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The Datura Press exists to champion

strange beauty and singular voices

We publish titles that blur the line between myth and memory, the gothic and the political, the literary and the spellbound. Each book in our growing catalogue is built for longevity and layered reading—ideal for translation, screen, and audio expansion.

We welcome enquiries regarding rights representation, co-agency, foreign editions, and media adaptation. If you are an agent, scout, or creative producer interested in our stories, we’d love to hear from you.

The Datura Press are in discussions around:

Rights partnerships (foreign, translation, screen, audio)

Scouting opportunities

Co-agency representation

Festival, prize, and residency nominations

We are particularly interested in developing relationships with agents who share our values: editorial depth, author care, and boundary-pushing imagination.

Deep, dark cinematic worlds

  • A black and white illustration featuring a gothic-style young woman with long, wavy hair, wearing a detailed Victorian dress, and a large wolf in the background. The scene includes intricate floral and vine patterns around them, with a dark forest in the backdrop.

    Narcisa Before Narcisa

    Genre: Gothic Literary Fantasy / Dark Feminist Fable

    Format: Novel, ongoing series

    Logline:

    In a haunted corner of 18th-century Bukovina, a reluctant teenage witch becomes a revolutionary icon, battling corruption, ancestral trauma, and the myth she’s becoming.

    Market Potential:

    YA–Adult crossover with strong appeal to fans of The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden), The Secret History (Donna Tartt), and His Dark Materials

    High visual potential for prestige streaming (limited or serialised), animation, or graphic novel

    Strong hooks for audiobook market: multiple narrators, immersive myth-world, dark humour

    Sales Hooks:

    Female-led, genre-bending with political edge

    Taps into current interest in folk horror, witchcraft, and historical reimaginings

    Potential for merchandising (runes, maps, tarot) and live events

    Status: Approaching draft one of first volume

    Excerpts available.

    Rights available: World excl. UK print / All other rights

    Discover Narcisa
  • A black and white photo of a vintage diner with a large sign that reads 'DINER' on the facade.

    Walker Awake

    Genre: Metaphysical Thriller / Literary Noir

    Format: Standalone novel

    Logline:

    When a man wakes with no memory only the badge of powerful and enigmatic agency and a brutal murder to solve in a 1950s America we would not comeplelty recognise.

    Market Potential:

    Ideal for audiobook with sound design / multi-voice narration

    Rich potential for arthouse film or graphic novella (visual metaphors, fragmented timeline, liminal spaces)

    Huge potential as a prestige streaming series

    Think Twin Peaks meets Justified by way of Angel Heart

    Sales Hooks:

    Surreal, philosophical, and emotionally resonant

    Speaks to themes of masculinity, memory, and self-erasure—ripe for festival circuit or speculative podcast drama

    Perfect for graphic storytelling formats

    Status: Part one published via Amazon, reversion rights in negotiation.

    First full volume complete in draft.

    Rights available: All excl. first English-language paperback

    Discover Walker
  • A black and white illustration of a long, arched library corridor with bookshelves on both sides, a person walking towards an arched door at the end, and ornate tables along the corridor.

    The Death at the Door

    Genre: Gaslamp Occult Mystery / Supernatural Procedural

    Format: Episodic novella series

    Logline:

    In this first instalment of the series Annotated Casebooks of Professor Manton Marble, a melancholic occult scholar and his dashing aristocratic companion investigate the death of Marble’s wife—murdered by a vampire revolutionary cell bent on England’s destruction. Each case in the series will draw them deeper into the war between science, politics, and the unknowable.

    Market Potential:

    High-concept audio drama potential (BBC / Audible / Spotify Originals)

    Can scale into a graphic novel series, live-action serial, or tabletop RPG tie-in

    Comparable to The Sandman, Carnacki, Penny Dreadful, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

    Sales Hooks:

    Highly episodic with a strong mythology spine—perfect for adaptation

    Built-in tension between rational science and gothic horror

    Expands to a broader world of vampires, anarchists, secret societies, and alternative European history

    Status: Full draft of volume one complete, excerpt available

    Rights available: All

    Discover Manton

The I Live Night by Night (NxN) collective

The Datura Press is super excited to be part of a trinity of creative partners in the heart of Florence. Adding sonic and visual power to our words, check out our sister creatives at

The Datura Tapes

Born from sonic experiments around our books, The Tapes, under the stewardship of studio head Mujiki Kai, is now a fully fledged label with inventive artists from the fire of Sicily to the frozen wilds of Swedish forests and an in-house production team darkStylus. They now have their own digital site, take them for a spin at…

www.thedaturatapes.audio

FugaceFugace

Born from sonic experiments around our books, The Tapes, under the stewardship of studio head Mujiki Kai, is now a fully fledged label with inventive artists from the fire of Sicily to the frozen wilds of Swedish forests and an in-house production team darkStylus. They now have their own digital site, take them for a spin at…

www.fugacefugace.studio

A digital art piece with neon-style text reading 'the truth' and 'tapes' against a black background, with a waveform below the text and small white dots representing data points or noise.
Close-up of a person dressed in a fwlt apron with tattooed arm, preparing meat on a cutting table at a butcher shop called 'Fugacafugace.' The shop's name and website are visible at the top of the image.

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