Start Here to Read the Saga
Table of Contents/Reading Order
You’ve crossed into the strange.
Not by accident—by instinct.
The Black Craft Saga isn’t just a story. It’s a living world.
One haunted by the voices of dead prophets, unburnt witches, shattered angels, and ghost-laced islands still whispering their secrets.
If you’re here, maybe you’ve already heard the echoes.
What is this place?
We are Jon and Jenn Dottingly.
Writers. Worldbuilders.
Chronicler and Archivist of the Cursed and Divine.
We record what the world wants forgotten.
This Substack is where we share fiction born of the Black Craft universe, a mythic realm where cosmic fantasy collides with gothic horror—and nothing sacred stays safe.
You’ll meet:
Marissa Bonifay, ghost hunter, truth-seeker, sword-swinger.
The daughters of devils raised by witches to be more.
Madam Firosa, whose wails still haunt the Isle of Indamar.
Forgotten kings. Fallen angels. Eldritch bards. And things worse.
Some of it reads like prophecy. Some of it reads like memory.
All of it is alive.
📜 What to Expect:
🕯 Short stories, released regularly
🌀 Narrative logs and testimony — first-person accounts from those caught in the dark.
🖤 The Shadow Lineage — mythic, intimate, untamed stories from beyond the sanctioned scrolls.
📣 Dispatches — weekly updates, reader polls, behind-the-scenes insight.
🖋️ Thoughts on storytelling, worldbuilding, and how a once-broken YouTube channel became a gateway to something stranger.
If you love dark myth, clean prose, and soul-haunted storytelling—
If you’ve felt like the stories you wanted didn’t exist—
They do now.
Let’s start with ghosts.
Stories are coming. Darkness is stirring. Subscribe now to follow the tale from the very beginning.
—Jon and Jenn Dottingly
Short Stories:
The Chronicler’s Log
Serials:
The Shadow Lineage
Ashborn - Jenn Dottingly
Infamy’s Daughters
Slices of Midnight -Jon Dottingly
A Note from Jenn & Jon:
We’re updating how chapters are organized so the reading experience is clearer and the series can grow sustainably. Chapters 1–3 remain free for everyone, serving as the open gateway into the world. Chapters 4–6 are now part of the free-subscriber tier, meaning anyone with a free subscription will receive those chapters by email. Because of Substack’s limitations, these chapters remain locked in the archive, but we will happily resend them by email upon request to any free subscriber who needs access.
From Chapter 7 onward, the story enters the paid-subscriber tier. This ensures continuing support for the work while keeping the beginning of the saga accessible to new readers and giving free subscribers meaningful content before the paywall. This tiered structure—free for all, free for subscribers, and paid—creates a smooth progression that supports both engagement and the long-term development of the series.