In the fog-drenched coastal town of Port Carmine, Elara Vine runs The Quill & Alembic — part rare bookshop, part apothecary, all magic. A trained ink witch, Elara extracts the living resonance from first editions: Hemingway's raw courage, Austen's quiet clarity, Christie's razor intuition. She sells these essences to clients who need them, believing her craft is precise, controlled, and harmless.Then a client drinks what she gave him — and turns up dead.Detective Leo Hayes ...

In 2013, a newly launched Grim Oak Press published the Unfettered Phoenix Comicon Exclusive, an early edition of the award-winning anthology that featured only short stories by authors who attended the convention. The result was a book that fans could purchase and have signed by Terry Brooks, Kevin Hearne, Peter Orullian, Brandon Sanderson, and Shawn Speakman. It is now regarded by collectors as one of the most difficult Grim Oak releases to find.With this first volume of ...

A wonderful collection of ten short stories by an amazing list of contributors—all of whom were in attendance at Emerald City Comic Con 2025!Following the success of the Grimoire released at Dragonsteel Nexus 2024, this second Grimoire published at Emerald City Comic Con 2025 in Seattle, WA, creating a new anthology of stories sure to delight. Read a deadly chess game between a demon and a mage observed by Terry Brooks. Fall in love with a lovelor...

A powerful collection of twenty-one SF&F short stories by an amazing list of contributors—all of whom were in attendance at Seattle Worldcon 2025!In partnership with Seattle Worldcon, Grim Oak Press is proud to present the third Grimoire for readers who enjoy SF&F stories of the magical and the future. Escape the country through Las Vegas beside Laura Anne Gilman. Regain the time you never know you could with Megan Lindholm. Fight back against a book thief...

A wonderful collection of short stories by an amazing list of contributors—all of whom were in attendance at Emerald City Comic Con 2026!In 2024 Grim Oak Press exhibited at Dragonsteel Nexus, Brandon Sanderson's convention in Salt Lake City, UT, where the award-winning publisher released Grimoire, an anthology containing short stories by attending authors. It sold out on the first day.Due to reader demand, a new Grimoire published at Emera...

A magical collection of ten short stories by an amazing list of contributors—all of whom were in attendance at Brandon Sanderson's Dragonsteel Nexus 2025!Grim Oak Press is proud to present the fourth Grimoire anthology for readers who enjoy SF&F stories of the magical and the future. Return to the space station Unity and solve a mystery with Christopher Paolini. Discover brotherly love between ancient dragons alongside Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle. Travel for r...

My name is Jon Wayward and I was one of the most unremarkable guys you probably never met. But then I was hired to find a mysterious pack of tarot cards and that changed my life forever. Now I have inherited my grandfathers occult collectors shop, his friends, customers and ancestors Book of Shadows called the Wayward Grimoire making me the newest member of the worlds secret magical community hidden in plain sight. People now tell me I am remarkable, even famous as the heir to the Wayward ...

Two new apprentices. One charming engineer. A potential battle with both sea serpents and evil sorcerers.When Sorcerer Adrien Danvers takes on a job that leads him into the slums of England, he never imagined he'd end up with not one but two apprentices. Despite his doubts about himself, he's the only chance the two pre-teens have to escape their hellish life.When Sir Hugh Quartermain contracts him to deal with the mysterious circumstances surrounding his h...

The author of the popular Green Witchcraft series presents her personal Book of Shadows, designed for you to use just as she uses it-as a working guide to ritual, spells, and divination. This ready-made, authentic grimoire is based on family tradition and actual magical experience, and is easily adaptable to any tradition of Witchcraft.Grimoire for the Green Witch offers a treasury of magical information—rituals for Esbats and Sabbats, correspondences, circle-casting techn...

Being a forty-something, newly divorced, single mom comes with its challenges. Finding out I’m a witch is just another one of them. As a new practitioner of tru-craft, I’ve been told that every witch is called to a single element, and they are sent down one of two paths, the Fade or the Bright.Of course, every rule has an exception, and in this case, it’s me.My grimoire has revealed a new element I have to learn, and I am walking the ditch between the two p...

Magic may be secret, but it’ll kill you anyway.Twenty-eight-year-old mayor’s assistant Elizabeth has enough on her plate grieving her father’s suicide. She doesn’t need his stash of magical knowledge in the attic. She doesn’t need the hidden supernatural subculture of monsters it pulls her into. And she certainly doesn’t need hints that her father’s madness might have been a smokescreen for something far darker.But uncovering her father’s secrets could be t...

Being a forty-something, newly divorced single mom comes with its challenges. Finding out I’m a witch is just another one of them. As a new practitioner of tru-craft, I’ve been told that every witch is called to a single element, and they are sent down one of two paths: the Fade or the Bright.Of course, every rule has an exception, and in this case, it’s me.My grimoire has revealed a new element I have to learn, and I am walking the ditch between the two paths. I’m going to...