S C Saunders
Nox Sanguinem is a hidden history of the world, a shadow empire that has thrived alongside humanity for millennia.
Beneath the wars of kings and nations lies a deeper war of blood, fought by legions of the undying, governed by a Senate older than Rome itself, and bound by laws etched in myth. Their empires have risen and fallen in secret, their power stitched into the fabric of civilisation: from Alexander’s conquests to the trenches of Europe, from whispered folklore to modern corridors of power.
This is not a world of superstition, but of ruthless order. Vampires do not glitter, they command armies, manipulate economies, and carry scars of centuries.
They are soldiers, senators, predators, creatures who walk among us unseen, shaping the destiny of nations while waging their own eternal civil wars.
At its heart, Nox Sanguinem is a universe of prophecy and betrayal, where every oath is written in blood and every century leaves new graves behind.
Humanity thinks itself free, but history belongs to the night.
Horror
Infernal and Faustian Horror
Deals with pacts, temptation, and descent. These are stories where the Devil wears many masks. Horror here is not about monsters alone, but about bargains struck in the dark and the terrible prices they demand.
Folk and Ancestral Horror
Rooted in landscape, folklore, and ritual. Villages hide secrets, moors remember old griefs, and festivals reek of sacrifice. This is horror where history bleeds into the present and the land itself seems complicit. Every rite has a cost, and every bloodline carries its curse.
Psychological and Identity Horror
Centred on obsession, paranoia, and the fragile boundary between self and other. These stories prise open the human mind like a locked box, revealing fractured doubles, unreliable realities, and transformations that may not be escaped. Horror becomes intimate, and every reflection is suspect.
Haunted and Gothic Horror
Old houses, forgotten prisons, snowbound inns, and places where history refuses to stay buried. The architecture itself becomes antagonist, memory becomes weapon, and ghosts are not passive echoes but active participants in a story of guilt, justice, or possession.
Body and Monstrous Horror
Transformation, violation, and evolution taken to grotesque extremes. Flesh becomes unstable, identities mutate, and science or vengeance twists the body into something new. Horror here is visceral and inescapable, confronting the reader with the terrifying plasticity of the human form.
Satirical and Socio-Political Horror
Playgrounds of cruelty that critique the modern world. Death games broadcast for ratings, theme parks hiding sacrificial altars, dystopian experiments disguised as justice. These stories blend spectacle with savagery, satire with blood, holding up a cracked mirror to society’s appetites.
Occult and Cult Horror
Secret orders, rituals drenched in blood, and theology bent into nightmare. This is horror of belief and belonging, where communities mask atrocities with devotion and faith becomes the sharpest weapon. No sanctuary is safe and no altar is clean.
Celestial and Metaphysical Horror
Where angels fall, gods grow jealous, and mortals wrestle with the divine. These stories merge tragedy and transcendence, showing horror not as a descent into darkness but as a confrontation with light so bright it burns.
Abstract and Punishment Horror
Not monsters, but systems. Not haunted houses, but haunted realities. Here the horror is existential. Prisons of memory, cursed algorithms, storytelling itself as contagion. Stories where punishment is infinite and the walls are made of guilt and dread.
Crowleys Trinity
Crowley’s Trinity is a paranormal noir series where science, faith, and obsession collide.
At its centre are three unlikely investigators: Dr Catherine Darling, a sharp-tongued academic with a taste for ghosts; Father Thomas Pinkerton, a priest whose exorcisms mask his own doubts; and RJ Hamilton, a fixer with one foot in the shadows of bureaucracy.
They are bound together by the writings of Daniel Crowley, an enigmatic author whose fractured manuscripts and elusive philosophy seem to predict the very horrors they encounter.
Whether Crowley is a genius, a charlatan, or something far more dangerous remains an open question, but his influence shapes their every step.
Dark, atmospheric, and unflinching, Crowley’s Trinity explores what happens when science, faith, and obsession are forced to confront the unknown and discover it is staring back.