Raven Oak

The Bell Ringer & Other Holiday Tales began as a successful hardcover, full-color Kickstarter book featuring four holiday speculative fiction tales and over 30 paintings featuring characters & scenes from the stories, all by award-winning author & artist Raven Oak. Can the magic of the holidays save us all from our lack of empathy? In The Bell Ringer, a virus renders a town silent as the holidays approach. Apathy runs wild. Can a homeless bell...

This debut collection by multi-award-winning author and artist Raven Oak brings together fantastical stories from the past ten years of her career, ranging from gothic and urban fantasy to post-apocalyptic and steampunk tales. You'll find coffee-drinking ghosts, ever-changing faces, elemental spirits who both protect and harm, assassins, magical pockets, and snarky creatures in these ELEVEN fanciful fictions. Dragon Springs & Other Things contains...

Every time a bell rings, someone's going to die. Around Christmas, many towns and villages are full of wonder and magic, full of smiling people who live to spread seasonal joy. But in the dreary village of Dekwood, the midnight bells are ringing once again... The days are silent and the nights are filled with terror in the little village. Adults and children alike hide under their covers when the jingling bells sound. No one wishes to hear...

Once there were words like family and warmth, but when the Sun begins to die, words of power won't protect those who live on the planet's surface. Litalle sets out wandering Tarrah in hopes of finding food and warmth as the sun sets on another day. But as the cold comes rushing in, she finds a cave that might just keep her alive. The cave is not empty. Litalle is not alone. Will the risk to her safety pay off, or will she be doomed...

What do you get when you mix mystery and speculative fiction, then toss in the holidays for good measure? A mobster Santa, genetic hanky-panky, Victorian villages, time-travelling detectives, Krampus, eerie bell spirits, and more—this collection of short cross-genre fiction is the perfect counterpoint to traditional holiday reading! This collection stars four authors, each with their own distinct style. National bestselling author Maia Chance,...

When a mobster Santa dies, everyone's a suspect! What do you get when you mix an old Earth myth with mobsters and space ships? A locked room mystery with holiday trimmings involving the plucky crew of a scavenger ship. Captain Mark Barnes has but one request: keep his ship flying and his crew happy. But when someone from his past tears their way into the present, everyone on his ship becomes a murder suspect, including himself. Especially...

Once there were words like family and warmth--that is, before the sun began to die. Letalle struggles to wander across Tarrah in search of food and shelter. She also wanders in hopes of finding someone else alive. On a particularly cold afternoon, she finds a cave she hopes might save her from freezing to death as the sun sets on another dim day, but when she enters, she finds she's not alone. Someone or something else has been using the cave for...