Bibliophiles

Cosmic horror about book lovers who learn too much.

WELCOME TO THE LIBRARIES

Some books are read. Some books read back.

Beatrix Clark trusts books more than people. Books don't lie to you, don't crowd you, don't fill your head with noise you never asked to hear, and Beatrix hears everything. A telepath's life is quieter with a wall of paper between her and the world.

Then she finds a book that trusts no one.

The Garden and the Well is the volume that doesn't exist. Scholars have chased it for centuries, and the ones who found it hide away to understand it.

The book whispers. It bargains. It knows exactly how lonely you are, and it has been waiting a very long time for someone like Beatrix—someone special.

Pulled out of their college town with her influencer roommate Claudia Bain, Beatrix falls through a doorway into the Rim, the borderland between our world and the devouring dark of the Lands Beyond. Here the libraries are fortresses. Robed librarian-monks called the Brothers of Clmal keep the lamps lit and guard the Veil, the only thing standing between everything you love and the Lightless caged behind it.

The thing inside the book wants that Veil torn down.

Inside this series you'll find:

  • A telepathic outsider who'd rather be alone and a book that made sure she was

  • Living books that whisper, bargain, and wear the faces of the dead

  • Libraries as fortresses, and monks who die keeping the lamps lit

  • Cosmic dread braided through ordinary anxieties: grief, group projects, and the phone in your hand

  • An unlikely partnership forged in a place that wants them both dead

  • Knowledge as the deadliest addiction of all

Read the series in order:

1) Library of Lessons & Lies — A lost professor. A book that doesn't exist. A doorway out of a dead librarian's stacks and into the Rim — where Beatrix learns that the thing hunting her already knows how she thinks.

Book Two — The Feast of the Lightless (future project). The doors don't reach everywhere. Some places you have to fly to. Beatrix and Claudia are going to Abbots Manor, and what waits in Claudia's family is worse than anything on the Rim.

Before the Library, there was BLOTS

The Bibliophiles didn't start in a college town. They started in a collection of short stories called BLOTS: 9 Tales of Ghosts, Monsters, & Bad Decisions, the oldest layer of this universe, where the first seeds were planted before anyone knew what they'd grow into.

Three of those tales are load-bearing. Read Library of Lessons & Lies and you'll recognize them. Read them first, and you'll see the trap being built.

Old Jack — The first cursed volume in the mythos, and the first lesson: the book always asks for something back.

Signature — Jenny Fields makes a deal with a figure called the Collector. The terms are generous. The price is deferred. Consequences in this world are patient, and they always come to collect.

Abbots Manor — A silent town in Glen Coast, Maryland. Nobody talks about it. That's the arrangement.

BLOTS is where it all started. You don't need it to follow the Bibliophiles — but once you've read it, you'll never read them the same way again.