SwampWitch | Dark Fantasy and Retro Horror

About the Substack

Follow the life and times of a speculative fiction writer fertilized by Web 1.0 and addled with synth-stained story ideas.

Come for the writer talk, stay for the serialised fantasy novels.

Free Subscription Benefits

  • All my public posts plus serialised chapters of epic fantasy novel, The Obsidian Druid

Paid Subcription Benefits

  • Subscriber-only posts and full archive - includes weekly chapters of The Scarlet Warrior: Book Two of The Age of Aikana
  • Ebook: Blood and Teeth - An exclusive subscriber-only collection of dark fiction
  • Ebooks: Arcanoforge: Midnight Metropolis (sci-fi horror), The Obsidian Druid (epic fantasy)

Paid Subscription Plans

  • ยฃ30 a year
  • ยฃ3.50 a month

About Caroline Barnard-Smith

Award-winning horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer from the UK. Collects haunted clowns. Paints it black. Author of The Obsidian Druid and Arcanoforge: Midnight Metropolis.

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