C.R Ashby writes literary dark fantasy in which the supernatural mechanism operates at the intersection of neuroscience and dimensional physics — a system with coherent internal logic that her protagonists learned, over many years, to pathologize in themselves.
Her fiction lives in the gap between what the protagonist observes and what she has been trained to believe about what she observes. That gap is never wide enough to be obvious. It is always wide enough to make the reader uneasy.
The prose is cool. Not cold - there is emotion underneath it, and the reader feels it — but the surface is controlled, precise, and deliberately withholding. The atmosphere is not decoration. It is the argument. The wrongness of the dimensional bleeding, the specific texture of what the protagonist perceives, is carried in the atmosphere before it is named.
The Veil Saga is her primary series. C.R. lives in the Northeastern United States.
