Stories where survival has a cost.

Gritty science fiction and noir-horror about salvage crews, broken cities, and the price of choosing wrong.

Start with Signal: the first book in the Node Black series.
A near-future salvage-horror where ships remember things they shouldn’t and every fix moves the danger somewhere else.

Not in the mood for sci-fi?

Try the Caldera Bay Files; modern noir with slow-burn supernatural rules, where missing persons, crooked cops, and things that should stay buried all carry a price.

David L. Bliss writes grounded, rule-driven genre fiction where choices matter and consequences follow.

Signal

Node Black Series –

Node Black

A hard-edge science fiction series where ships remember, systems grow opinions, and survival depends on consent as much as firepower. As the scale widens from derelict salvage to cosmic consequence, the real horror isn’t what’s hunting humanity, but what humanity teaches its tools to become.


Rooms

 

A Caldera Bay Files Series – 

Caldera Bay

A modern noir horror series set in a coastal city that doesn’t forget and doesn’t forgive. Detectives, criminals, and monsters circle the same truths about memory, guilt, and identity, while the supernatural stays quiet, rule-bound, and far more patient than anyone expects.

Seasonal Caldera Novellas

Nice Christmas
Tales From Caldera Bay
Volume 1
Naughty Christmas
Tales From Caldera Bay
Volume 1
Evil Christmas
Tales From Caldera Bay
Volume 2
Nice Christmas
Tales From Caldera Bay
Volume 2

Thanksgiving Offerings - Novella Release

Thanksgiving
Tales From Caldera Bay
Volume 1

Halloween Novella Releases

Halloween
Tales From Caldera Bay
Volume 1
Halloween
Tales From Caldera Bay
Volume 2
Halloween
Tales From Caldera Bay
Volume 3
Halloween
Tales From Caldera Bay
Volume 4

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