DeAnna Knippling

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About DeAnna Knippling

DeAnna Knippling has a browser history full of murder, gore, and Victorian street maps. She has ambitions to have a secret room in the basement. She loves crows, cheese, chokecherry jam, and hot sauce, but not all at once.

You can find her in Colorado with her husband and daughter, or at her website, www.WonderlandPress.com, where she writes gothics and weird fiction as herself, mysteries as Diane R. Thompson, sci-fi detective noir as Dean Kenyon, and middle-grade adventure fiction as De Kenyon.

Someday, one of her pen names will murder one of the others, she’s sure of it.

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Alice's Adventures in Underland: The Queen of Stilled Hearts Aug 15, 2015

by DeAnna Knippling

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The real story behind the Alice in Wonderland books…

In 1854, young Miss Alice Liddell and Charles Dodgson (also known as Lewis Carroll) met over a photograph. The photograph was a performance commanded by Alice’s mother, a woman with lofty aspirations.

One does not snub one of the best photographers in the United Kingdom, even if he is undead.

Across the world, the virulent infection has eased, and a cure of sorts has been created, keeping the undead under control, and preventing those who are Infected from turning. All is well.

Or is it?

The dreadfully shy Reverend Dodgson reaches out to Alice and her sisters to tell them a remarkable story—an innocent tale filled with magic and wonder. White Rabbits, Red Queens, and Mad Hatters abound.

But his tale contains dark secrets that might destroy the reputations of some of the highest people in the United Kingdom.

And Alice’s mother simply can’t allow her husband’s pet zombie to take liberties such as that.

An alternate history behind the background of the Alice in Wonderland books, and the tale within the tale of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Book 1 in the Alice's Adventures in Underland Series, followed by Alice's Adventures in Underland: The Knight of Shattered Dreams.

We’re all Infected here…

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Alice's Adventures in Underland: The Knight of Shattered Dreams May 28, 2019

by DeAnna Knippling

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The real story behind Through the Looking-Glass…

It was a Britain that had been overrun by a plague of zombies.

A Britain that had fought the zombies, not quite won, and yet declared victory.

The rabid dead had been mercifully put down. The less virulently infected were treated with a sort of fungal “tea” that kept their urges to eat their fellow men at bay. With a bit of effort and discipline, one of the Infected could be right as rain.

Oxford don and reluctant member of the undead Charles Dodgson has been banished from the Liddell household at the behest of Dean Henry Liddell’s wife, and forbidden the presence of her daughters. Dark accusations against Dodgson abound, fostered by their mother.

But years have passed, the girls have grown, and Mrs. Dodgson orders the girls to have their photographs taken—to display themselves on the marriage market—by one of the premier photographers of the time.

None other than Charles Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll.

But Alice does not wish to make things up with her old mentor; she does not wish to be put on the marriage market. What she wishes to is marry her childhood friend, Prince Leopold.

But the Queen does not approve.

All, however, may be moot, as the plague of the Infected once again rises, this time in a more virulent form, and carries away everything before it, like a flood.

A tale of gaslamps, dark fantasy, and gothic horror delights.

Part 2 of Alice’s Adventures in Underland. Part 1 is Alice’s Adventures in Underland: The Queen of Stilled Hearts.

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Stories We Tell After Midnight Oct 21, 2019

by Rachel A. Brune, Jane Hawley, M.P. Giddings, Elizabeth Donald, Nicholas Belardes, Christy Mann, Cristel Orrand, Adam N. Leonard, Jennifer Nestojko, Adam Messer, J. Summerset, Thea Brune, Tina Riddle, Carol Gyzander, Dexter Rowland

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A changeling binds a young girl to a mirror and takes her place…
A salesman pursues closing a deal until it costs him everything…
An ancient Duchess graciously invites you on a tour of her orangerie…
This is the world of Crone Girls Press. Here, the shadows keep their secrets and the moon hides from deeds cast in her glow. In these pages, the Fae walk as human, the dead burn with their anger at the living, the creatures that live in the dark places of the wrong zip code creep out of the shadows and into the kitchen. Stories We Tell After Midnight is a collection of short horror fiction from established names in the genre as well as a number of debut authors.

Table of Contents

Welcome by Rachel A. Brune
“The Orangery” ~ Jane Hawley
“L’appel du vide” ~ M. P. Giddings
“In Memoriam” ~ Elizabeth Donald
“Kitchen Spirits” ~ Nicholas Belardes
“Mirrors” ~ J. Summerset
“Gatekeepers” ~ Cristel Orrand
“Enter the Wolf” ~ Adam N. Leonard
“The Soul Within” ~ Jennifer Nestojko
“Gobbl’uns” ~ Thea Brune
“Have You Come To Let Me Out?” ~ Tina Riddle
“It Has to Cool First” ~ Carol Gyzander
“Creature From the Blue Lagoon” ~ Dexter Rowland
“Uncle Charlie” ~ Christy Mann
“Wrong Turn” ~ Adam Messer

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The House Without a Summer: A Novel of Gothic Horror Mar 2, 2020

by DeAnna Knippling

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The year is 1816, in Northamptonshire. A red, spiderwebbed haze covers the sun. Temperatures drop, fields flood and freeze, grain rots on the stem. The people are starving, and even the wealthy and titled are affected by shortages. Sickness spreads as a red fungus overtakes fields, seals over windows, and infiltrates cellars.

On the way back from the Napoleonic Wars in France, Marcus, the younger son of the Earl of Penderbrook, returns to find his brother dead, the estate covered in fungus, and his father sinking into madness.

The last thing Marcus wants to do is be responsible for Penderbook; he wants only to spend the rest of his life playing cards, drinking, and seducing other men’s wives. But even the responsible life of an heir escapes from his grasp, as his brother’s body disappears, his father turns violent, and pale monsters horrify the countryside.

As Marcus pieces together the truth, he discovers a past more tainted with evil than he could have suspected.

From the family wine cellar to the folly behind the house—from the pond where he played as a child to the new cotton mill built along the stream—

None of what happens at Penderbrook is innocent.

And the monstrosities that have been committed may still be carried in Marcus’s blood…

A tale of transformation and terror, set in the year Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.

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I Like My Science...MAD (Blaze Ward Presents Book 2) Nov 24, 2019

by Leah Cutter, Eric Cherry, DeAnna Knippling, Kate Pavelle, JB Murphy, Katharina Gerlach, Barbara G.Tarn, Ken Brady, Blaze Ward, Knotted Road Press

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I like my science...mad.

How mad, you ask? Come with us on a twisted journey of science gone wrong and gods rising to threaten us all. Of private detectives on the moon and dieselpunk ladies saving the day. Academics making dark pacts and taking vengeance into their own hands.
Mad.

The second Blaze Ward Presents anthology asks writers and readers to envision mad science and entertain us all.

They succeeded. Come see.

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Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 2 Oct 1, 2020

by Rachel A. Brune, Mike Sullivan, Nicola Lombardi, Gregory L. Norris, Jude Reid, Jay Caselberg, Michele Tracy Berger, Laura E. Price, Joe Scipione, Liam Hogan, Jeff Samson, Samantha Bryant, Eddie Generous, Tim Jeffreys, Joseph Rubas, Pedro Iniguez, Elizabeth Davis, EJ Sidle, Solange Hommel, Larina Warnock, T.M. Starnes, Eliza Master, Priya Sridhar, DeAnna Knippling, J.L. Knight, J. Weintraub

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As a deadly scourge overwhelms the continent, four survivors race to find a last exit out of Australia.

Up in the attic, a bedtime story outlives its storyteller.

A city boy visits his country cousins and stumbles on a terrifying family secret.

From a film set in the Arizona desert, to an overgrown rambling old house in the Florida swamps, to the dusty streets of a small Mexican town, the stories in this volume plunge the reader into the shadows of a world almost forgotten by modern fables of cold science and bright sunlight. They are the brushed over voices who call a warning to those who would comfort themselves in the thought that monsters aren’t real, and those things can’t happen here. Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 2 offers up tales of revenge, of hunger, and of the horror that stalks you just beyond the glow of your cell phone light, but only to those who dare turn the page…

*Table of Contents*
Bedtime Tales ~ Nicola Lombardi / trans. J. Weintraub
Baby Gray ~ Gregory L. Norris
Iron Teeth ~ Jude Reid
Victoria ~ Jay Caselberg
Family Line ~ Michele Tracy Berger
Primary Manifestations ~ Laura E. Price
Cameraman ~ Joe Scipione
Seek, Don't Hide ~ Liam Hogan
Hey Diddle Diddle ~ Jeff Samson
The Cleaning Lady ~ Samantha Bryant
Whisper Wood ~ Eddie Generous
Last Shot ~ Tim Jeffreys
False Confession ~ Joseph Rubas
The Curse of the Cucuy ~ Pedro Iniguez
The Cut-Mouth Woman and Me ~ Elizabeth Davis
(and I feel fine) ~ EJ Sidle
Mouths to Feed ~Solange Hommel
Red Rover, Red Rover ~ Larina Warnock
Cell Phone Lights ~ T.M. Starnes
Lamina ~ Eliza Master
The Terrible Teddies ~ Priya Sridhar
The Thing All These Relationships Have in Common Is You ~ DeAnna Knippling
Field Trip ~ J.L. Knight
The Bugs Come Out at Night ~ Mike Sullivan

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UbiquiCity: Tales of the Fractopian Future Nov 14, 2017

by Tod Foley, Antony Copeland, Tod Davies, DeAnna Knippling, S L Koch, Shariann Lewitt, Adrian McCauley, T Reynolds, Niko Carcosa

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It is the dawn of the 22nd century, and in the sprawling development known as “UbiquiCity,” the most wealthy and powerful districts possess all the latest in smart technology, with every building, device and control system connected via the Internet Of Things.

The world is augmented and identity is fluid. Satellite-guided cars drive themselves. Busy drones fill the skies. Cloud-assisted bots perform once-human jobs. Appliances, vehicles, buildings, media devices, products, streetlights, roadsigns and even toilets communicate electronically, all under the watchful eye of the AI CitySystem. For the inhabitants of the UbiComp zones, life is sweet.

But not everyone in the city is so blessed.

Short stories by Niko Carcosa, Antony Copeland, Tod Davies, Tod Foley, DeAnna Knippling, SL Koch, Shariann Lewitt, Adrian McCauley, and T Reynolds paint a picture of a realistic future city where ubiquitous computing is the source of much innovation, renovation and social disruption.

Watch for the GameMaster’s Sourcebook usable with any science fiction roleplaying game, taking you inside the world of UbiquiCity!

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A Murder of Crows: Seventeen Tales of Monsters and the Macabre (Short Story Collections) Oct 27, 2014

by DeAnna Knippling

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“What everyone want to see,” the crow said, “is someone getting eaten. Preferably someone who deserves it.”

Out in the middle of nowhere in the Great Plains of the United States, it doesn’t matter where you are, really, or even what year it is. All that matters is whether you have enough to eat before the winter sets in.

Whether your family loves you or shuns you, and whether or not you have a way to keep from going mad, those things don’t matter so much.

The girl has little else but stories.

But the main problem is that her mother is going mad, mad in a way that wrecks the lives and sanity of everyone around her, and may even warp reality itself. The house creaks and groans and twists, as the corruption consumes everyone—almost everyone—within.

Fortunately, the crows find the girl outside and alone. And they love stories.

The monsters are coming.

At least the little girl has never been very heavy…

Seventeen murderous, ravenous tales told by the crows, to help heal a girl without food, without love, and now without home. Unless her mother comes to reclaim her…

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October Nights: 31 Tales of Hauntings and Halloween Oct 31, 2017

by DeAnna Knippling

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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.)

Monster Road Trip (Amazing Monster Tales Book 2) Nov 3, 2019

by Jamie Ferguson, DeAnna Knippling, Rebecca Hodgkins, Shannon Lawrence, Mark Leslie, Jason Dias, Meyari McFarland, Sharon Reamer, Ron Collins, Jeff Wood

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Monsters start growling…
…head out on the highway!

Ten tales of road trips, vacations, tourist destinations, and pits stops that go horribly, horribly wrong. These monsters are out for adventure! But they may not have filled up the gas tank first.
Put on your shades, slather on your sunscreen—
(Especially if you’re a vampire!)
—and load your swimsuit and your best beach bod in to the car, because it’s time to roll out for the summer—scales, tentacles, and all!

Featuring stories by:

Mark Leslie • Ron Collins • Shannon Lawrence • DeAnna Knippling • Jeff Wood • Rebecca Hodgkins • Jamie Ferguson • Meyari McFarland • Jason Dias • Sharon Kae Reamer

AMAZING MONSTER TALES

Amazing Monster Tales is a series of monster anthologies full of fast-paced action-adventure stories. Whether you love monsters or fear them, they are the coolest! This series features a mix of classic monsters and monsters that you’ve never seen before!

NEXT ISSUE

Look for IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE!…and watch out for hitchhikers!

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It Came From Outer Space! (Amazing Monster Tales Book 3) Jan 31, 2020

by Jamie Ferguson, DeAnna Knippling, Travis Heermann, Stefon Mears, Ron Collins, Thea Hutcheson, Robert Jeschonek, Shannon Lawrence, Meyari McFarland, Debbie Mumford

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Hello my Earthling! Hello my starling!
Hello my space-time alien gal!

A baker’s dozen of tales about creatures from outer space who may or may not have boldly gone where they really shouldn’t have. Tales of aliens who test the creatures of Earth…tales of Earthlings who test the creatures from other planets…aliens who attack…aliens who defend…and aliens who are a little too close for comfort.

Prepare to discover realms at the furthest edges of human imagination.

From the depths of outer space…

To the depths of the sea…

To Portland…and beyond!

Featuring stories by:

Travis Heermann · Rebecca Hodgkins · Charles Eugene Anderson & Jim LeMay · Meyari McFarland · Jason Dias · Debbie Mumford · Ron Collins · Shannon Lawrence · Jamie Ferguson · Stefon Mears · Thea Hutcheson · Robert Jeschonek · DeAnna Knippling

AMAZING MONSTER TALES

NEXT ISSUE

Look for INTO THE BRINY DEEP…and watch out for the sea monsters!

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Stars in the Darkness: Stories of Wisdom, Justice, and Love Nov 13, 2017

by Jamie Ferguson, Blaze Ward, David H. Hendrickson, T. Thorn Coyle, Leslie Claire Walker, Brenda Carre, Rebecca M. Senese, David C. Stier, DeAnna Knippling, Brigid Collins

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Stars in the Darkness is a collection of stories about why being just matters, and what the ramifications are for individuals, groups, towns, countries, or even worlds if justice is not expected, encouraged, or enforced. The stories cover a wide range, from historical fiction to fantasy to alternate realities. Every tale, whether set in ancient Egypt, in a future where only the rich can afford to increase their children’s intelligence through genetic engineering, or about a man turned into a zombie by accident, sends a message about what matters. These stories show bravery, compassion, courage—and consequences.

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