Alethea Kontis

The popular THINLY VEILED collection from the Castle of Horror continues with this anthology of horror stories in the world of Saturday morning pop culture, from the Smurfs to Soul Train-- but every one of these brands is "thinly veiled."

The popular THINLY VEILED collection from the Castle of Horror continues with this anthology of horror stories in the world of 80s pop culture-- from movies like ROBOCOP and THE KEEP to shows like THE FACTS OF LIFE and MORK AND MINDY-- but every one of these brands is "thinly veiled.

Here are 20 stories and poems that will transport you to the magical dangerous worlds you've always known should exist, but have never quite been able to find....

Clever and pithy children's classics turned upside-down, WINK is a true delight. Evelyn Skye, New York Times bestselling author of Damsel. Fifteen young adult contemporary fantasy and science fiction tales that wink at classic works of children's literature.

Space explorers Kat Savage and Blu Valentine land their ship on a planet in response to a distorted message from a damaged emergency beacon....

When Friday stumbles upon seven sleeping brothers in her sister Sunday's palace, she takes one look at Tristan and knows he's her future. But the brothers are cursed to be swans by day....

Rough-and-tumble Saturday Woodcutter thinks she's the only one of her sisters without any magic - until the day she accidentally conjures an ocean in the backyard.

Annaleigh Elizabeta Morales did not expect to die tonight. She did not expect to meet Death. She did not expect to become an angel. She certainly did not expect to screw it up so badly.

Imagine a universe where, on November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes's Gunpowder Plot was successful....

A toy giant and a clockwork unicorn star in this retelling of Aesop's fable "The Lion and the Mouse" in a steampunk fantasy setting....

Jack Brown is an unhappy painter whose glass is always half-empty....

Messenger is the deleted last chapter from Dearest....

Fey magic and animal magic: that troublemaking imp Trix Woodcutter has both, if not the ability to use them to their full potential....

Trix Woodcutter is the long prophesied boy who talks to animals. He's also a foundling prankster scamp who places his family under a sleeping spell so that he can run away from home....

Heather Hayden has everything a young witch could desire: beauty, money, popularity, and exceptionally strong magical powers. Too bad she’s also got a dysfunctional family that couldn’t care less about her and a Head Witch who’s watching her every move....

Audie Award Nominee, Best Teens Category, 2013 Sunday Woodcutter is the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter. Not only does that come with an enormous family, but the things she writes in her journal also have a tendency to come true. When Sunday meets a frog in the Enchanted Wood who asks...

Peter, Quinn, Romeo, and Sam are four (lame) shapeshifters (platypus, mosquito, piranha, sloth) who also happen to be best friends and members of a (terrible) garage band. But the local Battle of the Bands is happening on the full moon....

Max receives a piece of his mother's funerary jewelry and realizes that he now has the power to touch certain objects and relive their owner's last moments....

In a world where monsters and fairies roam the backyard, one gnome seeks to save his true love from an experiment gone terribly awry....

Like many paranormals of Greek descent, Kai Xanthopoulos will not know her true nature until her young powers fully manifest....