Dark Scribe Press is pleased to announce the inclusion of “Epistle of the Sleeping Beauty,” an original work of short fiction by Jan Vander Laenen, in the Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet anthology.

Jan Vander Laenen lives in Brussels, Belgium, where he works as an art historian and translator (Dutch, French and Italian). He is also the author of eight collections of short stories, plays, and screenplays which have attracted keen interest abroad. A romantic comedy, Oscar Divo, and a thriller, The Card Game, are presently in the hands of a competent producer in Hollywood, while his short fiction collections The Butler and Poète maudit are eliciting the requisite accolades in Italy. He credits Karen Blixen and Edgar Allan Poe as his literary influences.

“Epistle of the Sleeping Beauty” makes its English-language debut in the Unspeakable Horror anthology, having appeared in Dutch under the title “De schone slaper” and in French as “Le bel au bois dormant.”