And I In Flames

A dark fantasy novel by Christopher Leland.

"The dim sun made a labyrinth of the forest gloom, stretching out between the mountains like a deep green pit of death."

Christopher Leland is a writer inspired by the works of nature, Dostoyevsky, Thoreau, and Tolkien. He writes to fill others and himself with life and to entertain. He hopes his books are like the cold kiss of winter. The feeling that calls us to seek beauty in suffering and to stoke the flames within for warmth. He lives in Maine with his Fiancé and Dog.

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The Work

Selected Novels

And I In Flames (TBA)

Novel

And I In Flames (TBA)

Artyr is cursed. He seeks his long lost love, and an answer for his suffering. Why did she leave him? Why does he hunger for blood? What are the eyes in the trees? A dark fantasy novel of redemption, love, and the violence we hide.

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A Great Beast Rising (TBA)

Novel

A Great Beast Rising (TBA)

Peter owns a Rorschach factory he inherited from his wife's family. The shadows grow long over his suburban life, and something strange begins to wriggle in the blue of his iris. A novel about the demons we keep.

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"Though I long to be with my love in the trees the moon has pulled me under now I cling to these silver streams that lead me farther from her"

— Christopher Leland
Christopher Leland Writing

Fiction rooted in the American wilderness.

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