Obsidian Gate Press LLC
Where Dark Stories Outlive the Light
We are a dark fiction and urban fantasy publisher for readers who crave more than comfort. At Obsidian Gate Press, we open doors to stories that walk the alleyways, haunt the shadows, and linger long after the final page. Our motto is simple, and it is a promise: We Publish What Endures.
Who We Are
Obsidian Gate Press LLC is an independent dark fiction publisher built for readers who live in the shadows between genres. We are a boutique press, not a factory line, and every title we take on is chosen because it carries weight—because it has the power to haunt, to provoke, and to endure.
We publish dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, and urban fiction with a serious literary edge—work that walks the knife-edge between genres and refuses to play safe. We are drawn to haunted cities, backroom deals, blood-red skies, and futures built in the shadows of abandoned empires. If it lingers like a memory or a bruise, it belongs here.
As the home publisher of Trai’Quan’s work—including Second World, Gangsta Grip, Darkness Falls, and Alibi: Unshakable—we are committed to championing voices that carve out their own territory and refuse to fade. Our tagline is more than a line on a cover; We Publish What Endures is the standard every manuscript must meet.
What We Publish
Dark Fantasy
Stories that slip beneath the skin. We publish dark fantasy that examines violence, grief, obsession, and survival without flinching—work that stares into the void and finds a human face looking back, then asks what price power demands.
Urban Fantasy
Magic woven through concrete and neon. Our urban fantasy titles move through city streets, subway tunnels, and rooftop edges, blending mythology and the mundane into something raw, immediate, and electric—where the boundary between spell and survival is razor-thin.
Urban Fiction
Unvarnished, voice-driven narratives rooted in the realities of the block. We champion stories that emerge from lived experience, navigating loyalty, betrayal, hustle, and hope where the stakes are always high and every choice carries a cost.
Dark Sci-Fi
Futures carved from shadow. From near-future nightmares to strange alternate histories, our dark science fiction challenges systems, reimagines power, and asks what it costs to build a different world in the dark—and what must be sacrificed to survive it.
Across every imprint and subgenre, we look for work that carries a distinct voice, a sharpened sense of place, and the courage to say what safer stories will not. If the work is too strange, too intense, or too uncompromising for the middle of the road, it may be perfect for us.
Our Mission
Our mission is simple and relentless: to publish dark fiction that outlasts the moment. We are not interested in safe bets or disposable trends. We seek work that will still be read, argued over, and passed hand-to-hand long after the algorithm has moved on.
We exist for readers who take their stories seriously—the ones who underline sentences, who feel the city closing in around them, who recognize themselves in the monsters and the martyrs. Every decision we make, from acquisition and editing to design and distribution, is driven by one question: will this book endure?
For authors, our mission is to be a true publishing home. We approach every manuscript with rigor and respect, pushing the work to its sharpest form while protecting the voice at its core. We understand that the strongest stories are forged, not merely formatted, and we are willing to stay in the fire with you.
Above all, we are building a catalog that stands as a testament to what dark fiction can do. Book by book, author by author, we are stepping through the gate with the same promise: We Publish What Endures.
Step Through the Gate
If you are a reader, the gate is open. Explore our catalog of dark fiction, urban fantasy, street lit, and speculative titles and find the stories that stay with you long after the lights go out.
If you are an author with a manuscript that will not let you sleep—a story that feels too sharp, too strange, too real for anywhere else—we invite you to submit. We are always looking for the next voice that refuses to fade.
We Publish What Endures.