My books and short stories available in English, and relevant projects.
The Lost Treasure Hunters and Other Tales of Folk Terrors
When you go treasure hunting on the mountain, make sure you leave enough clues for the rescue team to find you.
The collection contains: the found footage folk horror novella, a short story of a she-wolf who moved to the pictoresque mill village Rastoke only to learn it’s already a hunting ground for another monstrous woman, a story of a tired new mother filled with regret and repression who just can’t deal with the weird pink house and the strange, beautiful neighbour and her yappy dogs. And an epistolary novelette of strange sightings of the woman in white in a high school dorm and the teacher-educator who needs to get to the bottom of it (prequel to the dark urban fantasy novel From the Cradle to the Grave).
Titular novella won the Artefakt Award for the best literary work of Croatian speculative fiction (middle-length category) in 2024.
Secrets, lies, and deadly history come together in this dark urban fantasy novel with a spoonful of mystery and a pinch of horror, inspired by Croatian folk tales.
Read about Slavic inspiration on my “Story behind story”.
It Eats Us From the Inside
It Eats Us From the Inside is a quiet, claustrophobic near-future horror novella about changes from the outside and from within, ecological disaster, aquatic dread and Slavic folklore.
Shtriga
Shtriga is a small press from Croatia. Our aim is to provide speculative fiction books primarily by Croatian authors, sharing our stories with rest of the world.
For more information click on the title. Follow us on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram, for your daily dose of speculative fiction.
Shtriga got the ESFS award for Best Publisher (joint winner) at Eurocon 2021 in Fiuggi.
What’s in the box? What’s in the box?
Morina kutija is a Croatian online magazine for speculative fiction. It’s open for fiction and nonfiction alike. We also publish stories and reviews in English.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
Mora FM
Mora FM is a Croatian podcast on writing, publishing, and speculative fiction. I’m the editor and co-host alongside Vesna Kurilić and Igor Rendić.
Mora FM got the SFERA award in 2024 for the special contribution in the Croatian fandom.
The podcast is in Croatian and available at all the usual podcasting suspects.
What Do Nightmares Dream of
A sapphic horror comedy novella about a tired teacher that tries to live her life and have a good nights sleep, but instead has to deal with her own supernatural pest haunting her dreams.
Inspired by Slavic folklore featuring lesbian yearning and supernatural black cat.
Available in paperback and ebook.
My short sapphic gothic story All Sweet Souls is published in Unthinkable: A Queer Gothic Anthology.
On Stella’s windowsill, a candle burns. While the night falls and the bony hands start breaking from the ground, here she waits for her beloved. All Sweet Souls is a blooming sapphic romance in the shadow of a looming curse.
A short story about a monster lurking in the park, and two brave young women trying to fight it. Also one brave dog.
A sapphic horror tale filled with humor, gore, and a lot of blood. Written as a sort of Halloween prompt and is a prequel to the urban fantasy novel From the Cradle to the Grave.
You can read it for free at shtriga.com
Decameron 2020
I was part of the editorial for the literary project Decameron 2020: Stories from the Quarantine during the lockdown in the spring 2020. You can read some of the translated stories here.
Decameron 2020 got the ESFS award, at Eurocon 2021 in Fiuggi, for the Best Internet Publication.
The undiscovered, occasionally almost uninhabited remote areas of the old European land of Croatia hold secrets only the bravest of women can find. The only question is, will they survive the discovery or be taken into darkness as the land demands?
Mistress of Geese is a collection of folk horror tales about isolation, loneliness, destructive powers of nature, magic and creatures lurking in the dark.
PUSH!: An Anthology of Childbirth Horror
My short body horror story Just Like a Certain Chocolate Egg Toy is published in PUSH! Weird and disturbing childbirth, straight out of nightmares, with social commentary.
About the antho: The stories in this anthology are painful and dark. A surprising parasite deeply planted in its mother’s womb. A harrowing choice made by a mother with no options. Demon babies. Post-partum madness. Lifeblood lost.
Slavic Supernatural: An Anthology of Slavic-Inspired Speculative Fiction
An anthology co-edited with Vesna Kurilić. Dive into these eleven stories of seasonal changes, life, and Slavic wonder!
Harbingers of Spring (Morina kutija, issue 4, December, 2022)
Harbingers of Spring is a short sapphic folk horror story about sweet date for Valentine’s Day turned into a nightmarish mythical play.
Inspired by carnival tradition of Novi Vinodolski (Croatia) that has the roots in the Slavic pagan rituals.
You can read it for free on the Morina kutija web page.
My story What Lies Tangled in the River Grass was published in the anthology Folk Tales from the Hinterland by Gurt Dog Press. It’s about monstrous women from Croatian folklore. Now available in the collection The Lost Treasure Hunters and Other Tales of Folk Terrors.
Haunted Narratives 