In “When You Can Walk Away But You Can’t Leave,” DeAnna Knippling traps us inside a haunted escape room—where the real horror isn’t just the tech or the spirits, but the systems that refuse to let anyone go. Sharon manages a haunted escape room in suburban Denver—one she designed herself, including the server room she…
Running a haunted escape room sounds like fun—until the ghosts aren’t just part of the game, and walking away isn’t as easy as it should be. In “When You Can Walk Away But You Can’t Leave,” DeAnna Knippling twists hauntpunk atmosphere with sharp emotional undercurrents, building a story where tech, trauma, and supernatural entrapment collide….
“Estimated Value,” by DeAnna Knippling, appears in Stolen by the Fae, the 6th volume in the anthology series A Procession of Faeries. The Interview Why do you think the mythology of the changeling, in which the Fae steal a human and replace it with one of their own kind, is so intriguing to people? I…
“Estimated Value,” by DeAnna Knippling, appears in Stolen by the Fae, the 6th volume in the anthology series A Procession of Faeries. Excerpt “You said something last night after we went to sleep,” he said. “I did not!” “You talk in your sleep,” he pointed out. “I do not!” “You said, and you’re gonna want…
Dames, detectives, and deception…magic meets the decadence of the Roaring Twenties in ten tales of glitter and jazz. The year is 1929. It’s two months after the financial collapse on Wall Street, and the world is bating its breath, unsure of what will happen next. Is it the end of an era? At the Honeybee’s…
A wealthy actress in Hollywood in the 1920s takes on a pair of immigrant faeries as indentured servants in DeAnna Knippling’s “Myrna and the Thirteen-Year Witch,” but she didn’t realize just how high the cost would be to keep them safe. ~ ~ ~ “Myrna and the Thirteen-Year Witch” appears in The Golden Door, a…
The Golden Door is a collection of stories showing the impact on people when they’re treated as “the other,” whether they’re immigrants to a country, a group of targeted within their own country, or something else besides. The title refers to Emma Lazarus’s welcoming words inscribed on the plaque on Statue of Liberty, “I lift…
Things often take an unexpected turn in DeAnna Knippling’s stories, and One Dark Summer Night is no exception. In this book she’s created a dark, intriguing world with fairies who are more complex than they first appear. One Dark Summer Night is available for a limited time in The Realm of Faerie bundle. Enter the…
The overarching story from One Dark Summer Night is a fairly typical one for the fae: the fae have been interfering with the mortals again, and have left behind them a changeling—or possibly more than one. The main twist in the tale comes when several human scientists at an isolated university in the Midwest decide…
Midwinter Fae, the second volume in the anthology series A Procession of Faeries, brings you nineteen tales of magic, beauty, wonder…and sometimes danger, as the Fae can be unpredictable, and follow their own rules. Midwinter Fae is available for a limited time in The Realm of Faerie bundle. Enter the Realm of Faerie, a world…
