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Stories from under a dark fell

Mirkfell Books publishes the novels of Christopher Lockhart: vampire courts, a dungeon lord, beast bonds, a Greek-myth academy and one very patient treasure chest.

New readers can start with Sunfang, out on Kindle on the 11th of November, or with a free story from any of the five worlds.

mirk (Scots): dark, murky. fell: a high, bare hill. Written in the Scottish Highlands.

Mirkfell Books: a dark hill under a crescent moon

Out 11 November

Kindle · out 11 November 2026
Sunfang cover: Sorin on the terrace of Highnoon, Vesperhold across the river under the eclipse

The Eclipse Heir · Book One

Sunfang

Murdered at his own Dawning, the heir of Noon wakes as a vampire who can walk in daylight.

On the longest day of the year, Sorin of House Meridian is given the class every heir of Noon has carried for nine generations. By midnight he is dead, killed in the family crypt by the man who taught him to fight. He wakes in Vesperhold, the Black Castle across the Sallow, with no pulse, no reflection and a dead queen’s voice in his blood.

Rewritten
Class: Sunfang 1 (Legendary · Eclipse)
Aspect: Eclipsebound (Unique)
Blood: 24 / 160 · Starving

By day he sits in Council and hides his cold hands. By night he levels a class nobody has heard of, wins back a ruined castle hall by hall, and keeps a household under one law: nobody under this roof is food, unless they say so.

Tell me when it’s out

Launch week $2.99 / £2.49, then $4.99 / £3.99.

Read Chapter OneAbout the book

Coming up

  1. SunfangKindle · 11 November 2026
  2. Loot1 December 2026
  3. Leashless16 February 2027
  4. First SparkComing soon
  5. The Hollow BrandComing soon
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The Eclipse Heir

Gothic vampire LitRPG
Longest Night cover

Book Two

Longest Night

The Courts of the Night are coming to kneel. Someone has to feed them.

Between first frost and the Longest Night, the heir of Noon has a castle to hold, a Council seat to keep and a court of the starving to feed. In the north, the Black-Ice Keep has woken, and its master has not answered a letter in a hundred years.

Bargain
The Oak Hall’s terms · Bargain: refused
A guest under his roof owes nothing for it, and is owed nothing.
Coming soonAmazon link at launch

Lord of First Fire

Dungeon lord LitRPG
First Spark cover

Book One

First Spark

Fire died three hundred years ago. A spare son just ran off with the last of it.

On Judgement Night, Caelith turns down the class he has wanted for nine years, and it costs him two fingers. Under the heelstone is a coat, and in its hidden pocket a Core that should not exist. It is dying, two parts in a hundred every watch, and there is only one place it can live: a fortress the Houses swear is a nursery tale.

Judgement · broken
Offered, not taken: Spellblade (Rare)
Wound: left hand, two fingers
Coming soonAmazon link at launchAbout the book

The Open Hand

Beast-bonding LitRPG
Leashless cover

Book One

Leashless

The great Houses hold their dragons on a Leash. Her class holds nothing, and the beasts keep choosing her anyway.

Maren Holt was born a lady of a House struck from the roll. Now she mucks out Lord Varrow’s kennels. Then, on a hunt day, the lord’s Legendary stormcat walks out of a burning field and sits down beside her. No Leash. No Collar. Lord Varrow calls it theft by working, and that is a hanging matter.

Bond
Class: Open Hand (Unique)
You hold nothing. What stays, stays.
Planned · 16 February 2027Amazon link at launchAbout the book

The Hollow Brand

Greek-myth progression fantasy
The Hollow Brand cover

Book One

The Hollow Brand: Year One

His House trained him to hold the door. The stone gave him what was locked behind it.

Kaelen Kallias has spent eleven years training for the Shield his House has always carried. Its lamp has been dark for six, since twenty of its people went down the bronze door and did not come back. On the day of the Test, something breaks loose, and the mark on his right hand is one the Hold has not seen in four hundred years.

Status
Rank: Iron · Step: Gate
Legacy: House Kallias · a Kallias holds the door (1 of 4)
Coming soonAmazon link at launchAbout the book

Nothing to See Here

Mimic LitRPG comedy
Loot cover

Book One

Loot

The chest in side room fourteen had been waiting for eleven years, and it was very good at it.

It ate whoever lifted the lid. Then Kit Ashby, of a broke Tin crew eleven weeks behind on the rent, sat down beside it and patted the lid instead. Now the mimic has a name, a face it keeps quietly improving, a crew, and a line in the Delvers’ Hall ledger as their Porter.

Identify
Name: none · Kind: Hoard Mimic (Uncommon), level 1
Hunger: 31
Planned · 1 December 2026Amazon link at launchAbout the book

The author

Christopher Lockhart

More about the author

Christopher Lockhart writes LitRPG and progression fantasy in the Highlands of Scotland. The books are long, the numbers add up, and every System window means something.

Mirkfell Books is the imprint for all of them.

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The Far BankThe Eclipse HeirTwenty days before his Dawning, the heir of Highnoon is handed a man to hang.
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Nobody SitsLord of First FireOne spring day in the steel yard at Aurelle, and one missing mark on a grey stone.
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The Good CheeseThe Open HandA kennel hand with a joke for a class has one night to save a hound nobody can touch.
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The Lamp Under the WolfThe Hollow BrandThe day the Hold reads no names, an eleven-year-old refuses to let his House’s lamp go out.
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The Right Amount of DustNothing to See HereFour delvers, one chest, one kettle. Nobody opens anything. Nearly.

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