Welcome back to ’Warped Week, a weekly recap of what we’ve been up to at ’Warp Central recently. If you missed anything, now’s the perfect time to catch up!
On Monday we gave a refresher on the titles in our Illustrated Classics and new SWC Horror Bites lines. This year we’ve added the 1932 novelization of the original King Kong to the former list, and launched the latter with the feminist horror tale White Fell—The Werewolf.
For Tuesday, we reminded librarians of our fine range of e-book titles available for their digital libraries, including Richard C. White’s most recent release, the short-story fantasy collection For a Few Gold Pieces More. One of The ’Warp’s digital distributors, Smashwords, makes our titles available to libraries through Baker & Taylor Axis360 and OverDrive, as well as around the world through Odilo, Gardners Books, and, most recently, Bibliotheca CloudLibrary.
Friday saw the debut of Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson (Hermione of the Harry Potter films) and Dan Stevens (star of FX’s Legion), and for fans of fairy tales we heartily recommended our Illustrated Classic Snow White. The SWC edition of this fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm features incredible full-color illustrations first published in 1883.
Also on Friday, to mark the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day we directed readers toward the Pandora Zwieback blog and its quick overview of the Leprechaun horror movie franchise that starred Warwick Davis (Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, the Harry Potter films) as an evil Irish sprite who gleefully—and gruesomely—murders anyone foolish enough to steal his pot of gold.
Lastly, in yesterday’s installment of Simian Saturdays, we examined Kong: Skull Island, Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ exciting reboot of the King Kong franchise, now set firmly in the shared “MonsterVerse” established in the studios’ Godzilla reboot from 2014. It also sets the stage for the already announced crossover movie for 2020, Godzilla vs. Kong, which will also be set up by 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
And that’s the week. What’s coming next? You’ll have to keep checking this blog during the days ahead—or join us on Sunday for the next installment of ’Warped Week. See you then!
