Shakespeare Unleashed: (Unleashed Series Book 2) - Softcover

Aquilone, James; Ochse, Weston; Doescher, Ian; Maberry, Jonathan; McGuire, Seanan; Lansdale, Joe R.; Lansdale, Kasey; Kiste, Gwendolyn; Waggoner, Tim; Fracassi, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1946346195 ISBN 13: 9781946346193

Publisher: Monstrous Books, 2023

Synopsis

SHAKESPEARE IN BLOOD!

From the blood of Macbeth and the ghosts of Hamlet, to the dark fantasy of The Tempest and the twisted love of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Unleashed reimagines the Bard’s greatest works as short horror stories…as well as horror sonnets.

With new stories by Joe R. Lansdale & Kasey Lansdale, Ian Doescher, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Lee Murray, Steve Rasnic Tem, Gemma Files, Tim Waggoner, John Palisano, Lisa Morton, Gene Flynn, Hailey Piper, Philip Fracassi, Gwendolyn Kiste, and others.

Dark sonnets by Linda D. Addison, Alessandro Manzetti, Jessica McHugh, Sara Tantlinger, Stephanie M. Wytovich, and Lucy A. Snyder, among others.

And an introduction by Weston Ochse and illustrations by J.K. Woodward.

Proudly represented by both Monstrous Books and Crystal Lake Publishing.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Preface James Aquilone

• Introduction Weston Ochse

STORIES (25)

• “Thirteenth Night, or What You Kill” Ian Doescher

• “A Soliloquy of Tongues” Hailey Piper

• “Ides” Gwendolyn Kiste

• “The Beggars’ Shadows” Tim Waggoner

• “When I Waked I Cried to Dream Again” Jonathan Maberry

• “Showtime” Lee Murray

• “The Votress’s Daughter” Seanan McGuire

• “A Pound of Flesh” John Palisano

• “Fortune” Philip Fracassi

• “To Keep a Corner in the Thing I Love” Geneve Flynn

• “Kingbreaker” Simon Bestwick

• “The Body, The Blood, The Woods, The Stage” Lisa Morton

• “The Hollow Crown” Gemma Files

• “X” Steve Rasnic Tem

• “The Montague Look” Epiphany Ferrell

• “A World of Kisses for His Pain” James Chambers

• “A Timeless Tragedy” JG Faherty

• “Vile Jelly” Dan Coxon

• “Nothing Like the Sun: Rosaline’s Satisfaction” Donna J. W. Munro

• “All Hallowed Tides Break Upon These Shores” Marisca Pichette

• “Scourge of Rome” Amanda Dier

• “Brothers in Arms” Kenneth W. Cain

• “The Hungry Wives of Windsor” Zachary Rosenberg

• “Something Is Rotten” Jo Kaplan

• “The Case of the Bitter Witch” Joe R. Lansdale and Kasey Lansdale

SONNETS (17)

• “The Third Murderer” Jessica McHugh

• “Juliet” Alessandro Manzetti

• “Not From My Heart Do I Your Judgement Pluck” Linda D. Addison

• “A Note From Your Secret Admirer” Lucy A. Snyder

• “The Witch Stained Red” Stephanie M. Wytovich

• “The Final Silence” Sara Tantlinger

• “The Woods Are Dark” Vince A. Liaguno

• “I Demand the City of Flesh” Maxwell I. Gold

• “Casca’s Lament” Michael Nethercott

• “A Lover’s Pinch” Ahlissa Eichhorn

• “Lavinia’s Revenge” Megan Kiekel Anderson

• “Ophelia After Her Distress” Mary Berman

• “Sonnet Fifty-Fleur” Lindy Ryan

• “No Rest Nor Relief For You With Me Dead” Rebecca Cuthbert

• “Watch” L. Marie Wood

• “Usurping Monster” Stephanie Ellis

• “Unrepentant” Cindy O’Quinn

About this title

About the Author

James Aquilone is the owner of Monstrous Books, writer of the Dead Jack: Zombie Detective series, and editor of the anthologies Classic Monsters Unleashed, Dead Detectives Society, and the 50th anniversary Kolchak: The Night Stalker graphic novel. He’ s won the Bram Stoker Award and two Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards.

Edition details

• Publisher: Monstrous Books
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1946346195
• ISBN 13: 9781946346193
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 380