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The Datura Press | Modern Gothic Fiction, Mythic Storytelling & The Datura Tapes
The Datura Press is a Florence-based literary imprint for the haunted, the myth-minded, and the beautifully strange.
We publish experimental gothic fiction, modern myths, and dark, character-driven worlds that are built to linger.
The Datura Press — The Books
Your new gothic heroine
A teenage witch. A crumbling empire. A story told like a secret — and never the same way twice.
Narcisa Before Narcisa
Walker Awake
An unnerving slice of Americana.
A slow-burn detonation of paranoia, violence, and surreal revelation in an America that never quite existed.
An uncanny detective of the occult.
A civil servant discovers that a series of “novels” are in fact case files, and Professor Marble is real — along with the monsters he hunts.
The Death at the Door
The Datura Tapes /
the truth, forty eight thousand times a second
The Datura Tapes is our audio wing: an evolving archive of ambient scores, studio mythologies, and transmissions from the wider Datura universe.
From the ASMR vibes from the deepest reaches of our books to the bleeding-edge beats of production team DarkStylus broadcasting from their DarkArc studio in the heart of Florence, there’s always a signal being broadcast out there somewhere.
New release from THE TAPES
i follow i
Amarah Ray Jones
DarkArc011
Amarah found inspiration in a poem she wrote to herself as a teen, telling her to watch out for her own heart and as she strived to succeed not to lose her own peace and inner life.
A very different vibe to her usual hard hitting street poetry, it’s a slow and sultry dub tune showing she really did have wisdom beyond her years way back when.
Forged right here in Florence in our DarkArc studios, Amarah and in-house mixdesk maniacs darkStylus have create an empowering tune to fill the dancefloor and youre heart
“I swap mine heart so full of dread, follow i path to joy ahead”
