Tales From The Night Garden

An LGBTQIA+ Supernatural Contemporary Dark Fantasy Series

This series started, first and foremost, as a joke — What would happen if a vampire and a werewolf became best friends? The vampire just wandering into a room with a blood pack, sipping from it like it’s a Capri Sun, like, “…Sup?”

Multiple books, many illustrations, and countless sleepless nights later, The Night Garden has turned into an epic series of tales. The topics within involve losing your place, finding it, feeling as if you’ve failed, fighting wars, losing faith in dreams, being kind to one another, and ultimately realizing a literal village of support is behind you.

Tales From The Night Garden is an epic exploration of monsters finding out what makes you human.

If LGBTQIA+ (particularly ace nonbinary leads) romance, drama, fantasy, dark themes (including mental health struggles), and humor (sometimes gallows humor) are your thing, perhaps you’ll adore Cypress and Acanthus, as well.

☼ VOLUME 1: LEMON BALM ☼

A vampire and a werewolf walk into a church...

(No, there's no punchline.)

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Synopsis

Cypress Borne is 22 years old, a dashing young non-binary lad with a fairly easy life in New York City. That is — fairly easy until their routine is interrupted by a vicious dog attack on the way home from the gym. Their life turns upside down after that one singular event-- blackouts, unexplained fits of rage and lost time plague him. Two years of medical tests, therapy, and a life that's spiraling down the toilet later, they navigate their way through the panic attacks and the hopelessness to an old, derelict, and a seemingly abandoned church in the woods, away from the noise and the people. Little do they know, the church isn't abandoned but rather occupied by a vampire hoping to die and rotting in a coffin.

Acanthus Sylene believes that a fine wine should never have an age attached, and neither should a fine being. Nonbinary in such a way that gender is completely irrelevant, Acanthus has lived a very long life and is frankly exhausted by it. Embroiled deeply into the politics of the World of Shadows, they have abandoned their duties to The Night Garden, a refugee path that they forged. But, something changes when a lost, scared, ignorant werewolf shows up on their door step.

Both of these preternatural beings are looking for answers. Somehow, instead of finding their place in the world, they find each other. However, in the process of finding and growing with each other, they may have put their entire lives — and The Night Garden — at risk.

Trigger Warning List

We want you to dive into the story, but we also know that it’s a dark fantasy. Please note that the story contains some difficult topics, and we want to make sure that you’re prepared for it while reading. The story has more lighthearted moments than not, but just in case it is an issue, here is a list of common triggers woven throughout the story:

- Mental health struggles, suicidal ideation, self-harm, self-neglect, and disordered eating

- Vicious animals

- Implied (off-page) past abuse

- (very slight) mentions of drug use

- (very slight) homophobia and transphobia

- (very slight) mentions of animal death

- (very slight) Mentions of sex work

- (very slight) mentions of child neglect

☼ VOLUME 2: ALOE ☼

Info coming soon.