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Stina Rundqvist
Stina Rundqvist writes atmospheric, lyrical fiction that weaves Nordic folklore, dark fantasy, and sensuality. Since her debut with The Dark Song (2024), she has quickly risen to become one of Sweden's most celebrated new fantasy voices, praised by readers and booksellers alike for her blend of Nordic folklore and romance. Her stories evoke forests, lakes, and small towns as living, immersive landscapes, exploring desire, danger, loyalty, and the supernatural with psychological depth, and drawing readers into worlds where myth and reality merge.
Rundqvist's fascination with folklore began close to home, growing up surrounded by the forests of Northern Sweden and the old tales told about what might live within them. That question — what if the creatures of legend were real, and still among us — became the foundation for Legends of the Hollow Woods (Mörkerväsen), a series that reimagines Scandinavian myth with a modern, sensual, and often unsettling edge.
Legends of the Hollow Woods
Series
A standalone dark fantasy series blending folk horror, dark romance, and supernatural suspense, rooted in Nordic folklore. Legends of the Hollow Woods brings three creatures of Scandinavian legend into the modern world: the Nix (The Dark Song), the Huldra (The Huldra), and the Vittra (Spirit of the Forest).
Written in Stina Rundqvist's atmospheric, lyrical prose, each novel follows a woman drawn toward these ancient beings — through grief, longing, or desperation — until seduction tips into obsession. What begins as an escape from ordinary life becomes something far more dangerous, as the boundary between myth and reality quietly dissolves.
The Dark Song
An immediate indie bestseller, The Dark Song is Stina Rundqvist's debut — a gothic tale of obsession rooted in the legend of the Nix, the deadly water spirit of Nordic myth.
Fresh from a painful breakup, Emilia retreats to an isolated cabin in the Swedish woods, where she falls under the spell of Nick, a violinist whose haunting music hides an otherworldly truth. As attraction deepens into obsession, the boundary between desire and danger begins to dissolve, drawing her into a world where folklore is very much alive.
ORIGINAL TITLE: Näcken (2024)
WORD COUNT: 62 000
The Huldra
The eagerly awaited The Huldra is a slow-burn, atmospheric tale that pulls readers deeper into the folklore of the Swedish wilderness — where beauty conceals danger, and desire comes at a price.
Struggling to save her debt-ridden café, Sigrid begins gathering berries in the forest near her home, where she stumbles upon a hidden swamp and the enigmatic Dante. As passion draws her further from the world she knows, Sigrid is pulled into a web of ancient secrets and buried darkness — and must confront what she has awakened, both in the forest and within herself.
ORIGINAL TITLE: Skogsrået (2025)
WORD COUNT: 61 000
Spirit of the Forest
A visceral, slow-burn tale of grief, rage, and the cost of trespassing where you don't belong. Spirit of the Forest follows Lovis, rebuilding her life after her mother's death, and Hilda, a forest spirit who wants nothing more than to be left alone. When a journalist convinced that a vittra still lives in the woods draws Lovis toward the wilderness, and missing teenagers bring a wave of searchers into her territory, Hilda's fury can no longer be ignored. An unflinching addition to Nordic folklore fiction, blending atmospheric tension with raw, unapologetic horror.
ORIGINAL TITLE: Vittran (2026)
WORD COUNT: 60 000
ORIGINAL TITLE: Pilar av hämnd
PUBLICATION: Seraf Förlag, December 2026
WORD COUNT: 61 000
A Crown of Arrows
A Crown of Arrows
Gothic romantasy where dramatic irony burns as hot as desire — a Robin Hood mythology reimagined
In the winter-bound kingdom of Luminor, poverty and fear are spreading. When Loxlei and her sick mother are banished for failing to pay their taxes, Loxlei believes Prince Marlowe — her closest friend and the man she loves — is responsible.
Determined to make him pay, she becomes an outlaw, stealing from the crown and giving its gold to the poor. But Marlowe never meant to cast her out. As twisted beasts emerge from the forest and forbidden magic begins to stir, their paths cross again — only to discover that their love may be as dangerous as the forces threatening Luminor itself.
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