WWW Wednesday
Hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading
To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
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What are you currently reading?
Red Riding Hood Gets Lost
Grimmtastic Girls #2
by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams
Synopsis
Red Riding Hood might have a terrible sense of direction, but her grimmtastic friends are always there to help!
Once upon a time, in faraway Grimmlandia…
Red Riding Hood is thrilled to try out for the school play. Acting is her dream, and she’s great at it–too bad she has stage fright! After a grimmiserable audition, Red decides to focus on helping her friends Cinda, Snow, and Rapunzel save Grimm Academy from the E.V.I.L. Society. But when Red gets lost in Neverwood forest and runs into Wolfgang, who might be part of E.V.I.L., she needs her magic basket and a grimmazingly dramatic performance to figure out what’s going on!
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What did you recently finishing reading?
Cinderella Stays Late
Grimmtastic Girls #1
by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams
Synopsis
The authors of the hit Goddess Girls series put a fun and girly twist on another super-popular theme: fairy tales!
Once upon a time, in faraway Grimmlandia…
A Grimmtastic girl named Cinderella is starting her first week at Grimm Academy on the wrong foot. Cinda’s totally evil stepsisters are out to make her life miserable. The Steps tease Cinda, give her terrible advice about life at the academy, and even make her look bad in front of her new friends, Red, Snow, and Rapunzel! But when Cinda overhears the Steps plotting a villainous deed that could ruin Prince Awesome’s ball, Cinda, her new friends, and a pair of magical glass slippers have to stop them–before the last stroke of midnight!
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What do you think you’ll read next?
Screamscapes
by Evans Light
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I’ve read many of these stories as individual publications but there are a few new ones I’m dying to read.
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Screamscapes: Tales of Terror – A new collection showcasing the dark fiction of Evans Light.The SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION is signed and numbered, limited to 250 copies. available exclusively from THE LIGHT BROTHERS Book Store at:
www.evans-light.com/book-store“If you love writers like Joe Hill, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson or Joe R. Lansdale, you owe it to yourself to give Evans Light a try…this new voice on the scene packs enough inventive storytelling twists to delight even the most jaded fans of horror and suspense.”
Screamscapes: Tales of Terror is a modern collection of uniquely twisted tales for even the most jaded horror fan!
Packed with short stories and novellas that encompass everything from TALES FROM THE CRYPT-style mayhem and razor-sharp scares to the poetically eerie supernatural, with a healthy dose of pitch black humor, Screamscapes: Tales of Terror is sure to become a new favorite.
THIS COLLECTION INCLUDES:
Crawlspace
Fooling around on your wife can be hazardous to your health.
Jusk ask Tom. He’s a man with a lot to juggle: a frustrated wife, a secret new girlfriend, and the unpleasant task of trying to keep his deteriorating vintage farmhouse from falling down around him.
Now with his wife out of town for the week, Tom is eager to get busy under the covers with his beautiful new lover – but first there’s something he has to finish up in…the Crawlspace.
Whatever Possessed You?
A strange encounter and a cryptic message leaves Gerard Faust a changed man. Now a novel he can’t remember writing is burning up the sales charts, but is something other than his own talent lurking within?
ArborEATum
When a band of westward pioneers – lost, starving, and desperate -stumbles upon an unlikely oasis in the middle of a barren prairie, Micah wonders if his family has finally caught a lucky break…or does this new Garden of Eden hide a forgotten terror behind a veil of earthly delights?
Curtains for Love
When Claire and James move into a beautiful Victorian home together, she soon discovers that he is being seduced by a secret from his past, one thought buried long ago.
Gertrude
“Tell me something interesting about yourself.”
“Well, I have a symbiotic twin named Gertrude. She lives in a small cavity under my ribcage, next to my spleen. If I lie still in bed at night, I can hear her. I think she might be crying.”
So begins this short twisted tale where an obvious lie faces off with the truth.
Black Door
William and his brothers are on their way to summer camp. But when a wrong turn leads them to an abandoned campground, things start to get weird in this nail-biting and suspenseful short story.
The Mole People Beneath the City
Late at night in the subway, a little girl and her father wait for a train that runs deep beneath New York City. It will be a ride they never forget.
Pay Back
Stephen Hill has been heaping abuse on poor Joe King since second grade.
Now they’re grown men with nothing in common, and Joe still patiently endures Stephen’s unrelenting ridicule. But when friendship is only a matter of perspective, PAY BACK might be just around the corner in this irreverent and darkly humorous tale of revenge.
Nose Hears
A man thinks he might be losing his mind when he starts to hear voices inside of his nose.
The Package
When a world-famous personality discovers there’s a way to enlarge his “package” to become the world’s biggest, he finds it an opportunity too enormous to resist.
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So, whatcha readin?
