PUBLISHED & UPCOMING WORKS
HORROR/SUPERNATURAL
Sanity Sets With The Sun
Release Date: October 23, 2025
A chilling descent into madness, memory, and the monsters that live just beyond the horizon—Sanity Sets with the Sun is a haunting literary vision from horror author Xander Defaye.
Step into a world where reality frays at the edges and the sun doesn’t just set—it abandons. In this unforgettable collection of horror and dark fiction, Defaye unearths the fragile thread between the mind and the unknown, guiding readers through stories where grief haunts the air, voices whisper through the static, and shadows know your name.
Sanity Sets with the Sun is a twilight journey through stories both intimate and terrifying—crafted for readers who know that the most frightening things don’t just go bump in the night… they wait until dying light.
HORROR/SUPERNATURAL
Cult Creek
Release Date: Spring 2026
A sinister suburban nightmare told in creeping dread and bone-deep paranoia—Cult Creek is a dark, unforgettable horror novel from Xander Defaye.
Welcome to Cult Creek, a pristine community with well-manicured lawns, friendly neighbors, and a homeowners association that knows everything about you. When a young author moves in with his wife and child, he thinks he’s found the perfect place to finish his next book. But he soon realizes that the house frogs never stop croaking. The trash ritual is always on time. And the HOA meetings? Let’s just say...Katherine expects your full dedication. And if you cant comply, dues cost you… your insanity… perhaps even your soul.
What begins as quiet discomfort soon spirals into something much more unholy. The house begins to change him. His thoughts aren’t his own. His writing dries up. And worst of all—he’s starting to see things. Cult Creek is a slow-burning descent into cultish suburbia, where compliance is survival and the real estate is... eternal.
HORROR/SUPERNATURAL
Stillshade
Release Date: Fall 2026
A haunting tale of legacy, addiction, and unraveling reality—Stillshade is a dark and emotionally charged descent into generational pain from Xander Defaye.
Maleek's father was once a proud, steady man—until the accident at Skyline Airlines shattered everything. The company buried the truth. The CEO walked away clean. And Maleek’s father was left broken, buried under prescriptions and silence. While his mother finds solace in someone else’s arms, Maleek is left trying to hold what’s left of his family together.
But when Maleek begins dreaming of a strange place where the addicted go to be “cleansed”—a paradise of purity or a prison of delusion—he starts to suspect there’s more to their pain than trauma and pills. He’s never been there... has he? Or has he returned again and again, without ever remembering?
As his father is pushed to sign away his dignity in exchange for hush money, Maleek must decide if survival means submission—or revolution. Stillshade is a surreal, slow-burning horror where addiction is both disease and destination, and healing might just be the most dangerous lie of all.