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Christopher Mitchell

Christopher Mitchell

Completed Works

  • Echoes From The Aether
  • The Aether Universe
  • The AetherWar
  • Audiobooks
  • About the Author
  • Notes from the Field
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  • High Midnight Action Horror
  • The Nine Shadows: Chapter Twelve Dark Fantasy
  • The Swaying Canopy: Chapter Seven Literary Fiction
  • The Nine Shadows: Chapter Eight Dark Fantasy
  • The Swaying Canopy: Chapter Two Literary Fiction
  • At the End of All Things Dark Fantasy
  • Planting the Seeds of Intrigue reviews
  • The Ties That Blind: Chapter Two Echoes from the Aether

Echoes From The Aether

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Different Stories. Same Universe.

About the Universe

About The Author

Completed Works

Blood on the Blossoms

HAKADOTE, JAPAN: 1873 CE

GENRE: DARK FANTASY/HISTORICAL FICTION

In 1873 Japan, a powerful outsider descends into an unfamiliar world of ancient demons and codified honor. His mission: find and recover a stolen asset. But ulterior motives guide him, and his hopes of harnessing the power of gods lie in a small, ornamented box…one that simultaneously carries great power, and a crushing guilt.

Broken Spear: Part One

ROCKWOOD, MI 6287 BCE

GENRE: ACTION HORROR/HISTORICAL FICTION

A prehistoric hunter tracks large game across the frozen tundra of an ancient world. He stumbles upon the mutilated remnants of his quarry, along with footprints that are at once sinister and familiar. As one hunt ends, another, more terrifying one begins…

Broken Spear: Part Two

ROCKWOOD, MI 6287 BCE

GENRE: ACTION HORROR/HISTORICAL FICTION

Broken Spear gains ground on his hunted enemy. Though who is hunter–and who is the hunted–remains uncertain. As knife clashes with claw, only one can survive…

Crucible

BELLEVILLE, MI: 2073 CE

GENRE: HORROR NOIR/DARK FANTASY

Primacy agents Hammer and Anvil are out of the frying pan and into the fire. Anvil, gravely injured, tries to maintain consciousness while Hammer pleads over a silent radio for salvation. A voice answers, and the decision to trust it falls square on the shoulders of men with few options, fewer allies, and a trail of enemies in their wake.

The Culling

OPHIDION: 2058 CE

GENRE: COSMIC HORROR/ SCI-FI ACTION-ADVENTURE

Easton McKenna is in over his head. As he and the rest of a Primacy task force prepare to eradicate a powerful enemy, the world below them erupts into chaos. Eldritch nightmares ascend and consume the echelons, and Easton’s mentor–Aegis–is grievously wounded. Now Easton must trust a stranger–and himself–to save what remaining men have survived the carnage.

The Girl in the Greenhouse

ROCKWOOD, MI: 1995 CE

GENRE: DARK ROMANCE/COSMIC HORROR

James is plagued by a terrible gift. While the world around him twists and undulates to reveal people for who they truly are, the course of his life has led him to seek shelter with the worst of men. Now in league with grifters, James encounters a house with its own malevolent life force. As the presence tries to claw its way into his soul, a woman with gifts similar to his own promises answers to questions that have haunted James his whole life.

What she reveals will transcend time and space, and leave James forever changed.

The Harbinger Project

RUSSIA, 1974 CE

GENRE: SCI-FI HORROR

The Cold War rages. Civilizations of East and West vie for political dominance in a rapidly changing world. One scientist leaves behind a journal, chronicling a hope to create the perfect soldier–one that could change the tide in Russian favor. What they unleash upon the eastern expanse, instead, is something both predatory and uncontainable.

Macombe’s Burden

GENRE: MILITARY FICTION

Macombe returns to civilian life a broken man. Haunted by the memory of a friend he failed to save, Macombe now attends a survivor’s group in a local gymnasium. While the soldier ruminates, an unexpected visitor arrives. Now Macombe must confront a buried truth and discover that sometimes the greatest enemy of man is his own guilt.

New Origin

CHICAGO, IL 2072 CE

GENRE: SCI-FI HORROR

Scripture has opened a doorway between worlds. Fueled by a hunger for knowledge–and funded by an cryptic benefactor known only as ‘Shadow’–Scripture must rapidly discover what lies beyond her created portal before she’s discovered by her superiors.

Nighthawks

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO: 2003 CE

GENRE: LITERARY NOIR

Sam Hawthorne basks in the nostalgia of memory while tailing a Faction Elder. His longing for the past is mirrored by two dreamers in the diner booth behind him. Their passion, and Sam’s pursuit of memory, are nearly as tangible as the target in front of him, and he longs to leave behind a world of surgical LED’s for the forgotten warmth of amber luminescence.

The Nine Shadows

PICTLAND, CALEDONIA: 378 CE

GENRE: HISTORICAL FANTASY/ LITERARY HORROR

Two Roman legionnaires loyal to the Primacy travel north to Pictland in what will one day become Scotland. An unknown force terrorizes the countryside, leaving bodies in its wake. Now, Marcus and Tiberius must discover the origins of the occupying malevolence while protecting a young boy with a shrouded past.

The Nine Shadows Chapter List

  • Chapter One
  • Chapter Two
  • Chapter Three
  • Chapter Four
  • Chapter Five
  • Chapter Six
  • Chapter Seven
  • Chapter Eight
  • Chapter Nine
  • Chapter Ten
  • Chapter Eleven
  • Chapter Twelve

Pariah

ROCKWOOD, MI: 2074 CE

GENRE: HORROR NOIR

Trevor Morrigan enlists the aide of an enemy to track down an insidious creature with a penchant for human prey. What begins as a hunt for justice slowly descends into a gristly quest for vengeance. Soon, Trevor must discover for himself what separates men from monsters, and how the line between them blurs when coupled with a craving even monsters fear.

Revelations

STONE MOUNTAIN, GA: 2046 CE

GENRE: APOCALYPTIC HORROR

A new America emerges from the ashes of war. A man and his brother struggle to survive in the wilderness of a world ravaged by plague and nationwide blackouts. One carries secrets from the other, and their revelations will shatter the fragile truce they’ve maintained to keep their focus on what matters most…

Surivival

Weekly Releases

The Swaying Canopy

SILVERSPRING, WY 2036 CE

GENRE: LITERARY FICTION/ROMANCE

Oliver Ketch is cursed. While he spends his days tilling his fields and sowing crops, he recognizes that something is missing from his life; something he’s avoided to prevent the curse from taking. Then a stranger comes crashing through the walls he’s raised to protect himself and those around him. Now Oliver must balance his newfound friendship with the dread of fulfilling a prophecy that’s plagued his family for generations.

  • Chapter One
  • Chapter Two
  • Chapter Three
  • Chapter Four
  • Chapter Five
  • Chapter Six
  • Chapter Seven
  • Chapter Eight

The Ties That Blind

NEW YORK CITY, NY: 2074 CE

GENRE: URBAN FANTASY/ DARK NOIR

Meet Sickle: Primacy Enforcer and Gun-For-Hire. If you need it dead, dismembered, or set on fire, she’s the one to call.

However, her brash attitude and penchant for chaos are shaken to their cores when a member of her agency is brutally murdered by eldritch nightmares. Now she and her partner, Parchment, must track down leads and shake a few trees to see what information falls into their laps. What the pair discover is a sinister plot to oust both sides of the power struggle and make way for a new, more terrifying threat to the fragile peace of the Aether.

  • Chapter One
  • Chapter Two
  • Chapter Three
  • Chapter Four
  • Chapter Five

Music and Movie Reviews

Kardashev: Alunea

Planting The Seeds of Intrigue

  • High Midnight Action Horror
  • The Nine Shadows: Chapter Twelve Dark Fantasy
  • The Swaying Canopy: Chapter Seven Literary Fiction
  • The Nine Shadows: Chapter Eight Dark Fantasy
  • The Swaying Canopy: Chapter Two Literary Fiction
  • At the End of All Things Dark Fantasy
  • Planting the Seeds of Intrigue reviews
  • The Ties That Blind: Chapter Two Echoes from the Aether

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