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OBSIDIAN GATE PRESS
LLC — EST. 2021
Boutique Dark Press — Portland / Remote
Stories ThatDon’t LookAway.
Obsidian Gate Press is a curated house for fiction that lives in shadow. We publish dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, dark erotica, graphic and urban — books with teeth, heart, and craft.No tropes for tropes’ sake. No sanitized darkness. Only work that lingers.Enter The CatalogSubmit Your Manuscript
© 2021—2026 Obsidian Gate Press LLC
OBSIDIAN GATE
THE THROAT OF THE WORLD
M. KADE GRAVES — WINTER MMXXVI
EDITION 01 / 1000● FOIL STAMP
Artifact — Case Study 01Obsidian Fantasy
Five Gates — One Press
IMPRINTS
Each imprint has its own editor, aesthetic, and oath. Same standard: if it doesn’t haunt you, we don’t print it.
Dark Fantasy
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OBSIDIAN FANTASY
Swords that remember blood. Gods that have forgotten mercy. Mythic horror where power has a cost.
Open to submissions • Quarterly
Dark Sci-Fi
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VOID SCI-FI
Cold futures, broken ships, intelligences that do not love us. Science as existential dread.
Open to submissions • Quarterly
Dark Erotica
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NOCTURNE EROTICA
Consent as craft. Desire as ritual. Elegant, dangerous, literary eroticism for adults who read.
Open to submissions • Quarterly
Graphic / Comix
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BLEED GRAPHIC
Ink-heavy, panel-bleeding, unflinching visual storytelling. Where the gutter holds teeth.
Open to submissions • Quarterly
Urban Fiction
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CONCRETE URBAN
Neon, concrete, survival. Cities as living predators. Stories that smell like rain on hot asphalt.
Open to submissions • Quarterly
NEW & Upcoming
NEW2026 • OBSIDIAN FANTASY
THE THROAT OF THE WORLD
M. Kade Graves
Cloth • Foil • Edge-stainView →
UPCOMING2026 • VOID SCI-FI
VOIDGARDEN PROTOCOL
Rin Sol
Cloth • Foil • Edge-stainView →
NEW2025 • NOCTURNE
SKIN PRAYERS
Sable L.
Cloth • Foil • Edge-stainView →
PREORDER2026 • BLEED GRAPHIC
BLEED #04: HOLLOW SAINTS
J. Ortiz & Vale
Cloth • Foil • Edge-stainView →
NEW2025 • CONCRETE URBAN
EASTSIDE ALTAR
Darius Cole
Cloth • Foil • Edge-stainView →
UPCOMING2026 • OBSIDIAN FANTASY
THE COLD COVENANT
Elowen Black
Cloth • Foil • Edge-stainView →
Manifesto — What We Publish
We publish the
books other houses
flinch from.
01 — DARKNESS WITH CRAFT
We are not edgy for market. We are rigorous about sentence, structure, and consequence. If your violence is gratuitous, we pass. If your tenderness costs something, we listen.
02 — BODIES THAT MATTER
Queer, trans, Black, disabled, working-class — not as themes, but as authors and architects. Lived experience is not garnish.
03 — DESIGN AS DEVOTION
Every book is cloth-bound, foil-stamped, edge-stained, and typeset in-house. We publish fewer books so each can be an object.
We do NOT publish
- AI-generated text or art
- Grimdark that mistakes cruelty for depth
- Erotica without explicit, enthusiastic consent on page
- Military sci-fi that glorifies empire
Obsidian Gate Press LLC • Portland, OR
FEATURED AUTHORS
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Obsidian Fantasy
M. Kade Graves
The Throat of the World
Profile & Bibliography →
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Void Sci-Fi
Rin Sol
Voidgarden Protocol
Profile & Bibliography →
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Nocturne Erotica
Sable L.
Skin Prayers
Profile & Bibliography →
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Concrete Urban
Darius Cole
Eastside Altar
Profile & Bibliography →
For Writers — Submissions
Bring us the
manuscript you
were told to tone down.
We read year-round. Response in 60 days. We pay advance + royalties, never fees. We accept agented and unagented. English and Spanish manuscripts welcome.
What we want right now: Novels 70k-120k, novellas 20k-40k, graphic scripts with artist attached, linked story collections that bleed.
Reading PeriodOpen • Year-round
ResponseWithin 60 days
Advance$2k — $12k + royalties
Format.docx, .pdf — No SubmittableSubmission GuidelinesEmail: manuscripts@obsidiangate.press
The Store — Direct & Limited
Buy direct and get the obsidian edition: cloth, foil, stained edges, signed bookplate, and a letter from the editor. 1000 copies only. No Amazon algorithm.
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Press Note
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