DISMALIA WILD HUNTS

DISMALIA WILD HUNTS is an anthology of horror and action stories set in a fantastical and macabre world. Fusing the genres of science fiction, body and cosmic horror and sword and sorcery in a distant but familiar world, which has undergone a cataclysm of mythic proportions where Demons of the outer cosmos invade the known world, but humanity has evolved to hunt them down, harvesting the substances and matter from their monstrous bodies to distill through industrialized alchemy, thus producing elixirs capable of mutating their bodies to obtain extraordinary and inhuman attributes. However, the focus of these stories is on the inner humanity of the Slayers situated on a boundary between the demonic and the human, madness and sanity; their home in a post apocalyptic world. Thus exploring their struggles physically and philosophically as they hunt to survive and learn about themselves and the world, mutating and undergoing a metamorphosis when outliving their expected life expectancy. Narrated through each hunt are the inner experiences of these characters doing these brutal jobs with a worldly mentality. Stories and characters that explore their sense of duty, their mortality, the transcendence of the spirit and the relationship between humanity and its demons both internal and external.

Its a world of Demons that descend from outer space and a civilization of Demon Slayers that have industrialized the harvesting of their body parts and fluids to create an industry of mutative potions and Elixirs that evolved humanity rapidly and now they perpetuate this hunt to reclaim their lost planet. But the focus is on the characters. DISMALIA is the name of a region that's both frontier defense against the Demonic Domains and Penal colony for the criminals of the Kingdom of Dorok, which inherited the ancient knowledge, technology and masteries of the Berelithian civilization that once ruled the world with Demons in a covenant, now broken. Three millennia later, humanity is evolving faster than they can mature. And DISMALIA, the Frontier between the Human and the Demonic, is growing. I explore a lot of concepts from the narrative of a monster hunting industry, the advent of mutative substances to speed run civilization, corruptions of a system that enforces a new history on their population, and a government of alchemists that sees society as an experiment in progress.