~ my second author diary: pitching my horror story collection, ANTHOLOGEE.
Coming soon! ~ May 2026
Walkthrough pitch of ANTHOLOGEE, my debut horror collection arriving May 2026. Twenty-three tales of eclipses and nightmares, weirdo shamans and killer puppets, lovelorn witches and sentimental sorcerers, a jester who plays his victims like instruments, and a field trip to a crash-landed UFO.
In this Author Diary, I tour the official Anthologee website. Introduce the concept, talk through my biggest inspirations, and pitch every single story across both volumes — PRIMORDIO and MUNDIMANIA — including the centerpiece novella Psireskin.
🔗 EXPLORE THE FULL SITE → https://anthologee.dylanorosz.live/
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ABOUT ANTHOLOGEE
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Anthologee = anthology + apogee, or peak.
A loosely interconnected collection of 23 short stories (~93,000 words), conceived as one unit from the beginning. Inspired by Clive Barker’s BOOKS OF BLOOD and Rod Serling’s NIGHT GALLERY — a storyteller’s core aesthetic spread boldly across a variety of tales meant to satisfy every yearning of a diabolical nature.
Volume I — PRIMORDIO: ancient soils whetted by blood. Eclipses, gods, myths, beginnings & endings. Nine short stories plus the novella PSIRESKIN — an Interpol agent and an art thief trapped overnight in an English village overrun by summoned daemons.
Volume II — MUNDIMANIA: thirteen modernized tales of brutal malevolence and inspirited occult chicanery. Classrooms, catacombs, ill-fated connections, mundane and inhumane.
Genre: Horror × Dark Fantasy × Weird Fiction
For fans of:
Clive Barker, Stephen King, The Twilight Zone, Tales From the Crypt, Bloodborne, Berserk
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CHAPTERS
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00:00 — Intro & welcome
6:35 — Introduction
18:24 — Volume I: Primordio
18:56 — “Godblink” x “Behewrit” x “Zobe”
24:35 — “Panidiot”
27:05 — “Shibboleth x Egregore”
30:35 — “The Ballad of Grimjest”
31:43 — “Angælien”
33:55 — “Gaols”
37:07 — “Breadking”
41:00 — Psireskin
52:52 — Volume II: Mundimania start
55:33 — “Operation Terror Eviction”
57:04 — “How to Be a Gnome: An Impractical Guide”
57:48 — “Shiva x Kali”
1:05:20 — “Benji & Huck”
1:09:07 — “Heene”
1:12:38 — “Our Accursed Arsenal”
1:15:39 — “The 176 People You Become Before God”
1:22:38 — “Devilcry”
1:24:07 — “Puppetmeisters”
1:30:20 — “Subwayhead”
1:32:57 — “Nightmarish” x “Strawberry Meadow” x “A Better World”
1:38:17 — Outro
1:40:30 — Cover Prototypes
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Dylan Orosz is a writer from Texas focused on fantasy × science fiction × horror novels and short fiction. Through the storytelling power of myths and archetypes, Dylan writes to bring about transformative alterations in the consciousness of others and himself.
Published & forthcoming works:
Journeyers: Book One (epic fantasy) — Summer 2025
Journeyers: Book Two (epic fantasy) — Summer 2025
Supernal Stories: Volume I (weird fiction) — Fall 2025
Wherever He May Swarm (horror-satire) — Fall 2025
Supernal Stories: Volume II (weird fiction) — Winter 2025
Cyber-Serial: Postmodern Prometheus (cyberpunk) — Spring 2026
Anthologee (horror anthology) — Q2 2026
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CONNECT
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🌐 Website: https://dylanorosz.com/
🎮 Itch.io: https://zsoro.itch.io/
🐦 Twitter: https://x.com/finalboyo
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