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Every issue of the Darkling Dispatch, in full. The latest is always first; nothing here ever goes away.


Issue No. 07 · June 2026
The Tolling Year Current

A free Hollow Crown prequel novella — the year the pestilence came ashore at Melcombe — with the true history behind it.

Issue No. 06 · June 2026
The Bone Woman

A free Reliquary Duet novella — the story of the last bone woman before Else, and the hand that carved the wall.

Issue No. 05 · June 2026
The Sweating Year — First Pages

The first look at Book One of The Hollow Crown, and the night the sweating sickness came for Anne Boleyn.

Issue No. 04 · June 2026
The Beast Beneath the Bells, In Audio

The audiobook arrives — and the river beneath London turns out to be older than the book let on.

Issue No. 03 · May 2026
Bone Sacrament

The Reliquary Duet concludes — a scene from the gap between books, and the first word of what comes after.

Issue No. 02 · May 2026
Bone Covenant is Live

Book One of the Reliquary Duet opens in the plague-year of 1348, on the hill where the covenant was first kept.

Issue No. 01 · May 2026
The Beast Beneath the Bells is Live

The first dispatch — where the bells of St. Dunstan-in-the-East, and the Troth, began.

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