Author of Dark Fantasy
The occult is real, the government denies it, and the barrier between worlds is starting to crack.
Marty P. Daly is a writer of gaslamp fantasy from Northern Ireland, drawn to stories where the supernatural lives just out of sight, and the worst things in the dark are our own minds.
His debut novel, Limen, grew out of a fascination with the Victorian era, occultism, governmental shadow cabinets, and the question of what a choice really costs.
He studied at Liverpool Hope University, where shared houses with too many people, and daily hangovers, proved unsurprisingly good research for the students of Ars Notoria.
In an alternate Victorian Britain where occult practice is a contested civil right, three lives collide at the threshold between worlds. A grieving boy who can't perform the magic everyone expects of him. An orphan who sees the dead. A young man quietly working toward catastrophe.
Ludenwyk is a city built on secrets — a sprawling alternate London where covens keep their fires burning behind closed doors, daemons are summoned by candlelight, and the Imperium would rather pretend none of it exists.
Perception made lethal. Those with psychogena synaesthesia can sense numina matter — the invisible substance between the world we know and the dark beyond it — and bend it to their will. Everyone else just calls it madness.
A barrier between parallel worlds. One kept majyk alive. The other chose machines. Both are in danger.
Found family in the truest sense — forged in shared kitchens, whispered spells, and the refusal to be silent.
The only university of occult science in Pretania. Where the motto is 'Unknown Limits' and the students take it literally.
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