Night Black, Moon White:  Trapped in an abusive household, two sisters flee through dark mirrors into eerie, glittering worlds as beautiful as they are dangerous.

Mistfall:  In an isolated town plagued by a dark curse, a young woman braves the dangers that lurk beyond the walls of her house—and the monster that resides within.

Complicated Dust:  The shattered spirit of a lost girl returns for one night, to revisit the life that killed her.

This anthology is releasing in stores this month, in ebook and paperback. It already has an incredibly beautiful illustrated cover by the magnificent Just Venture Arts, with which I couldn't possibly be happier. It perfectly captures the eerie, dark, but devastatingly beautiful atmosphere of my tales.

This project is to fund a hardback edition, with the shimmering deluxe elements it deserves.  I'm printing the title text on the cover in foil, so it catches the light the way it deserves. The page edges will be sprayed black, carrying the night all the way through the book. And there'll be a satin black ribbon bookmark, so you can leave off mid-story and step back in without losing your place among the dark mirrors and glittering worlds.

If this project goes beyond its goal, I have more lush beauty planned: matching endpapers, so you're greeted with more darkness and shimmer the moment you open the book, and an illustrated chapter header or story title, something that evokes the beauty, pain and mystique of the tales. Stretch goals, should we get there together.

And I'd like to deliver this gorgeous piece of bespoke creativity, direct from my tangled neurodivergent brain into the hands of those who'll linger over every word, drink the stories deep, and emerge a little bit changed by them.
 

Enjoy Night Black, Moon White & Other Stories in three ways:

Neurodivergent and a passionate history buff, C. Eveline English grew up in isolated farmhouses in the English countryside, with no heating in winter. She knows all about monsters that lurk in the cold and the dark, and sometimes they make their way into her stories. She now bakes and reads her way through a much cosier life. Night Black, Moon White is her first work of gothic fantasy. She also writes under the name Charlotte E. English, where she is the author of more than fifty titles spanning the spectrum from cosy to epic to dark fantasy, and everything in between.

That's the official blurb. I'm also Charlotte E. English, under which name I've published a wealth of novels over the past fifteen years. I've sold a lot of books - enough to keep this as my job for a decade and a half, time I've spent immersed in creativity (spinning stories out of the deep wilds of my mind) and business (spreading my tales as wide as I can so they'll find the readers who need them. And of course paying my rent, so I can keep eating and keep writing). I'm a poet of a writer, with a deep appreciation for the music that lingers in sentences and the layers of meaning in words.

I've been blessed with the acclaim of people and publications I respect, including:

If Night Black, Moon White has left you hungry for more of the gothic and the strange, I have good news: this isn't my first trip into the shadows. Under my other name, Charlotte E. English, I've spent the last fifteen years writing everything from cosy to epic to properly dark fantasy, and a few of those series are perfect companions to these stories.

The Malykant Mysteries are Victorian gothic through and through: wintry, chilling, murder-soaked. House of Werth is comically gothic and creepily cosy in equal measure, a Regency-set series with real bite under the charm. And the Chronicles of Vexx duology takes the same sensibility somewhere stranger still, into decopunk territory, leavened with a wit worthy of Wodehouse.

Add any of them to your pledge below — ebook, paperback, hardback, or audiobook, however you like to read — and take a little more of the dark home with you.

We are part of Printopia 2026! Join us and many other Horror & Thriller writers for cross-collab freebies, digital zines, and tons of other fun 📚

Don't forget to check out the other genres:

Fantasy: Epic worlds, mythical beasts, and magic systems that defy reality.

Sci-Fi: Futuristic technology, space adventures, and mind-bending science.

Horror & Thriller: Spine-chilling scares, dark mysteries, and high-stakes suspense.

Romance: Heartwarming journeys, passionate bonds, and unforgettable love.

All-Ages: Fun, engaging, and wholesome tales perfect for every generation.

Anthologies & Collections: Curated short stories, diverse art styles, and unique creative voices.

Estimated shipping costs (for a single book):

    + €3 if your order includes a signed bookplate (because this will be sent directly from me, the author, while books ship straight from the printer). 

Add-ons: Each additional print book will have an estimated add-on shipping cost of €3 - €4. 
Additional bookplates can be shipped at no extra shipping cost, up to a maximum of 4 bookplates. Above this number (due to weight thresholds) further bookplates ship with an extra €2 postage.

Further info regarding shipping, import taxes, and tariffs (to the best of our present knowledge): 

Tracking: we will use tracked shipping for all hardback books. Paperbacks that are printing and shipping within the same country will be sent regular mail (no tracking); any paperbacks shipping overseas will use tracked post where possible. It won't be possible to use tracking for small articles like bookplates. 

For prospective backers whose countries we are unable to ship to: consider backing the Gossamer Tier for a digital read - and check out the digital add-ons!

It's a little hard to pin down exactly when everything can be delivered, especially because these books will become even more beautiful by way of extra art if we achieve some extra goals together. Commissioning more art adds some weeks to the production time. However, general estimates are as follows:

November 2026: Digital rewards dispatch
January 2027: Print books and bookplates dispatch

I'm collaborating with Christopher D. Schmitz and the action-packed supernatural fantasy trilogy Wolves of the Tesseract. If you enjoy fast-paced supernatural fantasy with cosmic horror, mystery, monsters, unforgettable characters, and world-ending stakes, this series was written for you! This project is producing in trilogy, comic and audio formats and it's funding right now as part of Printopia.

If you back Wolves of the Tesseract and Night Black, Moon White and other stories you will receive an extra bonus! This is a built in feature of Backerkit which helps similar projects work together to find more fans.

So here are the extra shinies: if you back both projects and you've pledged to my campaign at a physical-book tier (Silver or Diamond), you'll get a free paperback copy of my new, gothic fantasy-of-manners novelette Grotesquerie For Ladies (under my other pen name, Charlotte E. English). If you back both projects and you pledge to Night Black, Moon White at Gossamer (digital) tier, you'll get a copy of Grotesquerie For Ladies in ebook.     

Enjoy and let's support more creators!