Sweet Dreams
Sweet Dreams, Chapter 1 of 5
The threshold of the saga, the queen who senses what is coming before anyone else knows it has begun. When you see the violet earring, you are already dreaming.
The Succubus Saga
The Demon Queens
An original dark fantasy story series by Merci Web Design Studio, told one chapter at a time. Demon queens, each gorgeous, each ancient, each keeping an office older than the world around her. Every design below is a chapter, ready to wear on a shirt or hang on your wall as a metal poster.
Come Here
Come Here, Chapter 1
Fate does not chase. She stands still, crooks one finger, and the road rearranges itself to bring you to her.
See You Tonight
See You Tonight, Chapter 1
She does not hope, and she does not threaten. She simply tells you where you will be tonight, and she has never once been wrong.
Behind The Mask
Behind The Mask, Chapter 1
Everyone in her court wears a mask, and everyone believes the mask is the disguise. She knows the face you hide is the only true one you own.
Forbidden Knowledge
The Librarian, Chapter 1
She keeps the Archive, every book that was ever burned, banned, or buried, and she has read all of them. Ask her anything; the price is that you cannot unknow the answer.
The Toast
The Toast, Chapter 1
She raises her glass in a burning speakeasy, a toast to poor decisions, and every man drinking knows she is the reason it is burning.
Storm Warning
Storm Warning, Chapter 1
Where the other queens scheme, she celebrates, the storm arriving like a festival, laughing in the wind she commands.
The Summoner
The Summoner, Chapter 1
Every chain of events in the saga starts with her chalk circle and her curiosity. She does not summon demons. She is what the demons answer to.
The Black Rose
The Black Rose, Chapter 1
She keeps the Garden, and the Garden keeps the saga's mercy. A black rose from her hand has ended wars. What she keeps, she keeps forever.
The Ice Queen
Ice Queen, Chapter 1
A kingdom of ice held together by a queen who has never once lost her temper, or her throne. Restraint is her power.
Desert Moon
Desert Moon, Chapter 1
A man crosses a desert of bones for one night in her shrine. The cobra at her feet decides who is worthy of the walk back.
The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse, Chapter 1
Daughter of Storm Warning, keeper of the last light on a drowning coast. Ships steer by her lamp through weather her mother makes for joy.
Night Blossom
Night Blossom, Chapter 1
She keeps the moon garden and the bridge over still water, and her gift is hearing: footsteps, secrets, and the thing that is coming, long before it arrives.
The Last Train
The Last Train, Chapter 1
Her train runs a line that appears on no timetable, out of a station that closed a century ago. One seat is always empty, and it is always the seat beside her.
She Flies At Night
She Flies At Night, Chapter 1
By day the rooftops belong to the gargoyles. By night they belong to her, and the city's insomniacs leave their windows open an inch wider, just in case.
The Tomb Queen
Tomb Queen, Chapter 1
She doesn't rob tombs. The tomb was built for her. Her verb is the oldest in the saga: she endures.
Midnight In Venice
Midnight In Venice, Chapter 1
The canals keep her hours. What walks Venice after midnight belongs to her, and the city has loved her too long to be afraid properly.
Empire Of Night
Empire Of Night, Chapter 1
She remembers every empire that ever fell, because she was standing in all of them when they did. Empires end. She files them.
Daughter Of The North
Daughter Of The North, Chapter 1
Furs, iron, and aurora light. The north does not forgive, and neither does she, but the sailors who carry her token always come home.
The Vintage
The Vintage, Chapter 1
She keeps the vineyard, the villa, the lanterns, the harvest, all hers since before the stones were laid. Other estates boast about their old vintages. Hers walks the rows at night.
Midnight Mesa
Midnight Mesa, Chapter 1
The town emptied out years ago, the mine closed, the well ran dry. She never left. On a still night her lantern moves along the boardwalk, and the saloon piano plays one song, always for her.
The Silk Road
The Silk Road, Chapter 1
Hers is the last inn on the desert road, and every caravan stops. The fountain has run for a thousand years, and the price of a bed is one secret, honestly told.
Bayou Moon
Bayou Moon, Chapter 1
Her lantern has burned on that dock since before the parish had a name. The gators keep their distance, the fireflies follow her home, and the lost always find her light eventually.
Paris After Dark
Paris After Dark, Chapter 1
She knows every rooftop in Paris, and the gargoyles dip their stone heads when she passes. Painters have been inventing her face for two hundred years, and she has not aged a day.
The Crystal Court
Sweet Dreams, Chapter 2 of 5
Her court is made of the dreams of crystal and candlelight, and the dream politely rearranges itself around her while everyone looks at her.
Moon Harbor
Sweet Dreams, Chapter 3 of 5
The dream has a harbor, and she is its lighthouse and its tide. You do not navigate Moon Harbor. You are expected.
The Night the Dream Came to the Inn
Sweet Dreams and The Silk Road, A Meeting
Nobody reaches the last inn by accident. That night Sweet Dreams came out of the dark between the dunes a little after midnight, and the price of a bed was the same as always: one secret, honestly told.
What the Bridge Hears
Night Blossom, Chapter 2
The bridge over her still water hears everything said above it and everything swimming below it, and it tells her both. Tonight it hears a step it has never heard in a thousand years.
The Quiet Ones
Night Blossom, Chapter 3
The garden teaches one proverb above its gate: never trust the quiet ones. By the time you understand her silence, she has already decided about you.
The Masquerade
Sweet Dreams, Chapter 4 of 5
A wide ballroom, a hundred masks, music like poured gold, and she walks through the center of it looking at no one. She is the only honest face in the room.
The Duel at Dawn
Sweet Dreams, Chapter 5 of 5
Book One of her run closes the way her dreams always close: at dawn, with a challenge, and the queen who has never hurried in her life arriving exactly on time.
The Frozen Ball
Ice Queen, Chapter 2
One night a year she opens the ice palace, and every guest learns one standing warning at the door. Never ask why she dances alone.
The Sealed Chamber
Tomb Queen, Chapter 2
She stands before the Great Sphinx of Giza as it was the day it was finished, painted and whole. The seal holds because she holds it, and the chamber behind it is still hers.
Between the Kings
Tomb Queen, Chapter 3
She walks the processional way at Luxor as it stood new built, between the colossal kings, while word travels up out of Thebes: somewhere in the wet plaster, a hand has carved a name that was never meant to surface.
The Last Banquet
Empire of Night, Chapter 2
Rome in its glory, the feast at its height, and she at the table remembering every course. The books say what happened. She was there, and her memory does not always agree with them.
Where the Gargoyles Bow
Paris After Dark, Chapter 2
Two hundred years she has walked the roofs of Paris, and there is not a gargoyle she has not passed in the dark. On their own gallery the stone heads bow, and the city of light keeps its lights on for her.
The saga is still growing. New queens and new chapters join the gallery as they are written, and Sweet Dreams herself runs to Chapter 15.
Original artwork and Story series by Merci Web Design Studio.