Stories with teeth.
Folklore embedded. Consequences real. No clean endings.
These are not comfortable books. They were never meant to be.
What to Expect
Folklore embedded
Real mythology and folk tradition woven into every story, not as decoration, but as the bones of the thing.
Consequences matter
Characters make choices. Choices have weight. Nobody gets away with anything for free.
Gritty and grounded
Dark urban fantasy and folk horror for readers who want something that feels real, even when the supernatural is involved.
Books
Dark Fantasy
Valerian Bone
When his fiancée disappears without explanation, alchemist Valerian Bone does what any reasonable person would do: he takes a teaching position at the school he suspects holds the answers. What he finds there is stranger, darker, and considerably more dangerous than he anticipated. Valerian Bone is a slow-burn dark fantasy about obsession, magic, and the lengths a person will go to for the person they love.
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Folk Horror / Dark Fantasy
Crimson Prince
A sorcerer living in New York receives news that should have been impossible: his grandmother, one of the most formidable practitioners he’s ever known, has been murdered. Before he can grieve, the threat turns towards him. Crimson Prince is a dark, fast-moving urban fantasy about magic, family legacy, and surviving long enough to find out who came for yours.
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Folk Horror / Dark Fantasy
These Kind of Knaves
When an ordinary man stumbles upon a black magic spell book, he doesn’t run from it, he sees an opportunity. He wants to leave something behind. A legacy. A mark on the world that says he was here. These Kind of Knaves is a story about ambition, folklore, and the very human desire to be remembered, and what happens when the tools you reach for are older and hungrier than you realised.
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Dark Urban Fantasy
Precious Vile Things
An amnesiac wakes with no memory of who he was, only the growing certainty that the people surrounding him know more than they’re saying, and that his ignorance is not an accident. As fragments of his past begin to surface, so does the realisation that whoever he used to be made powerful enemies. Precious Vile Things is a dark, tightly-wound story about identity, manipulation, and the danger of not knowing your own history.
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Folk Horror / Mythological Retelling
Out of the Grave
You know about Theseus and the Minotaur. Out of the Grave tells it from the ones history left behind: Ariadne, the princess who handed a hero the means of his victory, and Dionysus, the god who was there long before the glory and stayed long after. Rooted in Greek mythology and told without the comfortable distance of legend, this is a story about power, betrayal, and what it costs to be useful to the wrong people.
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