About The Stories
Olivia Disparo’s horror stories present intense, dramatic journeys where beauty is found alongside the grim. Sci-fi blends with fantasy, mythology, and history inside of intricate plots. With a down-to-earth approach to epic storytelling, readers remain close to the vivid cast of each tale.
Content Warning: Stories are 18+ and intended for mature audiences. Books may contain strong sexuality, references to true crime or history, and/or disturbing, upsetting themes. Reader discretion is advised.
Relax in a dark corner. Enjoy a long dark tale on a long dark night.
Titles
Native Blood
HORROR SPACE OPERA (HORROR SCIFI-FANTASY)
(Novel Series) In the far future, a population of humans on an exploratory mission from Earth crash land on a planet full of blood-drinking immortals. Unable to return to space, humanity finds peace with the natives. Complications arise when a rabid infection spreads from their mingling, and violent cults emerge determined to exterminate their human guests.
Elias Pendergast leads Silatem, a sovereign legacy hunting company with global powers, and defends both humans and natives from the rabid threat. Native Blood follows a wide cast as the cults stir new trouble. After 1000 years, humanity’s goal remains to return to Earth.
☼ Volume 01: NATIVE BLOOD
Volume 02: BLOOD OASIS
Volume 03: DARK KINGDOM
# of Volumes: ~13 Novels
Isolated Together
HORROR ROMANCE (VAMPIRE FANTASY)
(Novel Duology) Leah is a vampire hunter enhanced by the U.S. government with immortal genes. She’s been a hunter since conception, and operates under an assumed identity as she executes stealth operations in the undead underworld. After a fellow hunter is brutalized by the master of Coven Forty-Eight and left paralyzed, Leah’s agency tasks her with locating the criminal and position him for capture.
Inner turmoil at the agency leads to a personal breakdown. Paired with Leah’s growing closeness to her target, as ordered, the unthinkable occurs—she develops sympathy for the enemy. Her sympathy grows into attraction and worse, it’s reciprocated by the master. In response to the breach of conduct, Leah faces backlash from her agency.
COMING NEXT
Book 01: ISOLATED TOGETHER
Book 02: HEART OF A KILLER
Lessons From A Fallen Empire
APOCALYPTIC HIGH FANTASY
(Comic Series) Crown Prince Dagan of the Sky, child heir to the magical Sky Empire, awakens after a devastating alien attack and finds his planet in ruins, sapped of magical energy aside from the deformed, violent spells cast by a population transformed into hostile ghouls. He’s rescued by fellow survivors to discover that he’s the only one still alive from the Sky family and that his powers are intact. With assistance from his new friends, Dagan learns to control his powers as a force to rebuild.
While acclimating to new conditions, Dagan must face dark memories of his final days with his mother, Empress Lil of the Sky, coming to terms with her controversial legacy. Despite his critical power in a fallen world, his name and ties aren’t forgotten by all. In addition, the same evil that annihilated his home lurks in the shadows, following his trail.
COMING NEXT
Volume 01 (13 Episodes)
Volume 02 (13 Episodes)
# of Volumes: TBD
Peace For Nebiria
DARK HIGH FANTASY
(Novel) Lord Ulrid Tyrdragen is a venerated mystical hero residing in the realm of Nebiria, a world beyond worlds with the authority to intervene in the affairs of other realities. During a time of peace after the defeat of a encroaching evil, disturbing reports lead Ulrid and his party into a protected forest, where he discovers the massacre of an important mana-producing fairy population.
Unsettled by the possible reappearance of a threat he’d thought eliminated, Ulrid launches an investigation, enlisting the help of a fairy agency and an old ally who once served the enemy.
# of Books: 1 Novel
Kaldr Fólk
MYTHOLOGICAL HORROR FANTASY
(Anthology) A viking warrior is turned draugr after his violent death during a raid. He’s also cursed by his killer, a foreign concubine that he slayed in the same moment. Laden with a strange burden from a faraway land, the draugr’s mere existence of being haunted by the phantom woman triggers an unraveling of world mythologies. Turmoil arrives for his Norse gods.
Odin, master of the Wild Hunt, discovers that a usurper has stolen his seat during the confusion, and wreaks havoc throughout the world and other mythologies. Powerless to stop the thief with his divine limits, the Allfather tasks the shamed draugr to follow the Wild Hunt wherever it appears, and restore order before all is lost.
STATUS: Target TBD, Revising First Story/Planning
# of Stories: TBD
Crystal Hearts
DARK HIGH FANTASY (ADULT)
(Novella Series/Adult) Celestia Dread and her twin brother Cyan hail from the Dread family, powerful contenders for the world throne of Crystal Empire. The family’s held the seat for many generations thanks to their natural talent for the rare skill of enchantment. Difficult to overcome, the Dreads maintain streaks of victories against their challengers.
Celestia and Cyan’s father, the emperor, falls victim to magical corruption and stirs violent unrest. The twins are born with duplicate crystal shards in their hearts, pieces of the relic meant to grant the emperor immunity, an omen for his demise. Stripped of power and defenseless as a coup arises, their father tries to murder the twins for their shards but is killed by Cyan to defend Celestia. The twins are spirited away. Years later, Cyan resurfaces to become emperor, though falls to the same corruption and downfall. Nightmares stir in Celestia but she avoids the call until mysterious outsider pushes her to act.
STATUS: Rewriting Two Entries/Planning
# of Entries: TBD
Other Stories
☼ The Second Sight of Halford James (Short Story): An ordinary man discovers he can see and vanquish demons.
☼ Coven Forty-Eight (Companion Anthology to Isolated Together): A collection of short stories about Coven Forty-Eight.
☼ Nyctophilia (Anthology, Series Tentative): Themed horror shorts.