Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eenie, Meenie | 2013 | Willow Rose | Buy |
| 2 | Nibble, Nibble, Crunch | 2013 | Willow Rose | Buy |
| 3 | Rock-a-Bye Baby | 2013 | Willow Rose | Buy |
| 4 | Humpty Dumpty | 2013 | Willow Rose | Buy |
| 5 | Better Watch Out | 2017 | Willow Rose | Buy |
| 6 | Mommy Dearest | 2017 | Willow Rose | Buy |
Willow Rose’s short fiction includes six novellas. Four horror stories published in 2013 draw on nursery rhymes for their premises. Better Watch Out (2017) and Mommy Dearest (2017) are later entries in her short fiction catalog.
The 2013 novellas are part of Rose’s Horror Stories from Denmark sequence. Eenie, Meenie and Nibble, Nibble, Crunch use familiar children’s rhymes as the basis for dark stories, while Rock-a-Bye Baby and Humpty Dumpty continue the pattern. The nursery rhyme angle gives the horror a creepy familiarity that works well in short form.
Better Watch Out and Mommy Dearest, both from 2017, are standalone novellas that move away from the Danish setting of the earlier stories. Rose uses these shorter works as a break from her novel-length series, giving readers self-contained scares that can be finished in a single sitting.