A literary magazine devoted to dark academia, where prose, poetry, creative nonfiction, and artwork explore obsession, intellect, and the beauty of the obscure.

Ivy-covered walls. Ruins lost to antiquity. Hidden pasts. A murder in the night. Candlelit Chronicles is a literary magazine dedicated to haunting and evocative writing, imbued with philosophical prose. We are open to almost any genre, from Mystery to Gothic to Literary Fiction and beyond. So long as it is atmospheric, cozy, and explores the deeper parts of what it means to be human, we want it.




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Candlelit Chronicles

In the ruins of Earth, death dances with the end of time. Where the mourning lay weeping, where stone-crawling ivy goes creeping, and the morning dew drips, seeping. There, beneath the earth, lay the forgotten. Perhaps a scholar who wrote in vain, and so the world remained unchanged. Perhaps a great master, dead before his art could reach the world. Perhaps a playwright, fallen before the final act. There was a graveyard not of bodies but of dreams.

In this issue, gather those scattered dreams and give them breath once more. Unearth the silenced voices, the half-written verses, the buried brilliance. Let ink become resurrection, and memory defy decay. Make the divine and the forgotten live again. Summon what was lost to time, what slipped between the pages of history, and died only as a whisper.

Poetry: Dreams of the Forgotten

Fiction: Dreams of the Forgotten

In the ruins of Earth, death dances with the end of time. Where the mourning lay weeping, where stone-crawling ivy goes creeping, and the morning dew drips, seeping. There, beneath the earth, lay the forgotten. Perhaps a scholar who wrote in vain, and so the world remained unchanged. Perhaps a great master, dead before his art could reach the world. Perhaps a playwright, fallen before the final act. There was a graveyard not of bodies but of dreams.


In this issue, gather those scattered dreams and give them breath once more. Unearth the silenced voices, the half-written verses, the buried brilliance. Let ink become resurrection, and memory defy decay. Make the divine and the forgotten live again. Summon what was lost to time, what slipped between the pages of history, and died only as a whisper.

Creative Nonfiction: Dreams of the Forgotten

Seeking dark academia art work - illustrations, paintings, mixed media, oil pastels, and more!

Art: Dreams of the Forgotten 

Between the flickers, what hides? In the shadows there lurks a secret society in the early morning hours. In the shadows there is an alter ego longing to be free. In the shadows lies some forgotten novel. Some masterpiece from another time. In the shadows there lies a secret. In the shadows there lies a thin sliver of beauty, the kind that exists between the day and night. When the sun is waning and the night is creeping and the moon is flickering beneath the clouds. There lies a romantic beauty in the hidden, in the unseen, in the half-baked, in the in-between. In the flickers there lies the morally gray, the abstract and untold.<div><br></div><div>In this issue, we aren’t seeking simple stories. We want what’s felt behind the cracks. The stories with edge, the stories with atmosphere, the stories that ooze. The stories that initiate you as a member, the stories that hand you a magnifying glass and urge you to write notes, the stories that unsettle you. Dark academia driven to its core. The madness and the intellect, the morally gray and the unsettling. Give it to us all and scatter in your writing the quill pens, the candles, the rituals, the rites for stormy weather, the tweed coats and ties.</div>

Issue V: Poetry Section - Flickers of the Lamplight

Issue V: Prose Section - Flickers of the Lamplight

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