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Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy fiction by Lincoln Cole. Dark stories that explore the shadows between worlds.
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A reference page for readers who keep notebooks. The Progenitor era through the Long Peace and the Stewardship — every major date, every Wurm Lord seal, every city, located on the heptagonal lattice that holds the continent together.
Last Light: World Lore Deep-Dive
The Hollowing, the Void, the Dominion, and the dimensional physics underneath nine books of cosmic horror. The lore document I never wrote inside the series, because the characters did not have time to read it.
How I Built a Privacy-First Developer Toolkit on Cloudflare Workers
I built 37 developer tools on Cloudflare Workers after watching JSONFormatter leak five years of credentials. Here's the architecture: V8 isolates, zero-knowledge encryption, and sub-50ms response times on five npm dependencies.
Raven's Peak Goes Free July 7: Start World on Fire
For five days in July, Raven's Peak — book one of World on Fire — is free on Kindle. Here's what waits in that town, and why I start everyone here.
Tuesday, the signal goes wide
On Tuesday, BookBub puts Last Light in the Dark in front of 580,000 horror readers. You've had a week with it — here's your head start.
The Dev Tools I Actually Use Every Day
I built 37 developer tools after watching JSONFormatter leak 80,000 files worth of credentials. Here are the six I actually reach for every single day — and why privacy-first matters more than features.
Writer's Commentary: What The Covenant Files Was Really About
A book about murder victims who turned out to be innocent became a five-book theological noir about fatherhood. Three structural decisions, the cost of book three, and what The Covenant Files was always trying to be.
Writer's Commentary: Why I Wrote The Darklands
An essay on what The Darklands is about underneath the plot — certainty, the question above my desk, the ending I almost wrote and threw away, and the one line I almost cut that turned out to be the only line some readers carried home. Spoilers for the trilogy.
Behind the Scenes: Writer's Commentary — Graveyard of Empires
A writer's commentary on what Graveyard of Empires is actually about — institutional atrocity, children built as weapons, and the patience of the thing on the other side. Plus the influences and the cuts.
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