SF Russell Writes

Historical Fantasy & Folklore Fiction

A black raven and a rust-red raven facing each other across the open pages of an antique notebook, with faint handwriting and musical staves

“I will do my best to mend with words what the heart cannot forgive.”

Front cover of A Night of Strange Dreams by SF Russell

Out now in ebook & paperback

A Night of Strange Dreams

From dusk through to dawn, A Night of Strange Dreams travels across thirteen centuries, moving through darkness toward an unlikely light. Through myth and monsters, history and folklore, the ancient and the uncomfortably modern. Each dream stranger than the last.

Like all the best dreams, the darkness comes at a price.

“The night is long. Stay until dawn.”

What readers are saying

“Absolutely remarkable and vivid descriptions, atmospheric and eerie.”

Louise C., Goodreads

“A bit like falling into someone else’s mind for an evening.”

Lindsay D., Goodreads

“A delightfully moody and atmospheric collection of short stories.”

@bookphreak, Instagram

Meet the author

Black and white portrait of author SF Russell

I’m SF Russell, a writer of historical fantasy and folklore fiction, based in South West England. I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember, and I still have a notebook from my pre-teen years filled with nothing but hundreds of character names. I raid it for inspiration to this day.

A Night of Strange Dreams is my debut collection, and there are more stories waiting in the wings.

More about me

Substack · Bluesky · Goodreads · LibraryThing


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Magic in the Margins

Articles and short fiction, over on my Substack.