Lantern author

Aurelia KL Nyx

Dark speculative fiction for readers who like their folklore hungry, their cosmos indifferent, and their dinner slightly suspicious.

Cosmic horrorFolk horrorDark fantasyBody horror

Behind the byline

About the author

I write dark speculative fiction where folklore crawls out of the woods, the universe is rarely benevolent, and ordinary places have a habit of becoming deeply wrong. My work blends cosmic horror, folk horror, body horror, dark fantasy, and the occasional culinary nightmare. I am especially interested in stories about obsession, transformation, ancient things with inconvenient appetites, and characters who discover far too late that the rules they believed in were never the real rules. If you enjoy beautiful settings, creeping dread, strange mythology, morally questionable choices, and the growing suspicion that something is watching from just beyond the page, welcome.

⌖ North Florida, where the woods have opinions

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Author marginalia

The fun stuff.

The little things readers always want to know after the last page.

Forever shelf

Favorite books

War of the Worlds
Frankenstein
1984

In the headphones

Writing soundtrack

Mostly silence
Sometimes thunderstorms

Tiny author lore

Things to know

I have an unreasonable distrust of empty restaurants after midnight.

On Lantern

Stories by Aurelia KL Nyx

Horror

Marrow's After Midnight

A desperate night-shift waitress takes a job at Marrow’s, an isolated roadside diner where the menu changes after midnight, customers order impossible things, and one rule matters above all: never serve Booth Nine.