PUBLISHED & UPCOMING WORKS
HORROR/PSYCHOLOGICAL/SUPERNATURAL
Sanity Sets With The Sun
Release Date: October 31, 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
The Stillshade
Release Date: 4.8.26
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.
HORROR/SUPERNATURAL
Enlightenment
Release Date: May 2026
Rome never believed in prophecy—until the future begins revealing itself to him.
What starts as fleeting flashes soon grows into something far more unsettling. Visions. Warnings. Moments that unfold exactly as he saw them before they ever happened. As Rome struggles to understand the strange ability taking hold of his mind, a man from a past long buried suddenly returns—his father, who abandoned him thirty years ago.
The visit coincidental after news of an inheritance from a side of the family Rome never knew existed. But the deeper Rome’s sight reaches into the lives around him, the more one terrifying truth becomes clear: everyone can be read… except the man who shares his blood.
And if Rome cannot see his father’s future, it may be because something far worse is waiting in it.