Scaring & Daring

As editor of Horror Writers Association’s newest anthology, Scaring and Daring, I am absolutely thrilled to announce the full line-up of included contributors! 

Every one of these stories is remarkable and adds an original Middle-Grade appropriate “scaring and daring” element to a classic of literature.

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

·         “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)