I’m Clarissa Tether, and I write dark fantasy for adults who like their stories gothic, intense, and a little dangerous. My work lives where demons, dark magic, and power dynamics meet: rope and ritual, bargains with consequences, and narrators you can’t entirely trust.
Every story carries a touch of Edgar Allan Poe: the slow dread, the feverish confession, the ending that closes like a trap. My debut novelette, The Tell-Tale Sigil, is a reimagining of “The Tell-Tale Heart” about a sorceress who binds a demon, a heartbeat she can’t silence, and a question of who really holds the leash.
What you’ll find here
  • Explicit dark fantasy, with bondage, power exchange, and taboo themes
  • Demons, dark magic, and gothic horror
  • Serialized chapters, bonus scenes, and alternate perspectives
  • Early access to new stories
Content note: This page is for adults only (18+). My fiction includes explicit sexual content, restraint and dominance themes, violence, and psychological horror. All characters are fictional adults.
Subscribe, step inside, and don’t mind the sound beneath the floorboards.