Dark Cyprus
Dark Cyprus Series
Every island keeps its secrets. Ours just happen to whisper back.
Beneath the postcard beaches and olive groves, Cyprus hides older stories. Stories of saints who never died, shadows that learn your face, and seas that whisper your name.
The Dark Cyprus Series is a growing collection of standalone novels from Secret Cyprus Press, blending horror, fantasy, science fiction, and supernatural thrillers — all rooted in the island’s haunting geography, folklore, and fractured light. Each book stands on its own, yet all share the same dark heartbeat: the collision of myth and modernity, faith and fear, technology and superstition.
From snowbound monasteries and drowned villages to luxury villas built over forgotten tombs, every story in Dark Cyprus reveals a different side of the Mediterranean; a place where paradise and damnation share the same sun.
In these tales, a doctor searching for closure returns to a village that doesn’t want him back. A fading rock band faces the echoes of a pact they made one Christmas long ago. A crypto millionaire must face an ancient god risen from the sea. A missing bride, a gifted child, a forgotten island cult — all threads in a tapestry of stories bound by the island’s timeless curse: the past is never truly buried here.
Though the novels are unrelated in plot and characters, they’re united by the soil itself — by Cyprus’s ancient mythologies, forgotten dialects, Orthodox mysticism, and modern obsessions. Beneath the modern gloss of beach resorts and nightclubs lies another Cyprus: haunted, sunburned, and divine.
Each book in the Dark Cyprus Series is a portal to a different time, a different terror, a different truth. Some stories unfold in snow, others under blinding summer light, but all echo the same refrain:
The island remembers.
A cinematic blend of Mediterranean gothic, folk horror, and speculative fiction, Dark Cyprus reimagines the island not as a postcard, but as a living myth — ancient, seductive, and vengeful.
From the ghost-haunted mountains of Troodos to the drowned temples of Ayia Napa, from the ruins of forgotten crusader castles to secret government experiments buried under volcanic ash, these stories explore what happens when myth, memory, and science collide.
Whether it’s the quiet dread of a village that won’t stay dead, the cosmic horror of an alien awakening beneath the sea, or the tragedy of a love that defies time, Dark Cyprus invites you to step into the shadows and discover what the island truly hides.
Each book a new nightmare.
Each story, a new secret.
Genres: Folk Horror Supernatural Thriller Sci-Fi Mystery Mythic Fantasy
Imprint: Secret Cyprus Press
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Stories from the sun’s dark side.
The island remembers.
Where myth still breathes.
