novels, short stories & Scenarios

M.Da Costa

Horror and detective fiction. Lately trying out Dark fantasy. More coming.

Grave Hunters — Official Trailer
Novels
Grave Hunters
Horror · Detective
Grave Hunters
The End Knows Your Name.

A detective story that turns into something else entirely. When the dead start leaving evidence, the investigation becomes personal in ways no one could have predicted.

Coming Soon
Unbraced
Horror · Supernatural
Unbraced
Standing on the Edge.

A house that shouldn't exist. A group that can't leave. What they find inside is less terrifying than what they find in each other.

Coming Soon
Ashback
Horror · Psychological
Ashback
Look in the darkest corners of your mind.

Memory as a weapon. A man unraveling the architecture of his own past — and finding something that doesn't belong.

Coming Soon
Veilborne
Horror · Dark Fantasy
Veilborne
Even Gods die in the Breach

A terrifying story of humanity on the brink of extinctions after a dimensional breach.

Coming Soon
Author’s Desk
Writing as origin

Writing makes me
feel

Writing has always been the place where everything impossible to say properly found a shape: from my very grounded fears and obsession to new and worlds that seemed to arrive before I knew what to do with them.

Starting has never been the hardest part. Starting is instinct. Finishing is the monster: cutting, choosing, rebuilding, and accepting that a book has to become a finished object instead of an infinite refuge.

Origin

Atmosphere

Most stories begin as a place that feels wrong, because growing up I often felt out of place.

Process

Cinematic

One image becomes a character, then a wound, then a world starving for more.

Now

Multidimensional

Grave Hunters, Unbraced, Ashback, and Veilborne each carry a different fracture that feels equally beautiful and inspiring.

Trial

Finishing

The real work is deciding what survives the draft and what has to stay buried, I often struggle to pass that step but I hopefully get the machanism someday.

Publishing
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Catalogue

Available and upcoming books

Published works, future titles, editions, covers, excerpts, and purchase links gathered in one place.

Shop
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Readers

Release notes and updates

Cover reveals, sample chapters, new editions, trailers, and announcements for upcoming projects.

Updates
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Professional

Rights, press and inquiries

Publishing discussions, interviews, adaptation interest, review copies, collaborations, and press contact.

Contact
On Kindle
Grave Hunters on Kindle
Grave Hunters Coming Soon on Kindle
Ashback on Kindle
Ashback Coming Soon on Kindle