DeAnna Knippling

The dead walk the streets of Victorian England...but Alice's greatest dangers come from the living. In a world that has survived a number of zombie plagues, the undead are shackled, enslaved, and feared. Young Alice Pleasance Liddell-the real Alice-encounters The Reverend Mr. Dodgson-an undead photographer & Oxford don whose charm enchants her and her sisters. As Mr. Dodgson begins telling the sisters during a supervised boat trip a curious tale about Alice's adventures in Underland, that is, the land of the undead, secrets inadvertantly emerge from behind polite society's velvet curtains. Through chilling encounters with Mr. Dodgson, she confronts the horror of Victorian rules and the cruelty masked by civility, among both humans and the undead. What separates humanity from monstrosity when both hide their hunger? Alice must decide: will she follow the path laid before her, or carve her own through the darkness? Step into the shadows of Underland and lose yourself in a world where wonder and terror dance hand in hand ... For fans of Victorian horror stories, zombie apocalypse books with historical settings, gothic fantasy novels, alternate history fiction, and dark fairy tale retellings. Older teens and up; not for younger readers (violence & gore). Alice's Adventures in Underland is a duology: -The Queen of Stilled Hearts (covering the events behind Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)-The Knight of Shattered Dreams (covering the events behind Through the Looking-Glass)

Black Chaos comes again in 25 MORE frightful - and frightfully funny - tales of the zombie, from the wilds of 19th century Canada to the farthest edge of the galaxy, and from college dorms to Wal-Mart. You may think you know zombies, but not these Featuring work by: Terry Alexander, Bo Balder, Aislinn Batstone, Steven E. Belanger, Thomas Canfield, Angel Luis Col n, D. Jason Cooper, Jim Cort, James Dorr, J. Boone Dryden, Sean Ealy, Gary Ives, W. P. Johnson, Brenda Kezar, DeAnna Knippling, Wayne Laufert, Jason S. Ridler, Anna Sykora, Gabriel Valjan, Deborah Walker, Ian Welke, R. A. Williamson, Dawn Wilson, Joriah Wood, and Nu Yang.

One little girl. Buffalo-demons stampede out of the earth to steal one little half-blood girl, and everything changes. Aloysius's little brother Jerome goes missing with her--two inseparable kids whose friendship is damned from the beginning--as demons replace the newly dead. A priest with a tainted Bible. A brother with a taste for blood and demon flesh. A fool with a passion for the machinery of Hell. Only Aloysius and his brothers can see the transformation--and there's not a damned thing they can do about it. Then Jerome returns: he has found a way down into the demons' Hell, where they twist the little girl's tortured dreams into a paradise of their own, a place to escape the demons who, in turn, haunt them.