A missing beauty queen with an oversized ego… A hunter crippled by his own ambition…Settlers on their way to a new home in the Rockies in 1848… A jeweler’s obsession… A hero-tuber and a mystery man trapped in a haunted house… Infatuation and ego aboard a space ship bound for a new world… Curses, plants, and shapeshifters in a South American garden… A gamers’ quest with unconventional challenges… A castle and a beast being strangled by roses –and a curse… A princess’ problematic seventeenth birthday and the curses surrounding it… And a castle besieged by ice and basilisks!
What do all these things have in common? They are all variations on the Beauty and the Beast retelling. Fall in love with an old fairy tale in a whole new way as you enter their worlds and find enchantment!
