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Dark Threads

A Gathering of Dark Fantasy Tales, Vol.1

Three Worlds. Three Fates. One Thread of Darkness.

Book Description

Sometimes the Dark offers the only way forward.

In this collection of haunting dark fantasy tales, mortals an spirits alike wrestle with destiny, sacrifice, and the cost of power.

 

In The Breath Borrower, a sacred thief of breath must choose between duty and mercy in a city where life and death hang on a whisper.

 

The Withering follows a lone scholar through a dream-infested Underland, seeking a cure for a dying world—even as her own body fades.

 

And in Vapors of Misuse, a cursed twin races against time to use forbidden magic against a ruthless tyrant—before he is consumed by the very power he wields.

 

These are not stories of easy victories or neat endings. They are stories of survival, of sacrifice, and of what lingers when hope is gone.

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Literary Titan Review:

Kat Farrow’s Dark Threads is a collection of three short, dark fantasy stories…Farrow builds these worlds that feel incredibly heavy and real. You can almost smell the back alleys in “The Breath Borrower” or feel the chill of the Underland in “The Withering.” It’s not flashy writing. It’s solid and direct, and it uses that simplicity to hit you hard…  5 Stars

Literary Titan Author Interview:

Q: Dark Threads tells three haunting dark-fantasy stories where desperate survivors endure brutal magic and impossible choices in worlds crumbling under their own shadows. What sparked the initial idea for Dark Threads, and did one story come first?

A: The Breath Borrower was the first dark-fantasy story I’d ever written…

Tropes
Forbidden Magic, Cost of Power, Morally Gray Protagonist, Stealing Magic, Spirit Realm Encounters, Dangerous Bargains with Magic, Cursed Twins, Race Against Time, Sacrifice for Others, Anthropomorphic Spirits, Tyrantical Rulers, Surreal Landscapes
Read the first few pages of The Breath Borrower.
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-959123-09-5
eBook ISBN: 978-1-959123-08-8
Publication Year: First Edition, 2025
Publisher: LoreWeaver Press, LLC
Printed in USA

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