Release Day for: SCARING AND DARING

Can’t believe I missed promotingthis yesterday on its official release day (something I’ve been looking forwardto for years!) but announcing this new book release through HarperCollins!:

SCARING AND DARING

Edited by Eric J. Guignard

In partnership with Horror Writers Association, this MG anthology takes some ofthe best-loved stories from classic literary canon and reimagines them with afrightful (and fun!) twist!


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Early praise for the SCARING AND DARING:

With supernaturalcreatures including dangerous fae, a werewolf, witches, and a ghost horse,there’s something here for any young reader inclined to the fantastical…Uncanny fun!" Kirkus Reviews

“A win-win for any tween or teen bookshelf.”  —Booklist


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Full Table of Incredible Contents includes:

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

• “What We Found Beneath Mount Etna” by Lisa Morton (from Journey to the Center of the Earth)

• “Prince Badi az-Zaman and the Ogress Fattan” by Tanvir Ahmed (from One Thousand and One Nights)

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

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

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

• “The Shadows in the Rock” by Joe R. Lansdale (from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

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

• “The Boy of La Mancha Rides 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 of Mulan”)

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

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

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

And GORGEOUS cover art by Denis Zilber!!


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Available for sale here:

HarperCollins: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/scaring-and-daring?variant=43735904649250
 
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Scaring-Daring-Terrifying-Association-Anthology/dp/0063372479
 



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