Y. N. Arvanitis

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The Debut Novel

The Ash Account

Eight Bearers ◊ Eight Prices ◊ One Reckoning

Some books record names. This one devours them.

The Ledger is iron-bound, warm to the touch. And starving. It passes from hand to hand, and every soul who carries it pays a price — a memory, a face, a faith, the capacity to feel.

And always behind them walks the silver-masked woman the rain will not touch. She has hunted the book for three hundred years. Because it is the only thing keeping her alive.

From a drowned masquerade to a burning archive, eight bearers carry the Ledger toward the one place it can finally be made to end. Whatever that costs the last hand to hold it.

A standalone dark fantasy novel

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The Author

Y. N. Arvanitis lives in Athens, where he teaches IT and robotics — a daytime life of logic and machines that has never quite kept his imagination in line.

He has been writing since high school, when fantasy and crime stories spun out of the ordinary things happening around him. Storytelling proper began with his two daughters, who demanded tales — and made it clear the classic ones would not do. So he built them magical landscapes and heroes of his own.

Somewhere in the telling, longer and darker stories began arriving uninvited, and he started writing those down too. The Ash Account was the one that sat most finished in the drawer, waiting — though he sometimes suspects it was the other way around, and the book was waiting for him.

It is his first published novel.

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On the Horizon

The Necrotic Library

A shelf of the classics, re-shelved among the dead.

Gothic postmortems of the stories you thought you knew — cold casebooks and closed accounts, told in the ledger-register of a hand that keeps its records clean. The first volumes are being written now.

A Postmortem of Ebenezer Scrooge ◊ A Casebook of Henry Jekyll

Forthcoming from Y. N. Arvanitis