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Readers Beware of these twisted literary pieces!

Everyone knows the classics such as Peter Pan, Huckleberry Finn, and The Wizard of Oz. Have you ever thought about what would happen in those stories if they were written just a little differently... More wickedly...

What if Tinkerbell defended her love for Peter Pan, at any costs including her soul?

What if Huck’s adventure took him down a more dangerous side of the river?

What if The Wizard of Oz was nothing more than a surreal nightmare?

The authors within this tome have brought your classic and timeless books back to life with a demonic twist only found in the Demonic Anthology collection. Expect a very different impression of the stories everyone grew up to love, written in such a way they just might be changed in unforgettable ways.

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Publié par	4 Horsemen Publications, Inc.
Date de parution	30 juin 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781644506431
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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Table o f Contents
1. Dedication
2. Acknow ledgements
3. Read ers Beware
4. The Rip Van Wink le Paradox
Rip Van Winkle
Robert P. Ottone
5. Secrets of the Deep: Beowul f Revealed
Beowulf
J M Paquette
6. “The H and-Print”
The Birth-Mark
Mart a Špoljar
7. Careful, Wishes Are Dangerous
Pus s in Boots
K Walker
8. Eme rald Views
Wi zard of Oz
K im Plasket
9. Huck an d The Momo
Huckle berry Finn
Josh Pritchett
10. Lips as Re d as Blood
Snow White
Jami e Zaccaria
11. The Win e-Dark Sea
T he Odyssey
By Lar ry Griffin
12. Mad Mad Ca ptain Ahab
Moby Dick
Joh n Di Donna
13. Tin k’s Choice
Peter Pan
E rika Lance
14. Faust
Faust
Carl ton Herzog
15. Brom Bones R ides Again
Legend of Sle epy Hollow
Va lerie Puri
16. Remem ber Lenore
The Raven
Jessi ca Chaleff
17. “A Christmas Reckoning”
A Chris tmas Carol
M ike L Lane
18. Alice Falls Into Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
Ro ss Ellison

Demonic Anthology Volume IV
A Dark Humor Short Story Collection
demonic
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Once Upon a Debacle

Demonic Anthology Volume IV
A Dark Humor Short Story Collection
demonic
ClassicS
Once Upon a Debacle
Includes Stories By:
| Carlton Herzog | Erika Lance | Jamie Zaccaria | Jessica Chaleff |
| JM Paquette | John Di Donna | Josh Pritchett |
| K Walker | Kim Plasket | Larry Griffin | Marta Špoljar |
| Mike L Lane | Robert P. Ottone | Ross Ellison | Valerie Puri |

Demonic Classics
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Dedication
T o all those reaching to get your work out into the world! The author’s journey is a long and arduous path, my friends. Celebrate the small victories and always keep climbing the mountain. We’re no strangers to love, you know the rules and so do I. A full commitment’s what I’m thinking of, you wouldn’t get this from any other guy., I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling, Gotta make you understand... Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and d esert you!

Ackno wledgments
A s always, this anthology is a team effort. My part in this is small compared to the submission reviewers, the previewers, the authors who bravely submit to us, and the readers who just enjoy a simple, goofy and quirky read on ce a year.
Thank you to...
Karen for your tenacity!
Ryan for you r insight!
Kim for your expertise in horror!
Erika for keeping m e on task!
And...
Authors for dealing with a 2020 dumpster fire and still managed to submit and be patient as I ran late in getting rep lies back!

Read ers Beware
E veryone knows the classics such as Peter Pan, Huckleberry Finn, and The Wizard of Oz. Have you ever thought about what would happen in those stories if they were written just a little differently... More w ickedly...
What if Tinkerbell defended her love for Peter Pan, at any costs including her soul?
What if Huck’s adventure took him down a more dangerous side of the river?
What if The Wizard of Oz was nothing more than a surreal nightmare?
The authors within this tome have brought your classic and timeless books back to life with a demonic twist only found in the Demonic Anthology collection. Expect a very different impression of the stories everyone grew up to love, written in such a way they just might be changed in unforgett able ways.

The Rip Van Wink le Paradox
Rip Van Winkle
Robert P. Ottone
“Y es, I heard you,” Rip said, pressing the receiver of the public telephone to his ear in the crowded bar. Truth be told, he couldn’t hear the person on the other end, his wife, and wasn’t particularly concerned about it. He imagined she was demanding he be home soon, or to pick up a chicken from the corner market or asking him for a separation, which was what he secretly prayed for every night before bed, after tucking in their terror of a five year old daughter, Audrey.”Give a kiss to the Little Terror for me, love bug,” he shouted into the phone. That’s what Rip liked to call Audrey, his “littl e terror.”
“Darling, it’s been a banner day for the boys at the firm, and we’re just having a quick cocktail to celebrate. Who knew September in the year of our Lord nineteen-twenty-nine would be such a windfal l for us?”
He blew a kiss into the phone, and promptly hung up. He thought he heard his wife beginning to shout at him, and decided it best to apologize later than discuss anything further. It usually wa s, anyway.
Rip walked back to the bar, rejoining the boys from the office, and resumed downing his French 75, his preferred cocktail of choice. Since his company had moved upstate, Rip found himself enjoying the mountain air, spending time with the boys at the only bar in town, Crayon’s, and drinking himself to oblivion nearly every night. There wasn’t much else to do unless one was the hunting sort, which Rip, most certainly , was not.
“Gentlemen, to industry!” Rip shouted, as he and his finance-cronies downed th eir swill.
As Rip eyed Sophie, the bar’s resident waitress on the far side of the room, he realized that perhaps he was a kind of hunter after all. She was his type, or, at least his type before he got married, with dark hair, pale skin and pouty lips painted a slick red. He waited until she was done placing the table’s order down and turned back toward the bar before he toasted her. She smiled and shook her head. Rip had been in every night that week and found an opportunity to flirt with the young lady, who rejected him each time on the grounds of him being married. That didn’t stop him from some innocent flirtatio n, though.
“My darling, when will you give me the time of day?” Rip asked as Sophie returned to the bar, placing her tray down.
“Rip, it is a quarter past ten at night,” she said, pointing to the clock on the wall.
“Sophie, angelic vision of my night’s dreams, that’s not the kind of time I’m talking about, you delicious bear-cat” he said, leaning over to her.”You’re drunk, Rip, and I must say, the gin does your breath no favors,” she said, recoiling.
Rip furrowed his brow and checked his breath. “Apologies my love, take thy beak from out my heart.”
“Are you quoting Shakespeare now? That’s a new low, even for you, Mr. Winkle,” with that, a new order of drinks appeared on her tray and Sophie was off, into the crowd, to make another liquid delivery.
“It’s Poe,” Rip said softly. He turned, drunk and exhausted, and placed some money on the bar. “Gentlemen, I good you bid evening.”

Outside, Rip stumbled down the block, making his way toward the hills. He wasn’t far from home. In fact, he imagined that if his wife wanted to, she could easily storm into the bar in her night clothes and drag him out by his ear. She never did, though. He chalked that up to her watching over Audrey. The tree-lined streets of the town nestled at the base of the Catskills was picturesque, albeit, boring. Rip understood that he would never feel truly at home in the area, and often desired a return to the hustle and bustle of city life. But his job was here. And his family, too. So he was resigned to spend his days making trades on the market, flirting with waitresses, and spending as little time as humanly possible with his wife and daughter.
He found himself quickly confused in his inebriated state and wandered, blankly, off the road and into the nearby foothills. The town was nestled at the foot of the mountains, however; the town itself was little more than a few stores and a slew of large, beautiful homes. A company town in many ways, but a company town nonetheless. When Rip and his family arrived in town, he worried that the area was like an old western boomtown, where, as soon as the fun of making money wore off (mostly due to the money running out), the town itself would vanish and the enormous homes the company boys all built would be left to rot or be reclaimed by nature.
Rip stumbled into a large outcropping of trees, and looked around, confused as to how he ended up there. The last thing he remembered, he was on the streets in town, stumbling away from Crayon’s, and making his way home. Now, suddenly, he was in nature, the lights of the town visible beyond the branches and thicket of trees a round him.
Feeling the effects of the gin and champagne coursing through his system, Rip stopped under one of the large trees and leaned against