THE HORROR ARCHIVES · Vol. 003Twisted FairytalesOnce upon a time, mercy died.

Dark folklore and grotesque fantasy: ten fairy-tale kingdoms of crowns, spells, talking things and ancient curses, retold as bloody fairy-tale horror for you to color.

Planned

Planned. No edition, price or release date is set.

Front cover of THE HORROR ARCHIVES Vol. 003, Twisted Fairytales: a pale queen in a crown of thorns holds an ornate hand mirror showing a ghostly face, with a wolf, a poisoned apple and a dark castle among thorny branches behind her. Purple title lettering.

The third volume of THE HORROR ARCHIVES takes the furniture of fairy tales (kingdoms, enchantments, cursed courts, wishes with a price) and builds ten original worlds from it, with six scenes per world. No borrowed characters, no retold classics.

Twisted Fairytales is planned, not released. Its release details, format and price are not set yet.

The books contain gothic, creature, body and splatter horror imagery. They are not made for children.

Series
THE HORROR ARCHIVES
Volume
003
Status
Planned
Planned contents
10 worlds, 6 motifs each (60 motifs)

Covers

Front cover of THE HORROR ARCHIVES Vol. 003, Twisted Fairytales: a pale queen in a crown of thorns holds an ornate hand mirror showing a ghostly face, with a wolf, a poisoned apple and a dark castle among thorny branches behind her. Purple title lettering.
Front cover
Back cover of Vol. 003, Twisted Fairytales. Purple dripping headline: "The story never ended the way you remember." Text: "The path through the forest has changed. Follow the scattered pages into kingdoms where every gift demands something in return." Taglines: wicked fables, cursed kingdoms, broken promises. Artwork: an open storybook wrapped in thorns before a ruined castle under the moon, with a jewelled crown and a dripping poisoned apple on a tree stump.
Back cover

Contents

Working contents from the story bible. Titles and order may change before release.

  1. The Thorn-Tithe Kingdom

    Subjects pay their teeth to a living crown of thorns; the hedges wear bone faces and eat whoever refuses

  2. The Orchard of Borrowed Seasons

    Fruit full of stolen years ages its pickers in an instant while misshapen things grow in the trunks

  3. The Kingdom of Crooked Bells

    Every crooked bell is tied to someone’s insides; each toll twists bodies into grotesque courtiers

  4. The Glassweather Duchy

    A duchess keeps sun, storm and winter under glass; when it breaks, razor rain and living frost fall

  5. The Feast of Forgotten Kings

    Dead monarchs at an endless table grow with every course until they devour their court

  6. The Golden Tongue Bazaar

    A night market trading voices, memories and body parts for wishes, run by mouths that speak other people’s promises

  7. The Candlelight Dominion

    A sunless realm stores daylight in candles; when a flame dies, your own shadow comes for you

  8. The Velvet Sleep Fields

    Purple sleep flowers hold a whole people dreaming while their nightmares grow flesh and feed

  9. The Sugarbone Province

    Candy palaces and spun-sugar forests over buried bones, and hungry things breaking out of the walls

  10. The Kingdom of Unwritten Endings

    Stories that never finish trap their people in endless transformations as the kingdom itself becomes a monster

Editions

There is nothing to buy yet. Digital, print and any other editions will be listed here with format, price and where you pay, once each one is real.

Sample pages will be shown here once they are approved for publication.