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Grimm and Grimmer
Dark Tales for Dark Times
Grimm and Grimmer is a collection of fairy tales told from a modern perspective.
Part of the attraction of the original Grimm Brothers' tales was that of their relevance to their audience, and the tales in this book capture the magic and horror of living in modern times.
Though the settings vary, the talented authors within the cover of this book speak to the mysterious, the unknown and the unknowable, which is not lost in these times.
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Creator of Toontown and Roger Rabbit tackles Fairytale Land in this Three Little Pigs satire.
Explore the magic land of Suburbia, where happiness and conformity can be achieved through miracle potions called Paxil and Ritalin!
Stan Booth said he'd give anything to be a successful author. But such claims should never be made aloud; especially when an elf happens to be within hearing range.
When the most beautiful woman in all the lands casts down her golden locks for men to climb, there's GOT to be a catch.
Life's not exactly been a fairy tale? Why not start over, and watch yourself succeed this time?
Once Upon a Time in Alphabet City
By Joel Best
Pinocchio's gunning Luckies and knocking back bourbon at the bar when the fairy with the blue hair steps in from the street wearing a sheer day-glo blouse and hotpants that leave little to the imagination.
There's never a prince around when you need one. Sometimes a girl's just gotta rely on a shotgun and a methadone clinic.
If you're gonna try to ditch a couple of kids in the urban jungle, make sure their daddy's not the local mob boss, and that they don't leave a trail of cash to find their way home.
Rags to riches never happens overnight, unless perhaps there are magical forces involved. But if you're fresh out of magic, a hearty helping of illegal sabotage works just as well.
They say beauty is skin deep, but what about purity? In this tale, the less than prudent are looking a bit dusky these days.
If you're going to curse yourself with a mutant offspring, then send it packing to live in the forest, you might want to clear out before it comes back with a chip on its spiny shoulder.
Even with a perfect new fairy tale bride at your side, you should never grow so content as to fall asleep behind the wheel. The New Jersey Parkway is a bad place to wake up dead. Especially if you take the wrong exit on your way to Heaven.
The legendary Lilith comes forth in modern times, revealing the real story of Adam and Eve, and this dark tale is no Garden of Eden.
About the Authors and Editors
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Adrienne Jones is an author of speculative fiction, whose works include the novellas Temple of Cod (Creative Guy Publishing) and Gypsies Stole My Tequila (Amityville House of Pancakes, Vol 1 – Creative Guy Publishing) and the novel The Hoax (Mundania Press). Her works have garnered accolades from reviewers all over the spectrum in speculative fiction; from die-hard science fiction readers to die-hard horror fans.
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Pete S. Allen is the creative evil genius behind the Amityville House of Pancakes anthologies of humorous speculative fiction, and the secondary evil genius behind Grimm and Grimmer.
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Gary K. Wolf has published five science fiction novels and scores of short stories. He is best known as the celebrated author of Who Censored Roger Rabbit? Walt Disney Pictures and Steven Spielberg turned Wolf’s literary vision of humans cohabitating with animated characters into the blockbuster film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The film got four Academy Awards and won Wolf the Hugo Award.
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Aurelio O'Brien led a long and successful film career as an illustrator, animator, story artist, and graphic designer before becoming a full-time writer, and is the author the light-hearted and unique scifi novel, EVE.
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Paul E. Martens is widely credited with teaching Mohandas Gandhi to cha-cha. He enjoys tying his shoes, wrestling with his conscience and upholstery.
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Carlos Hernandez is a writer and English professor living in New York City. Look for his upcoming co-written novel, Abecedarium, to be published by Chiasmus Press in 2007.
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Joel Best's fiction has appeared in such publications as Strange Horizons, Eclectica, Quick Fiction and Pindeldyboz. He lives in upstate New York with his wife and son.
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Chris Cox is a deranged, one-eyed hunchback wandering by night through the wastelands of Pawtucket. His age isn’t known, but sightings go back three hundred years and he’s generally believed to be a cannibal. Author of one and a half phenomalous black comedy novels, he’s represented by ParkEast Literary Agency, with whom he only communicates via cryptic notes written on apples injected with larvae. Needless to say, he’s a tricky one.
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D. Richard Pearce is a writer from the west coast of Canada. he is currently in exile, because of crimes committed by his weasels. Pearce writes in many perspectives, not least of which is third person, the style chosen for this biography. while this can be awkward and confusing to write about oneself, it means that the label can be "BIO" and not "AUTOBIO." he likes writing sentences without Proper Casing, but only on personal websites or blogs—never in stories—as he believes in saving avant garde for the funny papers.
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Jefre's been writing on and off for the past several years. Fair 'n Square represents, by far, his most irrelevant ... er, irreverent effort. Judge not his character by it, but rather, chalk it up to his inexplicable affinity for rednecks and fast women (hmm ... this pretty much does speak to his character, doesn't it?). He credits Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy as his primary influences, but you wouldn't know it after reading Fair 'n Square.
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Darwyn Jones lives in Chicago, Illinois and recently finished his first novel, First Murders. His work has appeared in the Windy City Times, Hairtrigger, Chicago Life, Story Week Reader and Fictionary. He currently freelances for the Not For Tourists website and the Chicago Tribune's metromix website.
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Jake Allen is a high school teacher and lives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Jim Henson told the Jack My Hedgehog story way better and look where it got him.
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Mike E. Purfield is the author of Stereo Sanctity. He has fiction in print
and on the web. You can always find him at MikeEPurfield.com.
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Jessica Murray lives and writes in Missoula, Montana, where she is raising two fine strapping lads. She got her start as an opinion columnist in her husband's award-winning weekly newspaper; she then decided that writing might be a real job after all and is currently finishing up a creative writing degree at the University of Montana. When she is not writing, Jessica obsessively reads about histories and mythologies of religions, and dreams of the day that she will quit her day job.
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