Alethea Kontis: 34 books

Never reap a harvest sown with blood. 150 years ago, in Haven, Kansas, a witch was burned at the stake. This October, in Haven, Kansas, a boy plays a prank on his big sister. Suddenly, crows fill the skies, a female scarecrow plagues the town, and teenagers are dying left and right. Amidst...

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. Fans of Arilland will enjoy this dark, bloodstained tale of a slightly misguided angel with her heart in the right...

Things that never were, things that might be, and things that may yet come to pass… A monster under the bed. A Rock God in deep space. A haunted castle in post-war Germany. A dark secret in Harlan County, Kentucky. The birth of an angel and a demon. A garage band composed of misfit teen weres....

Imagine a universe where, on November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes's Gunpowder Plot was successful. The explosion resulted in a schism that split the British Prime Universe into two more planes of existence: one that went forwards in time (clockwise), and one that went backwards (counterclockwise, or widdershins)....

Jack Brown is an unhappy painter whose glass is always half-empty. He lives on the top floor of an apartment complex next to a perky, optimistic witch named Cassie and her troublesome cat. This Halloween, beneath a full moon, Jack stumbles onto a magic spell that brings him far more than he bargained...

Space explorers Kat Savage and Blu Valentine land their ship on a planet in response to a distorted message from a damaged emergency beacon. In their quest to find the source of the beacon, they find a lush world filled with beautiful plants and various insect life, but no inhabitants. And then they...

A young woman in fantasy Victorian London looks forward to showing off her magical etching skills to the head of the Society of Natural Scientists. This e-book includes the original short story as well as "The Princess with Butterfly Wings," an essay about the origins of the idea for this tale.

Instead of the world ending in 2012, the majorityof the population turned into were-beings of their totem animal. 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...

On the way to her wedding, brave and clever Princess Sabine falls into a Glass Mountain, where she is trapped with a crotchety, smelly man she calls “Old Rinkrank.” The two form a unique, unlikely friendship while working to escape. Alethea Kontis’s take on this classic Grimms’ fairy tale is a dark, yet optimistic novelette of magic, mystery, and love.

Pregnant and troubled, Ennica Jamison follows a schoolyard legend and climbs to the top of Black Mountain to seek help from the witch who lives there. This e-book includes the original short story as well as "Discovering Harlan," an essay about the origins of the idea for this tale. (ages 13 & up)

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.

2015 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award Winner In the fairy tale realm of Arilland, stories are told at children's bedsides--and not the stories you think you know. Tales of Arilland is a collection of fairy tales, presented in the magical topsy-turvy way that only Alethea Kontis can...

* Special release-week pricing!* From the bestselling authors of the award-winning Once Upon Anthologies, the next fabulous volume is here! Revisit your favorite faerie tales, masterfully retold in science fiction settings with delightful, and sometimes chilling, twists. What if the Twelve Dancing...

Fifteen brand new fairytale twists from bestselling and award-winning authors. With inspirations ranging from The Ugly Duckling to Snow White, and everything in between (including trips to Camelot and Oz), these fabulous tales are full of adventure, romance, and a touch of magic. WEST OF THE...