The Story of Red and Her Wolf by Coda Languez is a free dark fairytale, a Little Red Riding Hood retelling for readers who like their woods deep, their hunters cursed, and their fairy tales with a heartbeat.
About the Book
A young fugitive is saved by a mysterious hunter dressed in red. Cursed by a dying beast, he’s handed an ultimatum: survive thirty days in the Deep Woods alongside his would-be executioner. As the days bleed together, the question sharpens. Is Red just a hunter, or a kindred wound walking in the same dark?
Read It Free, Chapter by Chapter
The Story of Red and Her Wolf is being serialized free on my newsletter, a new chapter every Saturday starting August 1st. Same story, no download required, and it arrives as it drops. Fourteen chapters, and none of them will ever be locked.
What to Expect
Coda Languez writes the fairy-tale retelling the way a fairy tale is supposed to be: dark woods, real teeth, and a love story that earns its scars. The Story of Red and Her Wolf is a quick, atmospheric read that works as a standalone or as a doorway into Coda’s longer dark-romantic-horror catalogue.
Tropes & Themes
- Little Red Riding Hood retelling
- Cursed hunter / beast curse
- Enemies-to-something dynamic
- 30-day countdown / forced proximity
- Deep Woods setting
- Dark fairytale / fantasy romance
You May Also Like
If The Story of Red and Her Wolf hits the spot, try The Letters Between Sex and Violence, Coda’s anthology series of dark-romantic horror short stories, or Thalassophobia: A Lovecraftian Fairytale for another full-length fairy-tale retelling drowned in horror.
Get the Free Download
The Story of Red and Her Wolf is a free reader-magnet story available via BookFunnel: download The Story of Red and Her Wolf on BookFunnel. Available in EPUB, MOBI, and PDF. Prefer it a chapter at a time? Read it free on the newsletter instead.
Content Warnings
This is dark fiction for adult readers. The Story of Red and Her Wolf opens on a young man escaping sexual exploitation and does not look away: coerced sex, physical and sexual abuse, graphic violence, gore, body horror, and a curse that rewrites a body against its will. Tristan is twenty, and every character on the page is an adult.
