Forever shelf
Favorite books
- War of the Worlds
- Frankenstein
- 1984
A light is moving through the stacks
Finding your place.
Lantern is setting out the next page.
LanternAurelia KL Nyx
✨First Million WordsFounding word contributor
How it was earned: Published work that helped Lantern reach its first one million story words.
October by LanternlightOctober 2026 event author
How it was earned: Participated in the October by Lanternlight 2026 event.
Dark speculative fiction for readers who like their folklore hungry, their cosmos indifferent, and their dinner slightly suspicious.
Cosmic horrorFolk horrorDark fantasyBody horror
14,518published words across 1 Lantern story
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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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.
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