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Coda Languez

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Back to SchoolSeptember 2026 event author

In My Stories, Love is Torture.

HorrorHorror RomanceEro-HorrorDark RomanceDark RomantasyGothic HorrorCosmic HorrorGothic Romance

Behind the byline

About the author

Coda Languez is a Software Engineer by the merciless light of day and an Artist/Author by the mischievous glow of moonlight. She harbors a passion for all things anime, horror, and comic-related, crowning her as a certified geek overlord in every realm imaginable.

Drawing inspiration from the twisted visions of Satoshi Kon, Kouta Hirano, Francesca Lia Block, and Clive Barker, Coda concocts a literary potion of black comedy, horror, magic realism, and dark romance, ensuring that her readers’ relationship with her morally ambiguous, sometimes outright nefarious protagonists remains deliciously ‘it’s complicated.’

When not conjuring code in her daytime techno-lair or weaving tales of psychologically unnerving romances and darkly humorous action after dusk, Coda can be found devouring anime epics, fantasy odysseys, and sci-fi adventures, or shamelessly surrendering to the siren call of competition reality TV (her secret indulgence).

At the heart of her quirky universe, she is the proud matriarch to an endearing little human, two Pembroke Welsh Corgi jesters, one sassy shepherd-lab sovereign, and the partner-in-crime to a husband who navigates her whimsical chaos with a saint’s patience.

For more info, check out Coda’s social media @codalanguez.

⌖ Within the Speakeasy hidden behind the Fungeon.

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The fun stuff.

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

Forever shelf

Favorite books

Carrie
The Rose and the Beast
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
I Was a Teenage Fairy
Misery
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
Colour Out of Space

In the headphones

Writing soundtrack

Dark Synthwave
Medieval Instrumental Metal
Bardcore
Chilltrap
Sludge Metal
Industrial
Gothic Rock
Videogame OSTs

Tiny author lore

Things to know

Puerto Rican Biracial Woman (support me, I'm BIPOC!)
Military Brat with bizarre idioms
Drink, draw, write!

On Lantern

Stories by Coda Languez

Dark Romance

Nobody Came Looking: A Love Story

**She disappeared from a rave. One text, six hours late.** _**hey did u leave early? lol**_ **She never went home.** Rachel Santos has been invisible her entire life. The middle daughter nobody remembered to pick up. The girl saved in somebody's phone as _Hoodie Girl._ When two strangers pull her out of a crowd and a third one feeds her breakfast like she matters, she doesn't fight it. She sinks. Into their loft. Into their beds. Into a world where she is photographed like a masterpiece, marked like territory, and fed like something precious. Three men, three kinds of hunger, and starving invisible Rachel finally full. She stops going to class. She stops checking her phone. By the time the worship shows its walls, her apartment is gone, her phone is dead in a drawer, and there is no outside left. Just a lock, and she turns it herself. _Nobody Came Looking: A Love Story_ is book one of **The Loft Duet.** A descent with no ladder. It will not apologize to you. **For readers of:** dark romance with actual teeth, horror that happens somewhere warm and well fed, and love stories you'll need to shower after.

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Dark Romantasy

Custodian

Brother Anselm has kept spotless discipline for fourteen years: flagellation on Tuesdays and Fridays, the canonical hours recited on schedule, sermons on lust so pointed the blacksmith’s wife says they make her feel clean. Then he finds something bleeding in the November leaves, carries it home, and locks it in the root cellar under a lie about a broken gate latch. He tells himself she’s a specimen. He builds a feeding stand at exactly twelve inches, trains her the way a falconer trains a hawk, and fills a ledger with clinical notes about antler growth and dappled skin that no priest should be able to describe so precisely. He calls her demon the way he says Amen. She calls him by the name he discarded the day he was ordained. Custodian details three years of confinement, confession, and a Summa theology, a collection of handwritten notes that was not intended to hold them. It tells the story of a man who aimed to civilize a creature but ultimately learned which of them was truly being imprisoned.