Meet Our Authors
Three creative paths. One press.
The author names of Darkness Warmth Press are creative paths, each shaped around a distinct body of work. They help readers know what kind of story they are stepping into, while keeping everything rooted in the same wider press.
Harlow Black
Harlow Black is the folklore and horror voice within Darkness Warmth Press.
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Where Phen Weston turns inward toward memory, grief, love, and the human heart, and T. C. Beardmore looks to the far edge of civilisation, Harlow Black walks the older roads: fogged lanes, moorland paths, ruined villages, old churches, drowned histories, and the places where folklore still has teeth.
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The work is gothic, atmospheric, and rooted in the landscape, often sitting somewhere between folk horror, rural mystery, supernatural fiction, and dark literary storytelling. It is writing shaped by Devon soil, ancient superstition, local dread, forgotten rituals, haunted weather, and the uneasy feeling that the past is never quite finished with us.
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Harlow Black’s writing is not separate from warmth, but it approaches it differently. Less through direct confession or the machinery of survival, more through the fragile human light set against older darkness: the inn window in the fog, the voice calling from the lane, the hand reaching for another before the moor closes in.
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At the heart of this work is the Devonverse: a connected landscape of folklore, dread, mystery, and recurring shadows, where real places meet invented hauntings, and old stories continue to move beneath the surface of ordinary life. Within Darkness Warmth Press, Harlow Black is the name for work that listens to the land, follows the fog, and asks what still waits in the dark beyond the door.
Phen Weston
Phen Weston is the poetry and literary voice within Darkness Warmth Press.
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Where Harlow Black walks the fogged lanes of folklore and horror, Phen Weston turns toward the inner landscape: memory, grief, love, survival, longing, identity, humour, pain, and the small, stubborn acts of meaning that keep people going.
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The work is personal, reflective, and emotionally direct, often sitting somewhere between poetry, confession, observation, and quiet defiance. It is writing shaped by lived experience, by tenderness and damage, by the things we carry and the things we try to put down.
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Phen Weston’s writing is not separate from darkness, but it approaches it differently. Less through myth and haunting, more through the human heart itself: the ache of what has been lost, the beauty of what remains, and the strange warmth that can still be found in ordinary moments.
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Within Darkness Warmth Press, Phen Weston is the name for work that speaks plainly, feels deeply, and searches for light without pretending the dark was never there.
T. C. Beardmore
Where Harlow Black walks the fogged lanes of folklore and horror, and Phen Weston turns inward toward memory, grief, and the human heart, T. C. Beardmore looks to the far edge of civilisation: ruined worlds, dying machines, failed empires, and the brutal architecture of survival.
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The work is grim, expansive, and industrial in spirit, often sitting somewhere between speculative fiction, military science fiction, dystopian myth, and philosophical survival horror. It is writing shaped by cold, machinery, sacrifice, discipline, endurance, and the systems humanity builds when comfort is no longer possible.
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T. C. Beardmore’s writing is not separate from warmth, but it approaches it differently. Less through tenderness or folklore, more through necessity: heat as ration, shelter as doctrine, loyalty as burden, and survival as a thing engineered at terrible cost.
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At the heart of this work is The Hum Chronology, a grim industrial future where the cold is absolute, the machines are failing, and the sound that keeps civilisation alive may also be the thing that damns it. Within Darkness Warmth Press, T. C. Beardmore is the name for work that looks beyond the last safe wall, into the snow, the ruin, and the machinery still grinding in the dark.
