Text copyright © 2017 by Kiersten Brazier

Illustrations copyright © 2017 by Karl Kwasny

All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., Publishers since 1920. SCHOLASTIC, SCHOLASTIC PRESS, and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc.

The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: White, Kiersten, author. | Title: Beanstalker and other hilarious scarytales / Kiersten White. | Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2017. | Summary: Snow White is a vampire, Little Red Riding Hood is a zombie, and Cinderella is an arsonist–and that is only some of the mayhem the reader will find in this collection of fractured fairy tales. | Identifiers: LCCN 2016040578 (print) | LCCN 2016044412 (ebook) | ISBN 9780545940603 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780545945868 | Subjects: LCSH: Fairy tales. | Horror tales. | Humorous stories. | CYAC: Characters in literature–Fiction. | Fairy tales. | Horror stories. | Humorous stories. | LCGFT: Horror fiction. | Humorous fiction | Classification: LCC PZ8.W5795 Be 2017 (print) | LCC PZ8.W5795 (ebook) | DDC 813.6 [Fic]–dc23 | LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016040578.

First edition, August 2017

e-ISBN 978-0-545-94586-8

Cover design by Carol Ly and Baily Crawford

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher. For information regarding permission, write to Scholastic Inc., Attention: Permissions Department, 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.