Explore the Best Indie Fantasy Books

No heroes. Just hard truths dressed in strange clothing.

A farm boy discovers a mermaid in the family pond—one who grants wishes with unsettling precision. A vampire cruises the backroads in a luxury RV. A bard finds punk rock through a magical glass and ignites a cultural revolution. In Mad Tapestry, the familiar is only strange once.

This is the bastard child of bedtime stories and broken televisions. A collection of twelve darkly funny, deeply unsettling tales where fairy tales curdle, futures collapse, and magic comes with consequences.

For readers who like their fiction sharp, skewed, and a little bit feral.

Tom Bradley, recovering from a stroke, discovers a new, inner self who can also hear the thoughts of others in close proximity. In the park where he exercises daily, he overhears a robbery plot and reports it to the police.The plotters are arrested and the drug gang’s profits, over two hundred thousand pounds, are impounded. The gang’s boss, K, threatens to snatch Tom’s wife, if Tom does not return the cash and Tricia is kidnapped as insurance. The villain escapes with the cash when the police botch an arrest attempt without identifying Tricia’s location. He flees to France but is arrested at the Channel Tunnel and returned into police custody, without the cash.Tom is allowed to inte...