Koji A. Dae
The story begins in Dalyan, Turkey, before going on across several locations in North Africa, including Istanbul, Turkey
Tunis, Tunisia
Sousse, Tunisia
Kairouan, Tunisia
Cairo, Egypt
Fes, Morocco
It's a Djinn curse-based adventure horror novel
This adult aetherpunk novel is set in a futuristic version of Helsinki that blends Finnish mythology with dystopia.
This is the stop where I caught the bus for my daily commute for many years. The enormous cobwebs on the ticket machines, sited at the righthand end of the shelter, were the inspiration for my comic story about spiders taking over the world, which appeared in the anthology 'Laughs in Space' in 2024.
The Broads (also known as the Norfolk Broads) is a wide, flat, somewhat desolate and haunting part of East Anglia, just right as a setting for this quiet horror story.
It can be found in the anthology 'Noncorporeal II.'
This comic fantasy is my first novel, and was written in Huntingdon over many, many, many evenings and weekends.
A bestseller in Estonia, where the book is so well known that a popular board game has been created based on it, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is the imaginative and moving story of a boy who is tasked with preserving ancient traditions in the face of modernity.
This story is inspired by the author's own experiences growing up in South Africa and attending a single sex, religious school in Johannesburg.
Terraced houses, abandoned streets, unfriendly pubs, Victorian parks... Very much inspired by Liverpool, though I can't vouch for this journey as it nears the outskirts!
She's out there somewhere. Will you join me in searching?
Whisperwood is set in a fictional village inspired by the wooded regions of central Romania, and at one point mentions an old name for the city Sibiu as being the largest nearby hub.
I (the author) am from not far from that region, and live even closer.