Author of Dark Fantasy
Where witchcraft is unglamorous, power has a price, and the veil between worlds is thinner than you think.
Marty P. Daly is a writer of gaslamp fantasy from Northern Ireland, drawn to stories where the supernatural lives in the domestic — in kitchens, in cellars, in the space between what's said and what's meant.
His debut novel, Through the Veil, grew out of a fascination with Victorian occultism, the politics of forbidden knowledge, and the question of what power really costs when nobody's watching.
He studied at the University of Liverpool, where shared houses with too many people and not enough hot water proved surprisingly useful research for writing about covens.
When Phantasy and Reality Bleed
In an alternate Victorian Britain where occult practice is a contested civil right, three lives collide at the threshold between worlds. A grieving boy who can't perform the magic everyone expects of him. An orphan who sees the dead. A young man quietly working toward catastrophe.
Ludenwyk is a city built on secrets — a sprawling alternate London where covens operate in townhouses, daemons are summoned in basements, and the government would rather pretend none of it exists.
Not wands and sparkles. Bodily, psychologically weighted, with rules that bend but never break.
A barrier between parallel worlds. One kept magic alive. The other chose machines. Both are in danger.
Found family in the truest sense — forged in shared kitchens, whispered spells, and the refusal to be silent.
For literary agent enquiries, collaboration, or just to say hello.
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