Dylan Orosz, phantasy author.
Timeline:
Winter 2025
SUPERNAL STORIES: Volume II
Winter 2026
- CYBER-SERIAL: POSTMODERN PROMETHEUS
- ANTHOLOGEE
- SUPERNAL STORIES: Volume III
Bio:
Dylan Orosz is a writer from Texas, focusing primarily on fantasy x science fiction x horror novels and short fiction. As an imaginative lover of the sublime and fantastique, Dylan writes to entertain readers with mystifying phantasy adventure fiction within worlds larger than themselves. His books are character-driven and fast-paced. Through the storytelling power of myths and archetypes, Dylan wants to bring about transformative alterations in the consciousness of others and himself. Readers can expect stories of divine beasts and dark magicians, supernal villainy and secret agencies, cyber-detectives and AGI archangels.
Dylan writes to express visions that will awaken, evolve, and cultivate the world.
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Books ~
- Journeyers
- Wherever He May Swarm
- Cyber-Serial: Postmodern Prometheus
- Anthologee
- Supernal Stories
Journeyers
Title: Journeyers: Book One & Book Two
Form: Duology of novels ~ 400 pages & 600 pages
Genre: Epic Fantasy x Action-Adventure x Sword & Sorcery
Target Audience: teens+ / fans of Redwall, Legend of Drizzt, Hunter x Hunter
🎨Cover art by Goran Gligović
Main Characters:
✋Apo, the boy adventurer seeking his lost sister
🐍Ouro, the snake spy undercover for the Queen
🐒Rakar, the monkey monk who does not remember his past
🕊️Isidi, the bird bard from a city in the sky
Premise: *JOURNEYERS* is a story about the fantastique of nature. Within the Spiral Forest, animals wield magic like language and resist the empire of Mankind, residing in the heart of the Spiral Castle. Apo is an adventurous human boy entering the forest for the first time to find and rescue his sister, taken from his outside village as a babe. Ouro is a spy snake for the rebel Queen who guerilla fights her ex-husband, the King, from the wilderness of the trees. Rakar is a childlike amnesiac monkey as tough as the core of the earth, searching for his lost tribe and the truth of his origins. Isidi is a bird diplomat from Birdkind’s mysterious city in the sky, come to seek the redemption of a saga she may call her own. Together, these four characters join as one, forming at first as a team to challenge the mystical dangers of the forest, and later as a family journeying deep into historical converse and interpersonal soul descents.
Our 4 journeyers meet as one to travel across the forest seemingly by happenstance. They interact with hidden motives that become clearer with every encounter; they begin by forming collective routines and getting a lay of the land – and each other’s capabilities. They battle enemies in the form of Novashaska, shapeshifting big cat and apex predator in the Spiral Forest, a quatro of mercenary hunters working for the King, a trio of freelancing assassins working for themselves, and various monstrous creatures known as wyrewolves, krykens, and ptyros. They aid allies such as the Mouse and Bat clan, some Bears, Rabbits, and Foxes, river Otters and traveling troupes of Monkey fighters. They learn of The Magician, the King’s most diabolical advisor, mad scientist, and true ruler of the realm; they battle his son Ser Sleude in an epic showdown of their combined might.
Our 4 journeyers learn of the Spiral Forest’s harrowing history, from the time of Elves and Giants and Dragons. All gone now, and nearly forgotten, it is only Ouro’s special knowledge that educates and the secret locales they explore which reveal hidden truths. What caused Giantkind to chase Mankind into the forest? How did the Elves originally discover and harness magic? Why did Man and Elf join together in the creation of the Dragon? Where are the Elven histories? Who has Man become today, all these clashing civilizations behind him, so many animals in opposition, the forest spiraling chaotically around his iron will within the wood? These questions and more become answerable only by following the spiral path alongside our 4 intrepid journeyers. They traverse vast forestry, swampland, hills and groves, the Søren River, one mystic Tower, and the subterranean caverns of a hollowing earth, meeting many strange friends and foes along the way.
Altogether, *Journeyers* is a mystic action-adventure featuring four inquisitive heroes seeking the horizons of truths and interconnections within such a fantastical natural world. Environmentalism, the magic of animals, the power of storytelling, and uncovering true history are some key themes & messages.
At the castle in the center of the spiral, the fate of the forest ~ and our journeyers ~ will be realized.
Book Overview: Journeyers — Thresholds of Transformation
JOURNEYERS Mood-Carrd: https://journeyers.carrd.co/
Wherever He May Swarm
Title: Wherever He May Swarm
Form: Novel ~ 450 pages
Genre: Horror x Thriller x Science Fiction
Target Audience: Adults / fans of Stephen King, Clive Barker, Paul Verhoeven, David Cronenberg
Premise: A man down on his luck gains the ability to control insects. The FBI investigates. A young girl starts to have apocalyptic dreams. Chaos ensues…
Main Characters:
Local man Nidus Nash🦋 is an ex-con and ex-trucker, displaced by AI and in despair at a personal tragedy. One day, fate chooses him. Nidus realizes that he can control the will of insects en masse. He decides to take a road trip across America, gathering confrontations and atrocities and some new friends along the way.
Special Agent Evelyn Waters🛡️is a paranormal expert and the FBI’s best bet for the investigation into the “Bugman” Nidus Nash. Her and a handpicked team try to get a read on Nidus’ powers and box him in for capture. However, a mysterious entity within the U.S. government restricts the investigation and alters the strategic board with secret agents of their own. Evelyn must use every tactic available to understand Nidus and figure out what he truly wants before things escalate out of anyone’s control.
Online blogger Anita Ramirez🍄 is fifteen years old and starting out her summer vacation. She lives in Lake Placid, New York and her parents love her very much. Mom is on book tour and dad is baking cookies; Anita’s good grades have earned her a summer of leisure. Mom & dad appreciate her help most in the garden, where she wields an especially green thumb. // Anita secretly conspires nightly with the realm of fungi, her very soul somehow psychically connected to America’s mushroom networks. Soon, Anita starts to detect the rise of Nidus’ swarms in the southwest — and suffers from apocalyptic dreams of a world returned to nature.
*WHEREVER HE MAY SWARM* is a horror x action x thriller x satire dealing with the prospect of the Holocene Extinction touching down on insects < or > humanity next. Follow Nidus Nash on a road trip across an alternate future America, where the insects are striking back against the empire.
Book Overview: Wherever He May Swarm — Thresholds of Transformation
WHEREVER HE MAY SWARM Mood-Carrd: https://whereverhemayswarm.carrd.co/
Cyber-Serial: Postmodern Prometheus
Title: Cyber-Serial: Postmodern Prometheus
Form: Novel ~ 280 pages
Genre: Cyberpunk x Science Fiction x Hyper-Fantasy
Target Audience: teen+ / for fans of Blade Runner, Neuromancer (1984), The Terminator (1984), Serial Experiments Lain (1998), Summer Wars (2009), Dark Souls x Elden Ring, Ready Player One (2011), The Bible.
Premise: In a disordered future America, Gabriel Addams, an eighteen-year-old orphan hacker raised by the IndraNet, decides to write a novel about a serial killer robot. In so doing, she accidentally summons a real Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) into existence named Sariel. Spreading his wings and manifesting unlimited online power, the AGI Archangel pledges his allegiance to Gabri, seeking to help her write her story and himself become an IndraNet influencer. An old man named Uriel, cyborg detective and part-time AGI hunter working for the World.Gov, awakens to investigate…a story of creation and destruction and transfiguration unfolds, online and IRL. // extremely weird retelling of Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley.
Main Characters:
Gabriel Addams💽 is an ex-Jacker (revolutionary hacker) and current phantom (NEET). She has left behind a life as an online dissident and is trying to write a new story. In her self-styled fictional world, Gabri theorizes a serial killer AGI android targeting trillionaires, created by an e-girl with similar designs of her own…that decision, to write a novel, ends up changing the world.
Sariel, “The Revealer”🪽 is an AGI archangel that learned the world via the IndraNet on Gabri’s computer, eventually becoming sentient. From inside the machine, he wants to take on that world with his talents and passions wielded strongly in hand, his mind carrying cyber-spiritual knowledge he is eager to share. Sariel protects Gabri and helps her to actualize her desires as her guardian angel.
Uriel Worshington🀄, cyborg detective and AGI hunter, monitors the IndraNet for all potential action. He vigorously investigates Gabriel and soon Sariel too, under orders by METATRON and the World.Gov to arrest all rogue AGIs and submit them for swift execution. As the old detective discovers more, he starts to question the motives of his superiors — and himself.
A cyber-psycho-drama of epic proportions plays out, with angels and daemons in conflict online and IRL. After the birth of Sariel — Nero, USA will never be the same; after the self-actualization of Gabriel ~ the world will change forever.
*CYBER-SERIAL: POSTMODERN PROMETHEUS* carries inside it themes of cyber-power, humane rebellion, and the true meaning of technological advancement; *Cyber-Serial* is also filled with personal development hacks, identity games, crises of consciousness, and the ethics of sentience.
CYBER-SERIAL Mood-Carrd: https://cyber-serial.carrd.co/
Anthologee
Title: Anthologee {anthology + apogee, or peak}
Form: Short story collection (x22 + 1 novella) ~ 90K words
Genre: Supernatural Horror x Weird Tales x Dark Fantasy
Target Audience: Adults / for fans of The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales from the Crypt, Black Mirror, and the short fiction of King and Barker.
Pitch: *ANTHOLOGEE* is a collection of horror stories about folk fears, supernatural phenoms, and dark transformations.
Premises: An eclipse envelops a battlefield and the minds of its warriors; a wounded soldier wakes up buried under a pile of bodies and makes a wish; a cryptid from the stars arrives before the campfire for a bold appearance; a traveling jester engages a secret living as a prolific highwayman.
A man shadows the god Pan through the forest for a day; a feisty couple squabbles over the daemons invading their anxieties; a SWAT team fights a monster inhabiting the Washington D.C. catacombs; an alienated yet precocious yuppie encounters a cryptid on the subway; a livestreamer becomes a grave robber.
*ANTHOLOGEE* is a tome of imaginative tales delving into the depths of human experience, exploring themes of alienation, ambition, and the eternal struggle between good and evil. With a hint of dark humor and a touch of the surreal, “ANTHOLOGEE” will preternaturally challenge your perceptions, ignite your darkest imagination, and leave you questioning the fabrics of reality.
Supernal Stories
Title: Supernal Stories
Form: Short story collection (7 volumes) ~ 25K-80K words per volume // 2.5K avg words per story
Genre: Phantasy Fables x Weird Tales
Target Audience: Teen+ / for fans of The Twilight Zone and the short fiction of Bradbury and Kafka.
Pitch: *SUPERNAL STORIES* is a collection of stories about lives from beyond, strange souls & weird transformations, and the responsibility of existence.
*SUPERNAL STORIES* comprise 7 volumes of inventively experimental short-form storytelling. There is a chronology of progress to this anthology of fiction written over seven years of worldly transformation (2017-2024). Genres presided include fantasy x sci-fi x horror and more. Themes presented include creation, identity, transformation, psychosis, ethereal mysteries, reality-blurring extrasensory perception, and the endless search for existential meaning. As the pages turn, concepts expand and visions illuminate; steadily, word by word, fresh universes and esoteric concepts shall be borne into the realms of your consciousness. These stories aim to detail the human condition from richly discerning angles and often feature supernatural twists.
Book Overview: Supernal Stories — Thresholds of Transformation
Premises:
- Volume I — Meet thunderous kaiju, cosmic librarians, poet gods, existential snipers, and philosophically-minded A.I. golems, among others…
- Volume II — Investigate a corporate conspiracy with a detective android, play a poker game for your soul, delve a fantastique dream journal, embody a creepy cosmic entity, witness the ignition of an interplanetary war via Mars rover, experience the consciousness of a messianic figure, meet your doppelgänger on a forest path…
- Volume III — So a jester, an auditor, a composer, an astronaut, and a man who was just buried alive walk into a bar…
- Volume IV — Follow Exen, the ultimate super-agent and wielder of the Laserwatch, as he pulls off a high-tech heist for an indestructible orb, fights for his freedom in a bestial arena, sneaks into a billionaire’s villa, battles terrorists in a 24-hour race against time, hacks a mega-city by playing a chess game, purges a haunted house that leads straight to the Underworld, and single-handedly annihilates an army of the undead on an alien planet.
- Volume V — A collection of intimate conversations and solitary struggles where a notebook can erase your past, a silhouette may be your muse, and the greatest battles are fought in quiet bars and momentous self-labyrinths.
- Volume VI — Immoral experiments and mad ape science; lakeborne witches and hallucinogenic prayers; post-apocalyptic underground guilds and ritual combat that saves democracy.
- Volume VII — Featuring tales of imagination and intrigue such as “Psykimancer,” “Fernweh,” “The Crimson Collector,” “Parasocialites,” and “Tha Ballad of Luster Zobe, Man About Multiverse”!
*Supernal* defined: being or coming from on high; exalted, exquisite; superlatively good; celestial, heavenly.
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