Cozy literary fantasy with autumnal weather, forgotten libraries, and a dry wit that prefers a cup of tea to a war horn.
A. Lewis writes cozy literary fantasy with autumnal weather, forgotten libraries, and the kind of dry wit that prefers a cup of tea to a war horn. His novels live somewhere between Susanna Clarke's Piranesi, Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes, and TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea — atmospheric, contemplative, occasionally funny, always interested in the small impossible things hiding in everyday corners.
He is the author of the Threshold Archivists series — beginning with The House of Dead Leaves — and of standalone tales of weird fiction including The Chest of Stories and The Thief and the Rat. His work has been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese, and Swedish, and he lives where the leaves fall earliest.
A twenty-eight-year-old accountant stumbles upon a house no map records — a cozy literary fantasy in the neighborhood of The Starless Sea, Legends & Lattes, and The House in the Cerulean Sea.
Five interconnected tales where wonder hides in the everyday: a thief and her impeccably dressed rat, a wise being learning the value of company, a tiniest nagnome in a snowstorm, and more.
Meet Peludita: a rat of unusual size, sharp intellect, and impeccable manners. Alongside her human companion, this unlikely duo navigates a life of high-stakes thievery.
In a world where knowledge extends life, the rare few known as the Wise endure for centuries. Among them stands Vesper Stellaris: possibly the wisest of them all, and quite possibly the most frustrating.
Forgotten tales from a New England that remembers what others forgot — strange weather, stranger guests, and the slow accumulation of nights you can’t quite explain in the morning.
A first-person account of unraveling in a town that refuses to admit anything is wrong. Found pages, half-erased entries, and a narrator who isn’t sure what is still hers to remember.
A winter story for readers who suspect that some books read themselves back. Snow, candlelight, and a volume that didn’t ask to be returned.
Four works are moving toward first draft: new doors into the Archivists universe, a mist-wrapped castle, an Arctic expedition, and a bright seafaring adventure. Follow along now; release news and preorder links will appear here first.
Provisional title: The University of Ashen Snow. A return to the Threshold Archivists: snowbound halls, impossible scholarship, old doors, and the kind of quiet magic that makes a library feel dangerous.
A dark, mist-bound fantasy for readers who like haunted villages, impossible architecture, and castles that seem to be waiting for someone specific.
Provisional title: The Greenland Expedition. A 1930 Arctic voyage where the route is real, the blank spaces are not, and the map stops just before the story gets dangerous.
A warm, funny seafaring fantasy about a fearless princess, an old enemy of the crown, mercenaries who accidentally become family, and the long road to becoming a pirate.
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