It's been a bit since we posted on our Reddit page, mainly because we're inept fools who don't know how to use it properly, lol! We want to thank everyone following us, and we promise we'll post more content here from now on. We hope everyone is enjoying Maeltopia and the Sleep-Wake Cycle! Let us know if you're enjoying the podcast or what characters you'd like to see more of. We'd love to hear your feedback!

Hey all,

We're three friends who started Maeltopia LLC several years ago to try to turn our creative work into our dream job.

We're not there yet, but we're getting closer, so we decided to create this sub to help spread the word about our work and celebrate all things horror fiction and dark fiction related.

We'll be sharing everything from our dark fiction and podcast to original artwork and YouTube narrations, with occasional updates on our other projects like our tabletop game and graphic novel.

But this sub is also about dark fiction and artwork in general, so we welcome you to share your favorite authors, books, artists and artwork!

We're also excited to share a bit of news with you here in our first post. One of our dreams for Maeltopia has recently come true: We landed our first contract several months ago with WildBlue Press, and our first book is officially available for preorder! It's all still sinking in for us, but it's incredibly exciting.

The Red Son by Mark Anzalone, Book One of The Red Family Trilogy, releases October 29th!

From the back cover:

“I am, first and foremost, an artist. The murders are but provision.”

- The Family Man

In a world horribly altered by a mysterious year-long phenomenon dubbed the Great Darkness of 1999, the Family Man—a serial killer for whom dreaming and killing are intertwined—wanders the strange new landscape searching for answers.

Haunted by the powerful Red Dream visited upon him by the enigmatic Shepherd of Wolves, the Family Man stumbles across a kill list containing the names of other monstrous serial killers, some even more infamous than he. They have been drawn into the Shepherd’s Game—the ultimate contest of killers—and the prize is worth every drop of blood spilled in its name.

As the Family Man resolves to strike the killers’ names from his list and unravel the mystery of the Shepherd of Wolves, his own personal war against the waking world demands a heavy price—he must first wake the demons of his suppressed past.

A place to discuss all things Maeltopia, horror, and dark fiction!