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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2004
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Disney Villains

1 - Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen (Aug-2009)
2 - The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince (Jul-2014)
3 - Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch (Aug-2016)
4 - Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy (Oct-2017)
5 - Mother Knows Best: A Tale of the Old Witch (Aug-2018)
6 - The Odd Sisters (Jul-2019)
7 - Evil Thing (Jul-2020)
8 - Cold Hearted (Jul-2021)
9 - Never Never (Jul-2022)
10 - Fire and Fate (Jul-2023)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast

The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince (Jul-2014)

Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen (Aug-2009)

Book List in Order: 28 titles



    • This haunting first collection of Annabelle's memories are filled with frightening stories and dark fairy tales about her various owners . Featuring the first 6 issues, as well as some other spookirific surprises, including an introduction b...




    • Nightmares and Fairy Tales is a continuing series filled with dark fairy tales and horror stories, all narrated by Annabelle, a disturbingly creepy-cute little doll. Each person who possesses Annabelle falls into horrible circumstances, and ...



    • GloomCookie features an ensemble cast of cursed beauties, living wax statues, bad goth poets, malevolent gargoyles, disturbed werewolves, and a boy struggling to come to terms with his enormous power. The Carnival Macabre goes to war against...



    • Wrapping up the long-running Gloom Cookie series, The Final Curtain brings us to a brief resting point for all of the characters as the goth soap opera brings everything to a boil, with plots, twists and turns in the relationships and the st...



    • This tale belongs to the dead and the house they dwell in. Madame Lalaurie inflicted unspeakable acts upon her slaves at 1140 Rue Royale, and now their tortured souls are seeking revenge on the house's new occupants: an elderly woman named V...



    • Nightmares & Fairy Tales returns to the book's manga-inspired roots with two new retellings of classic horror stories and fairy tales. This issue features two stories inspired by Sleeping Beauty and H.P. Lovecraft's Shadow over Innsmouth.


  • Why exactly is the wicked Queen so nasty, particularly to Snow White? Perhaps it has something to do with the creepy-looking man in the magic mirror who's not just some random spooky visage......



  • So you’re a zombie. What now? Slow down -- and flesh out the life of the mindless with this essential guide for the newly undead. The vacant stare, the shambling gait, the sense that you’re falling apart -- adjusting to "life" as a zombie ...






  • Celebrate your inner beast --and harness that newfound animal magnetism -- with this essential guide to the lycanthropic lifestyle. Are you subject to savage moods, extreme and unexplained buffness, and cravings for meat on the rare side? Do you...



  • Werewolves remain one of the hottest undead creatures, with books, movies, videogames, and TV shows featuring the hairy shapeshifters. This book speaks to the teenage lycanthrope, or the would-be werewolf hunter, with tongue firmly in cheek, offer...



  • Zombies are hot. With movies, TV shows, graphic novels and, most importantly for this demographic, new video games coming out every year, the undead are everywhere kids are. And this book is gory enough to keep them interested, and funny enough that ...



  • A cursed prince sits alone in a secluded castle. Few have seen him, but those who claim they have say his hair is wild and nails are sharp--like a beast's! But how did this prince, once jovial and beloved by the people, come to be a reclusive and bit...



  • The tale of the sea king's daughter Ariel is a beloved one of losing--and then finding--one's own voice. The story has been told many times and in many ways. But always the mergirl wants more than her world can offer, and her father demands that she ...



  • The fourth novel in Serena Valentino's Villains series (Fairest of All, Beast Within, Poor Unfortunate Soul), features the story of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the Dark Fairy, Maleficent....



  • The tale of the legendary golden flower is widely known. The story has been told many times and in many ways. But always the flower is coveted by an old witch to keep herself young and beautiful. And always the flower is used to save a dying queen, w...





  • Throughout the Villains series, the Odd Sisters have meddled in the lives of the Wicked Queen, The Beast, Ursula, Maleficent, and Mother Gothel, changing the course of fate for the greatest villains ever known. Now, it's time for their reckoning....








  • Cruella De Vil is the perfect villain: stylish, witty, relentless...and possibly cursed. From her lonely childhood, to her iconic fashion choices, to that fateful car crash (you know the one), Cruella tells all in this marvelous memoir of a woman ...



  • This was supposed to be her happily ever after...It’s a familiar tale: A kind and beautiful young girl, reeling from loss. A doting father, frantic to bring a mother’s love back into his daughter’s life. And the selfish, cruel woman who insinua...



  • “Sure, you know the story of those wretched Dalmatians. But don’t I deserve a chance to tell my own side of the story? It is fabulous, after all.”You may think you know the tale: a happy young couple, one hundred and one Dalmatians, and the wom...



  • The 9th book in the New York Times bestselling Villains series tells the tale of the rise and fall of the infamous pirate, Captain Hook -- a boy who grew up. Before Peter Pan and Wendy. Before the Lost Boys. There was just a boy named James who wante...



  • From the New York Times best-selling author of Disney's Villains series comes a ghostly new stand-alone novel that reimagines The Legend of Sleepy Hollow through the eyes of a modern teen. The two-hundredth anniversary of the Headless Horseman's lege...





  • Disney''''s New York Times best-selling Villains series comes to life in this graphic novel adaptation of the book that started it all in this tragic tale of love and loss, the untold story of Snow White''''s Wicked Queen. The tale of the young princ...



  • The tenth book in the New York Times bestselling Villains series takes a dive into the Underworld, exploring how Hades turned from god to villain. Ruler of the Underworld is not the title Hades would have chosen for himself, but when he and his broth...



  • The eleventh book in the New York Times best-selling Villains series follows the downfall of Disney’s slickest, quickest, and smarmiest villain: Gaston.You may think this tale as old as time has been told before. You may know about the beauty, and ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Serena Valentino has published 28 books.

The next book by Serena Valentino, Kill the Beast, will be published in August 2024.

The first book by Serena Valentino, Nightmares & Fairy Tales, Volume 1: Once Upon A Time, was published in April 2004.

Yes. Serena Valentino has 1 series.