Author of Dark Fantasy
Ludenwyk is real, and the barrier between worlds is starting to crack.
Marty P. Daly is a writer of gaslamp fantasy from Northern Ireland, drawn to stories where magic isn't necessarily magical, and the worst things in the dark are our own minds.
His debut novel, Limen, grew out of a fascination with the Victorian era, occultism, and the question of what a choice really costs.
He studied at Liverpool Hope University, where shared houses with too many people, and daily hangovers, proved unsurprisingly good research for the students of Ars Notoria.
In an alternate Victorian Britain where occult practice is contested by the government, 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 shared history and dark secrets. Where covens trade snide comments with the government, students of the occult get drunk on more than alcohol, and even the College of Solicitors turns out to be seen as the strangest of them all.
Those with psychogena synaesthesia can sense what lies between matter and dark matter — numina — and bend it to their will. Everyone else just calls it madness.
A barrier between parallel worlds. One kept majyk alive. The other chose machines. Both are in danger.
Made up of Managing Directors, Occult Senior Specialists, and a team of clerks to take the minutes of endless meetings.
The only university of occult science in Pretania. Where the motto is 'Unknown Limits' and the students take it literally.
For literary agent enquiries, collaboration, or just to say hello.
hello@martypdaly.com