Lost Story
Studios

Stories from somewhere else.Worlds near enough to almost remember.

A candlelit old studio library with books, framed paintings, a piano and moonlight at the window.

A place for stories and strange beauty.

A home for fantasy fiction, books, films, illustration, folklore, fairy tales and curious things, shaped by wonder, shadow, old myths and places just beyond the familiar.

Featured Stories

Stories from forgotten roads, hidden kingdoms and the stranger edges of imagination.

A dark forest clearing with a hanging bell and warm lantern light.

The Hollow Bell

Dark Fantasy Novel

A small lantern-lit figure among pumpkins and woodland shadows.

The Lantern Keeper

Children's Picture Book

A crooked house on a storm-dark hill under strange evening light.

The Crooked Country

Fantasy Fiction

Elsewhere

Places Beyond the Familiar

Four glimpses into worlds that feel distant at first, then somehow almost remembered.

A lamplit cottage deep inside an old forest.

Beneath the Boughs

Folklore, fairy tales, lamplight and the old hush beneath the trees.

A submerged gothic structure in blue-green ocean darkness.

Below the Tide

Drowned places, blue-green depths and wonders sleeping beneath the water.

A glowing old theater tent under night lights.

After the Curtain

Faded theatres, warm footlights and strange marvels lingering in the dark.

A dark spacecraft crossing a moonlit sky over distant hills.

Distant Signal

Midnight skies, impossible transmissions and something answering far away.

From the Journal

On Stories and Strange Things

Essays on fantasy, dark fantasy, folklore, fairy tales, film, illustration and the stranger corners of storytelling.

A narrow forest path fading into shadow.

What Is Dark Fantasy?

A moth illustration on aged paper.

Why Forests Feel Different in Fairy Tales

An abandoned garden tea table lit by warm lanterns beside a path disappearing into the trees.

When Whimsy Becomes Unsettling

Antique bookshelf with old books, a lantern, key, and crow.

From the Shelves

There Are Still Places Left to Find.

Behind worn spines and upon forgotten shelves, old stories are still waiting. Myths, fairy tales, strange histories, lost kingdoms and worlds that have not yet remembered us.