Yarnulf takes a shortcut through the forest and finds Gossia, a pixie tending a garden of bones. Every skeleton was someone who laughed at her. She is not angry about it. A dark folk horror fable about courtesy, cruelty and the things that live in forests

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In 1812, French artist Théodore Géricault painted The Severed Heads. The pair were unknown, their story unrecorded. But France was in the bloody turmoil of post-revolutionary governance, and someone must have known who they were. A dark historical fiction story set in Nimes, where two lovers tried to survive across political divides that France made fatal.

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During the dissolution of the monasteries, Lady Katherine Bulkeley receives a letter that may end her abbey forever. In the chapel that night, the ghosts of Henry II and Fair Rosamund appear, and what they say about love, legacy and authority is not what she expects. A historical ghost story set at Godstow Abbey during the reign of Henry VIII.

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A Cistercian monk from 1137 steps through a temporal door in his abbey and arrives in 2137, where an artificial intelligence called ARIX governs truth itself — deciding what humanity may know, believe, and remember. A philosophical dark fiction story about faith, knowledge, and the oldest question of all: who decides what is real?

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We stand at a pivotal moment in human history. A moment where artificial, non-human intelligence is being asked to extend our abilities, while some argue it is actually replacing them.

This tale is cautionary. It couldn't really happen. Could it.

In 1899, French photographer Felix Thollier captured a photograph called Horse Training. No context was ever given. Neither horse nor trainer was ever named. Until today. A dark folk horror story rooted in real history, for readers who enjoy strange and unsettling outcomes.

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In the dark city of Streindarke, emotion is not forbidden. It is processed, certified, and filed. Registrar Albrecht Baus administers the bonds of love as bureaucratic duty, until the weight of what he cannot feel for himself becomes impossible to ignore. A gothic, dystopian tale inspired by the song Dark Entries by Bauhaus.

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