Announcement for SCARING AND DARING anthology!!!

Absolutely thrilled toannounce the finalization, preorder, and list of contributors for the latestanthology that I developed!!

Horror Writers Association’s Scaring and Daring is an assemblage of originalMiddle Grade-appropriate short stories adding a “scaring and daring” element toa classic of literature.

Coming August 2025 from HarperCollins, Scaring and Daring will include the following stories:

• “Hook and the Hand ofFate” by Teel James Glenn and Maxwell I. Gold (from Peter Pan)

• “What We Found BeneathMount Etna” by Lisa Morton (from Journeyto the Center of the Earth)

• “Prince Badi az-Zamanand the Ogress Fattan” by TanvirAhmed (from One Thousand and One Nights)

• “The Hound of theBasking Villas” by Kelley Armstrong(from The Hound of the Baskervilles)

• “The Lost Musketeer” by Maurice Broaddus (from The ThreeMusketeers)

• “The Secret (Thing inthe) Garden” by Delilah S. Dawson(from The Secret Garden)

• “The Shadows in theRock” by Joe R. Lansdale (from Adventuresof Huckleberry Finn)

• “A Lucky Find” by Kristi Petersen Schoonover(from Moby-Dick)

• “The Boy of La ManchaRides a Ghost Horse” by Carlos Hernandez(from Don Quixote (or, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha))

• “The Glass Slipper” by Sherrilyn Kenyon (from Cinderella)

• “Wolf in the Mirror” by Sarwat Chadda (from The Jungle Book)

• “Vessel Eaters” by Ai Jiang (from “The Ballad ofMulan”)

• “Freckle and Hide” by Jonathan Maberry (from TheStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)

• “Out on a Limb” by Nancy Holder (from Pollyanna)

• “The Gruelmaster” by Nathan Carson (from Oliver Twist)

Edited by Eric J. Guignard. Preorders available now atHarperCollinsor Amazon.This book is scheduled for release August, 2025.

And look at thisbreath-taking artwork!!!

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