Recs if you like Sleeping Beauties...

forced into unending sleep or perilous insomnia, repeating tedious daily routines until your body rots, watching as your skin starts to glow or your hands sprout scales - these novels feature illnesses that are far from typical

if you enjoyed / find yourself enjoying my strange plagues quest, you’ll find even more suggestions for further reading within the niche here!!!

No Hans Christian Andersen on this list. Retellings based on...Twelve Dancing Princesses, Cinderella, The Goose Girl, Snow White, Snow White + Rose Red, Rapunzel, Hansel + Gretel, Rumplestiltskin, Bluebeard, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, King Thrushbeard, The Pied Piper, The Six Swans, The Brave Little Tailor, Bearskin, Puss in Boots, Allerleirauh, The Wolf + the Fox, The Pink, Maid Maleen, Brother + Sister, The Golden Goose, The Six Swans, etc. As always… no Gaiman

Includes novels, novellas/short story collections, and non-fiction

Stephen King's bibliography, in publishing order. Includes novels, collections, and nonfiction.

Magic? Injury? Stasis? Curse? Sleeping Beauty theme? When a character needs a hand back to consciousness.

Short horror is very effective and there are so many collections to explore.

This is a list of all Stephen King novels and novellas in publication order (which I've heard multiple people say is the best way to read through all of King's work). This list also includes books written under his pen name of Richard Bockman.

Every book/story that Stephen King has published

Oh no! All the men turned into zombies! Or all the women fell into an eternal slumber! Or other similar sex & gender-based afflictions!

These stories range from feminist to sexist and from trans-inclusive to TERFy; reader beware. Inclusion on the list is not an endorsement.

books that range from 2015-2022 and a sprinkle of ? purchase dates lmfao. i can at least say 70% of this list is inherited books

*Excluding The Dark Tower