The Crystalwing Bat of Midnight Abbey
Audience: Dark or Intense
At Midnight Abbey, even the ghosts have manners — until a pack of loud relic hunters barges in looking for treasure and threatens the crystal-winged bat who ...
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Gothic
Fifteen illustrated stories appear on each archive page, newest first.
The story archive
Gothic
27 published tales
The Ivory Wolf of Bloodleaf Pass
Audience: Dark or Intense
A sacred ivory wolf guards Bloodleaf Pass, but when Castle Varrican tries to bind him with old bloodleaf magic, the mountain answers with teeth, shattered gl...
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The Silverwyrm Who Curled Around a Secret Kingdom
Audience: Dark or Intense
A silver dragon has curled around the hidden kingdom of Moonveil for two centuries, keeping its ruins, ghosts, nobles, and secrets from being devoured by the...
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The Moonmoth Oracle of Glassmere
Audience: Dark or Intense
A spoiled prince comes to Glassmere seeking proof that he was born for greatness, only to receive a catastrophic vision from a moonmoth oracle with ancient p...
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The Well That Knew Too Damn Much
Audience: Grown-Up Humor
A sharp-tongued widow inherits a crooked cottage, a crimson tree, and an old stone well with absolutely no filter. When the well starts spilling village secr...
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The Stormkeeper’s Cottage Beneath the Bloodleaf Tree
Audience: All Readers
Beneath the crimson canopy of the Bloodleaf Tree, Mara Vell keeps borrowed storms sealed away beneath her cottage—until one arrives wearing the shape of old ...
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The Twisted Road to Ravenwick House
Audience: Dark or Intense
A storm-dark road, a suspicious raven, and a manor with far too many secrets lead Silas Vetch into the orbit of the Widow of Ravenwick — a woman whose stolen...
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The Midnight Greenhouse Under the Crimson Elder
Audience: Dark or Intense
Beneath the ancient Crimson Elder, Maribel Thistlewick inherits a glowing midnight greenhouse, a warning-covered brass bell, and a family legacy of botanical...
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Moon Orchard Hollow
Audience: Grown-Up Humor
In Moon Orchard Hollow, one foolish baker steals from the Bad Decision Orchard under a full moon and accidentally triggers a village-wide audit of pride, gos...
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The Violin Goblin Who Hit the Forbidden Note
Audience: Dark or Intense
A mischievous goblin violinist accepts a midnight funeral invitation and follows the forbidden notes beneath Saint Bartholomew’s Cemetery, where a long-burie...
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The Crimson-and-Ivory Library Tower
Audience: All Readers
A storm-born tower, an unfinished staircase, and a book restorer with no patience left for buried lies collide in The Crimson-and-Ivory Library Tower. When M...
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The Scarlet Violin House
Audience: All Readers
When Juniper Wrenwick seeks shelter inside the strange and sassy Scarlet Violin House, she discovers a valley haunted by unfinished songs, old regrets, and a...
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The Copper Train Station at Hollow Bend
Audience: All Readers
At Hollow Bend Station, the midnight train does not merely collect passengers — it collects regrets, lost souls, unfinished business, and the occasional man ...
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A Mourning Dove Perched Between Seasons
Audience: All Readers
Perched between winter’s last breath and spring’s fragile promise, a mourning dove carries a quiet bargain older than the fence it rests upon. This Captured ...
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Laughter in the Dark
Audience: Dark or Intense
The Lantern-Bearer Appears Everyone in the village of Mirewood knew the rules about the forest. The elders taught them in school, the barkeep scrawled them o...
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