Interview: DeAnna Knippling on The Fold Magic Stories
DeAnna Knippling on the fold, Colorado’s Front Range, and writing kids who are a little bit magic—an author interview for the 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles.
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Interview: Inside Monster Road Trip — Mark Leslie, DeAnna Knippling & Jamie Ferguson
Amazing Monster Tales: Monster Road Trip packs ten monsters into cars, trains, and trouble—and we pulled three of its contributors aside to talk about the rides they wrote. Mark Leslie sends his Canadian werewolf across the country by train; DeAnna Knippling drops a 1957 zombie-plague comet on the Nevada desert; and Jamie Ferguson straps two…
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Interview: Jamie Ferguson & DeAnna Knippling on Monster Road Trip
Ten monsters hit the open road, and not one of them remembered to fill the gas tank. Amazing Monster Tales: Monster Road Trip—the second issue of the series—loads werewolves, a dragon who rides with his wings out to feel the wind, Medusa, the Norse dwarf Andvari, and a few creatures you’ve never met into the…
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Interview: DeAnna Knippling on An Outfit of Otherworlds
DeAnna Knippling on the Weird Western, the darkness at the heart of the American West, and a carnival barker running a con across time — in An Outfit of Otherworlds, part of the Escape from 2026 StoryBundle.
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Story Spotlight: “When You Can Walk Away But You Can’t Leave” by DeAnna Knippling
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…
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Interview: “When You Can Walk Away But You Can’t Leave” by DeAnna Knippling
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….
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Interview: DeAnna Knippling, author of “Estimated Value” in Stolen by the Fae
“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…
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Story spotlight: “Estimated Value” by DeAnna Knippling, in Stolen by the Fae
“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…
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Interview: DeAnna Knippling on “A Shrewdness of Swindlers”
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…
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Story spotlight: “Myrna and the Thirteen-Year Witch” by DeAnna Knippling
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…
