Serials & Novels
Here's where we can talk about all the serials and novel projects I've been doing, mostly for Pick-n-Mix Comix, but generally just based on the lore of the Sorrows Of Blackwood universe as a whole.
Novels
After I started writing Escape To Prolune, a bunch of other ideas for more lengthy, novel-styl1e fics based on my worldbuilding and lore came together, and that's what all of these are. As of 2025, this is the bulk of the focal work for Pick-n-Mix Comix, Sorrows Of Blackwood, and the worlds of the Other Realms and the Chasm of Stars in general, so hopefully there'll be a lot of content to populate this section with as these fics come together.Escape To ProluneA Silvani elf by the name of Werner Goldrucken leaves the Other Realms behind in favor of the Chasm of Stars, where he finds the isolated mining colony of Prolune, meets friends such as the wasp-themed Mechosian Desolator named Vespulis, and gets wrapped up in a Stellar Meridian plot to capture a Trogaron convinct in pursuit of a slime named Klymestra. |
Grace Morgan & The Offering Of MarkorIn 1980, witch-detective Grace Morgan feuds with her neighbors — a coven known as the Circle of Six — who want to summon the demon Marchosias to one of their homes on Mooney Crescent. |
Sable's JourneyIn 1984, the vampire Sable Belgrave leaves Grimshaw with a group of dysfunctional slasher movie archetypes in order to venture into the Kingdom of Inglenook and find her brother, Gallo Belgrave, who seems to have become their world's new Alderghast — an afterlife spirit that collects lost souls who died at the end of every year. |
ShadowhauntElven drakehound-breeder Dagger Reinhardt, of the Silvani tribe, has dreams of Abo, a Dragorean entity known as the Sufferer in Shadow, and worries what this might mean for the Kingdom of Inglenook's future — while working on a new breed of drakehounds that might be able to combat this menace. |
Serials
These were mostly projects from before 2025, when I was first experimenting with the webserial format for original works set in this universe. They weren't very canon, aren't very good, and are differentiated from the novel-formatted serials mosty in terms of casualness and chapter-length, but there's a temporal differentiaton too in that I consider the "novel" era as starting with 2025's Escape To Prolune, and these serials all predate that, so they just don't really fit and deserve a different categorization altogether.
Also, in some cases, these explore alternate takes on the continuity or just don't really fit into what I'm trying to do now — but what is canon, anyway, when you think about it? Just a bowl of spaghetti, waiting to be eaten.
ComixGallo Belgrave draws comix in an alternate world where it's always summer, they're always kids, and Grace and Sable hate each other. They're called Sorrow Comix and this is their story. |
The Green Room"Psychic" talk show host Hugo Lockhart is called back home to his family's house in Kineford after his father tells him his mother is dying. Reunions between family ensue, and Hugo confronts feelings from his past he long ago ran away from, while his father tries to teach him what life as an automaton is all about. Later on, Grace Morgan arrives, and they begin investigating the "death" of Tristan Grimshaw, the corruption of Wade Mayfield by the demon in the hill, the rail line being built through the Hinterlands, the mystery of the horses at the Ryder Preserve, and much more. Hugo tries desperately to avoid becoming an automaton too, and unfortunately life fails him, despite everyone's best efforts. |
Miasma Lost: Tales Of The Plague YearSometimes, the worst trauma happens to the invisible and the lost. Inspired by the idea of lost trees and ruins by the side of the road, Miasma Lost is an expansion of an initial vignette set in the 1980s in the Kingdom of Inglenook, as the Miasment strikes one terrible autumn year — and explores some of its unseen aftermath as the world begins to move on, such as the thought that, when you're a kid, you think the ruins you see by the roadside could be anything and can't help but feel the history in their bones. |
Solemn Graces: A Gothic RetellingA serialized retelling of the Solemn Graces storyline, an urban fantasy drama centered around the witch Grace Morgan discovering and moving to the shadow-city of Grimstead in the backwoods of Inglenook Valley. The main goal of this project is to adapt the overall story and thematic tone of the original Solemn Graces plans, episodes, and outlines to a more casual, reader-friendly environment, while providing a means of consistently updating and adding to the story in a more dynamic and fluid manner than the original format allows for. Think of it like a comic book meets gothic soap opera, in the form of a literary chocolate box. You're not getting a novel, you're getting a universe; a hidden city in the woods filled with monsters, monstrous people, and horrors. Some romance too. And a whole lot of weird characters. |