Welcome to the Candelabræm infosite!
We're starting over for 2024, as we realized it was too early to launch last year.
Learn about us here!
About Us
Candelabræm Books will be the first indie publisher to provide stories for the truly dark and daring at heart. Our mission is to serve readers the very strangest, most pleasurable, and darkest of tales. Tales that shy from the light of day...but dare to be read by candlelight.We strive to serve readers mature, dark, and fantastic tales from twisted dreams born of secret desires and the love of storytelling.Our stories feature characters who may not always be on the straight and narrow or have intimate desires themselves. While dealing with these self-inflicted limitations, dire consequences, and tantalizing provocations, they may attempt to overcome the workings of the very worlds they live in.Not all is always as it seems. By candlelight, Reader, you will learn the truth—if you dare to.Whether you are here to read or to hang out amongst the shadows of the Candelhaus, we only ask that you remain on your best behavior—the abyss has been giving us funny looks lately.Oh, and bring reading glasses. It's kinda dark in here.
Created in 2020, Candelabræm Books is located in Hamden, Connecticut. Created by a daring mind in dark times, it will be the home for stories and works by Mar Qaroll.
Mar Qaroll
Storyteller, worldbuilder, author, and lover of the taboo, perverse, exceptionally diverse, and the little things that are deadly.A transmasculine man, he comes from an Islamic background, a religion he no longer follows as he instead follows his own sort of logic and beliefs.
Completed stories by Mar:
Inhuman
Human
Passions of the Lune
God Noise
What to Expect
Candelabræm’s goal is to tell original stories one would only find on Archive of Our Own—including all that insinuates. As our goal is to be as transparent as possible, there are specific content warnings you should be aware of before you continue into our fictitious universes...
Content to expect
Unhealthy relationships
Tentacle sex
Teratophilia
Chronophilias
Interspecies sex
Mpreg
Hermaphrodites
Unrealistic erotic sex
Abuses and PTSDs
Dark romance
Assault
Breeding
Erotic romance
Explicit violence and gore
Exophilia
...and more
Do NOT expect...
Feel-good and cozy stories
"Happily ever after" romance
Comedies
Slice-of-life
Teen drama
Young adult stories
Immature characters
Annoying child leads
Clueless female characters
Helpless female characters
Persistent happiness
"Fade-to-black"
Inoffensive language
"Political correctness"
...that you won't be triggered
...that you won't be offended
If anything on these lists offends or upsets you, unfortunately, our stories may not be for you. Our work isn't for the easily offended or narrow-minded.