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by Dylan Orosz (Author)
Title: Supernal Stories
Form: Short story collection (Volume I) 76K words / 28 stories = 2.7K avg words per story
Genre: Phantasy Fables x Weird Tales
Target Audience: Teen+ / for fans of The Twilight Zone and the short fiction of Bradbury and Kafka.
Pitch: *Supernal Stories* is a collection of stories about lives from beyond, strange souls & weird transformations, and the responsibility of existence.
Premises: Vol. I -- Meet thunderous kaiju, cosmic librarians, poet gods, existential snipers, and philosophically-minded A.I. golems, among others...
*SUPERNAL STORIES* comprise 7 volumes of inventively experimental short-form storytelling. There is a chronology of progress to this anthology of fiction written over seven years of worldly transformation (2017-2024). Genres presided include fantasy x sci-fi x horror and more. Themes presented include creation, identity, transformation, psychosis, ethereal mysteries, reality-blurring extrasensory perception, and the endless search for existential meaning. As the pages turn, concepts expand and visions illuminate; steadily, word by word, fresh universes and esoteric concepts shall be borne into the realms of your consciousness. These stories aim to detail the human condition from richly discerning angles and often feature supernatural twists.
Collecting Old Stories. In all, SUPERNAL STORIES are my volumes of stories past. I wrote short fiction on my blog Thresholds of Transformation from 2017-2024 and have re-revised these stories for collection into book volumes I plan to release from 2025-2026.
My Zones. These collections are wide-ranging and primarily inspired by what originally got me writing short fiction: The Twilight Zone. Fantasy x sci-fi x horror are on the menu; many stories are wandering and wondrous affairs and often feature satisfactorily weird twist endings. Some are plot heavy, others a kind of stream-of-consciousness psychic journey, and more than a few feature epic concepts.
Secret Origins. Altogether, SUPERNAL STORIES doubles as a platform to reveal my progression as a writer and in many ways represents the canvas on which I learned to write fiction. These concepts, characters, and stories would come to me and I'd do my best to bring their salacious seeds to flowery fruition. Alongside the organizing annals of a gigantic Trello board titled "Story Ideas" and filled with copious haphazard notes and glittering imagery, I churned out many. Most of the stories are under 3,000 words, though some stretch into rather epic adventures of 7K-15K words.
7-7-7. Since these stories were penned over a period of 7 years, there shall be 7 volumes, each one containing stories from each of the 7 years.
Cover Concepts. For the covers, I am using public domain art by various favored legends, whom I shall credit with telling a visual story of their own across the seven volumes. // In the collection's marketing and on my website, I include several alternates and master covers for the anthology as well. For me, these art pieces by Blake, Bosch, Friedrich, Martin, Paton, Raphael, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder help me to capture the sublime energy I am after with my phantasies.
