✦ Founding Author
V. Ashton
Founding author and editor of Portal Avalon. Writes dark literary fiction, mythology essays, and psychological horror. 16+ published stories across the four Realms — with a focus on betrayal, manipulation, and the unreliable narrator.
✺ Contributing Author
N. Vane
Contributing fiction author. Writes forbidden-desire narratives and Gothic romance threaded with danger — coercive intimacy, institutional betrayal, and the moment ordinary trust becomes a weapon. 16+ published stories.
Contributing Author
R. Carver
Marital fiction in the literary-realist tradition. Slow architectures of betrayal, second apartments, and the discovery scene treated as opening rather than climax. 2 published stories in Betrayal & Secrets.
Contributing Author
A. Voss
Atmospheric dark fiction across two registers: haunted architecture and anonymous invitation. Stories in which the room has already decided what will happen. 2 published stories spanning Mystical and Desire.