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Grimm After Midnight: Tales That Should Not Be

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Beneath the soft glow of bedtime stories and the sugar-coated lies of "happily ever after," something festers. The woods are darker than remembered, the witches hungrier, the monsters no longer hiding beneath beds—but sitting at the dinner table, wearing familiar faces. "Grimm After Midnight" is a twisted anthology of grotesque, blood-soaked retellings of classic fairy tales, reimagined as psychological and body horror nightmares. Each standalone story drags a familiar tale into the depths of madness, gore, and eldritch terror—where the candy house is built on bones, the Big Bad Wolf is something older than the moon, and no child escapes unscarred. Perfect for readers who crave fear laced with folklore and aren't afraid to peer into the shadows behind the storybook page.
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