Bøger af Deanna Knippling

"What everyone want to see," the crow said, "is someone getting eaten. Preferably someone who deserves it."Out in the middle of nowhere in the Great Plains of the United States, it doesn't matter where you are, really, or even what year it is. All that matters is whether you have enough to eat before the winter sets in.Whether your family loves you or shuns you, and whether or not you have a way to keep from going mad, those things don't matter so much.The girl has little else but stories. But the main problem is that her mother is going mad, mad in a way that wrecks the lives and sanity of everyone around her, and may even warp reality itself. The house creaks and groans and twists, as the corruption consumes everyone-almost everyone-within.Fortunately, the crows find the girl outside and alone. And they love stories.The monsters are coming. At least the little girl has never been very heavy...Seventeen murderous, ravenous tales told by the crows, to help heal a girl without food, without love, and now without home. Unless her mother comes to reclaim her...

★★★★★ "Fast paced fun!" - Reader review___Brandeis Clark has grown bored with spaceflight academy, so when the government offers her an assignment hunting interstellar pirates, she jumps at the chance.But Brandy's home planet, Thurman, has never had a military and doesn't know how to run one. Her training officer does little beyond yell and belittle.Her best friend has a mouse's timidity, not good in a combat pilot.To top it off, one combat engineer keeps distracting Brandy with his penetrating questions and wry humor. A distraction she does not need!The newly minted defense force sends Brandy and the rest of the crew out in a refitted sub-light ship to go on a years-long science mission in hopes these mysterious pirates will attack.Brandy is interstellar bait...Order your copy of Prodigy's Loss, and join the galactic action now!

At sunrise and sunset, the sky burns like it's on fire and the old broken bridge over the railroad tracks on the far side of town stretches across the universes. At the end of the bridge are the fairies...Della Rae is only in this podunk Midwestern university town for the full-ride biology scholarship she's getting. In a year or two, she's going to Oxford as an exchange student, she knows it. Her eventual goal: to cure cancer. Only life doesn't go like that. The way you planned.Something's going on in the basement of the science building, something that's tied up every single professor and sends the summer work-study students running. Rumors are going around that the professors are performing a vivisection. And nobody wants to see that.But it's probably not going to be performed on the lab rats. Because this town has always had something weird going on. Something that involves Della Rae's best friend, Merc, and a few other kids in town, all with the same face...

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.

Bill Trout didn't set out to get involved with aliens. He just wanted to run his damned brewery and heal up from being abandoned by his ex-wife. But that ain't the way things worked out, and now he has some bodies to bury, an alien kid who's wanted for murder-mass murder-to hide, and a planet to save. But Bill won't go down easy. Fortunately, the aliens, who are a blue ooze that takes over your body and are real hard to kill, have no tolerance for alcohol. So now Bill has a new beer on tap: Alien Blue. He just has to be careful who he serves it to.

REVENGE IS BEST SERVED FOR DESSERT. With her first cooking class (as a teacher!!!) coming up, her catering business starting to take off, and her heart starting to recover from her divorce, Sam Genoise wants nothing more than an easy night of blogging at her playful foodie website, www.FoodSlutOnline.com. Then a Horrible Internet Troll does the unthinkable: he threatens her soufflés. Sam blows it off as a prank... …but two batches of soufflés fall. During her cooking class. After she just tried to explain to her students that soufflés are easy. Sam Genoise's soufflés don't fall. Ever. Now Sam's out for revenge, investigating ex-husbands, ex-chefs, so-called friends, and movie-star foodies while a serial dessert killer slaughters her best work. Will Sam be next? An offbeat cooking cozy, first in the Sweet Granadilla series, for foodies with an adventurous palate.

Tick. Tock. Time is running out for Wonderland.When Alice Liddell got married and became Alice Hargreaves, she received one last gift from the man who immortalized her in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass-a watercolor painting. To anyone else, it's just a normal painting of Oxford.But to Alice, it's a portal to another world. One that she doesn't dare go through anymore-as a wife, a mother, and a well-brought-up upper-class English lady. On the other side of the portal, another, younger Alice is being dragged into the beginning of a war. A war between the Wonderlanders that we know-and the ones on the opposite side, clockwork creations that used to maintain the clocks that drove Wonderland but have now forced their counterparts to slave from dusk until dawn. A cruel treaty constrains everyone from the humblest rabbit to the highest queen.And now the fragile peace between the Wonderlanders is coming to an end: the great clock that runs Wonderland is almost unwound, despite the best efforts of both sides...and just to make things worse, a group of traitors has been working toward the Great Unwinding, sabotaging all efforts of salvation.Only the grown-up Alice's curiosity can save them now...

The real story behind Through the Looking-Glass...It was a Britain that had been overrun by a plague of zombies.A Britain that had fought the zombies, not quite won, and yet declared victory.The rabid dead had been mercifully put down. The less virulently infected were treated with a sort of fungal "tea" that kept their urges to eat their fellow men at bay. With a bit of effort and discipline, one of the Infected could be right as rain.Oxford don and reluctant member of the undead Charles Dodgson has been banished from the Liddell household at the behest of Dean Henry Liddell's wife, and forbidden the presence of her daughters. Dark accusations against Dodgson abound, fostered by their mother.But years have passed, the girls have grown, and Mrs. Dodgson orders the girls to have their photographs taken-to display themselves on the marriage market-by one of the premier photographers of the time.None other than Charles Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll.But Alice does not wish to make things up with her old mentor; she does not wish to be put on the marriage market. What she wishes to is marry her childhood friend, Prince Leopold. But the Queen does not approve.All, however, may be moot, as the plague of the Infected once again rises, this time in a more virulent form, and carries away everything before it, like a flood. A tale of gaslamps, dark fantasy, and gothic horror delights.Part 2 of Alice's Adventures in Underland. Part 1 is Alice's Adventures in Underland: The Queen of Stilled Hearts.

The real story behind Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...It was a Britain that had been overrun by a plague of zombies.A Britain that had fought the zombies, not quite won, and yet declared victory.The rabid dead had been mercifully put down. The less virulently infected were treated with a sort of fungal "tea" that kept their urges to eat their fellow men at bay. With a bit of effort and discipline, one of the Infected could be right as rain.Oxford Don Charles Dodgson is one of the Infected dead, but an altogether charming fellow nonetheless. A fabulous mathematician, and a follower of the new "fad" of photography. Fond of children. Little girls especially. But not fond of eating them.Most of the time. The dean of Christchurch College, Henry Liddell, has three willful young daughters, quite bright, wonderful at games: Lorina, Alice, and Edith. With a little supervision, he can certainly keep three of such charming girls entertained-With a tale of the place the Infected dead come from. Underland.A tale of gaslamps, dark fantasy, and gothic horror delights.Part 1 of Alice's Adventures in Underland. Part 2 is Alice's Adventures in Underland: The Knight of Shattered Dreams.

Venture way, way out west in this collection of time-traveling, demon-possessing, horse-thieving, people-eating tales of the American frontier! Featuring SF and horror fiction from Terry Alexander, Cecelia Chapman, Harri B. Cradoc, Milo James Fowler, Joshua Gage, Walter Giersbach, DeAnna Knippling, Gerri Leen, Mike Loniewski, Paul Lorello, John Medaille, John F.D. Taff, and Joriah Wood!

The real story behind Through the Looking-Glass...It was a Britain that had been overrun by a plague of zombies.A Britain that had fought the zombies, not quite won, and yet declared victory.The rabid dead had been mercifully put down. The less virulently infected were treated with a sort of fungal "tea" that kept their urges to eat their fellow men at bay. With a bit of effort and discipline, one of the Infected could be right as rain.Oxford don and reluctant member of the undead Charles Dodgson has been banished from the Liddell household at the behest of Dean Henry Liddell''s wife, and forbidden the presence of her daughters. Dark accusations against Dodgson abound, fostered by their mother.But years have passed, the girls have grown, and Mrs. Dodgson orders the girls to have their photographs taken-to display themselves on the marriage market-by one of the premier photographers of the time.None other than Charles Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll.But Alice does not wish to make things up with her old mentor; she does not wish to be put on the marriage market. What she wishes to is marry her childhood friend, Prince Leopold. But the Queen does not approve.All, however, may be moot, as the plague of the Infected once again rises, this time in a more virulent form, and carries away everything before it, like a flood. A tale of gaslamps, dark fantasy, and gothic horror delights.Part 2 of Alice''s Adventures in Underland. Part 1 is Alice''s Adventures in Underland: The Queen of Stilled Hearts.

The real story behind Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland...It was a Britain that had been overrun by a plague of zombies.A Britain that had fought the zombies, not quite won, and yet declared victory.The rabid dead had been mercifully put down. The less virulently infected were treated with a sort of fungal "tea" that kept their urges to eat their fellow men at bay. With a bit of effort and discipline, one of the Infected could be right as rain.Oxford Don Charles Dodgson is one of the Infected dead, but an altogether charming fellow nonetheless. A fabulous mathematician, and a follower of the new "fad" of photography. Fond of children. Little girls especially. But not fond of eating them.Most of the time. The dean of Christchurch College, Henry Liddell, has three willful young daughters, quite bright, wonderful at games: Lorina, Alice, and Edith. With a little supervision, he can certainly keep three of such charming girls entertained-With a tale of the place the Infected dead come from. Underland.A tale of gaslamps, dark fantasy, and gothic horror delights.Part 1 of Alice''s Adventures in Underland. Part 2 is Alice''s Adventures in Underland: The Knight of Shattered Dreams.

Everyone fears death, the great unwinding...Ticking clocks echo through an enormous English country house. A watercolor over the mantle ripples. A woman sleepwalks, pulled by moonlight and dreams, until she stands under the painting, the last gift she was given by author Lewis Carroll, on the eve of her wedding.Her name is Alice. And on the other side of the painting, Wonderland is calling to her.One last time.Tick...tock...tick...In Wonderland, one only works in one's sleep.All proper Wonderlandians spend all night, every night, hard at work, winding the great clock of Wonderland - the Master Chronometer - of which all other Wonderlandians are but synchronized slave clocks.At night, one understands that one is made of clockwork, although, of course, one pretends otherwise when one is awake. To do otherwise would make the current madness of the daylit Wonderlandians look like stark sanity.Besides, it's only polite.