Aethereal Stories is a universe of interconnected tales where mythology, history, and fantasy collide in cinematic narratives that blur the boundaries between legend and lived experience.
Through the eyes of flawed characters, these stories trace a cosmic war across ages – from primordial battles to broken kingdoms and the end of the world.
Coming May 2026
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Hope's End — Theme from Cambion
Something came for Christine Knight the night her son was born. By morning, a hospital had been levelled. Six hundred people were dead. The records had been erased and the building replaced with a retirement home, its lawn trimmed and unremarkable.
Her son survived.
His name is Robert. He is eight years old when the story begins, and he has spent every year since watching two men build a wall of silence around him and calling it love. He has noticed the locks checked twice, the curtains drawn before dusk, the way adults stop talking when he enters a room. He has noticed the clocks.
He has started to take notes.
Set across seven years in the rain-soaked hills of Derbyshire, Cambion is a supernatural thriller about family, deception, and the long cost of protection — about what two men will burn to the ground to keep one boy breathing, and what that boy will discover when he finally looks at the ash.
The truth has been waiting for him since before he was born.
It has been very patient.
Vol 2: Beauty and the Beast Within
Vol 3: A Glastonbury Tale
Vol 4: Hope's End
Vol 5: The Divine Ring
For almost all of human time there were no kings, no cities, no written names—only small fires in the dark, and the long, uncertain dawn that led at last to Egypt.
The Long Dawn: Hominids, Gods, and the Road to Egypt traces humanity's journey across seven million years, from the earliest known hominids to the founding of the first pharaonic state around 3000 BC. Written by Dr. Eliana Haddad, an Oxford archaeologist specialising in the prehistoric Near East, this narrative history follows the fragile thread of human survival through ice ages and climate catastrophes, the birth of agriculture and monumental ritual sites like Göbekli Tepe, and the emergence of the first cities along the Nile and in Mesopotamia.
Neither textbook nor fantasy, The Long Dawn tells the story of our deep past with the atmosphere and emotional weight of epic fiction while remaining anchored in archaeological evidence and scholarly debate. Each chapter honours the countless generations who lived and died without record, whose bones and tools are all that remain of lives lived at the edge of extinction.
This is the history of a world before memory—and the story of how, against all odds, that world became ours.
Part of the Aethereal Stories universe
Before England was England, it was a land of broken crowns and dying gods.
Englaland: An Age of Broken Kings chronicles the violent birth of the English monarchy through seven centuries of blood, betrayal, and desperate survival—from King Egbert's dream of unity in 802 to the shattering of that dream at Hastings in 1066.
Written as a mythic chronicle by Ariaste of the Unwaking Library—an immortal chronicler who witnessed the fading of Arthur's age—this is history told with the atmosphere and emotional weight of epic fantasy. The White Boar of Wessex struggles to forge a single crown. The Sea-Wolf arrives from across the northern seas, bringing chaos and conquest. The Godwins rise as kingmakers, only to watch everything collapse in the Year of Three Kings.
This is the twilight between the age of the Divine Ring and the age of the Conqueror—when magic withdrew from the world, monsters walked the land, and shadowy forces fought their secret war while mortal kings claimed their fragile thrones.
Part historical chronicle, part grimdark saga, Englaland is the opening volume of Song of the Island Kings—an epic retelling of the English monarchy where every crown is earned in blood, and every throne sits on shifting ground.
Part of the Aethereal Stories universe
The stories you've glimpsed here are fragments of a much larger mythos—a hidden history spanning creation myths, forgotten eras, legendary figures, and ancient relics that bind the Aethereal Stories universe together.
Delve deeper into the cosmology, trace the Great Eras that shaped this world, meet the characters who walk between legend and reality, and discover the artefacts that altered the course of history.
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