The house
How these books are made.
Everything a reader might reasonably want to know before spending money here, including the parts that are easier not to mention.
A drawing before every chapter
Across five books, 188 pen-style drawings pick out the objects, rooms and small details of the Long Dusk. Each sits on its own page before the chapter begins.
Every number here is measured
Page counts are read from the illustrated print files and word counts from the manuscripts. Nothing on this site is rounded up to sound better. Edition prices are shown separately from shipping and tax.
The books are written to a fixed contract
Each volume is a complete romance with its own couple and an ending that does not require the next book. Each carries one named instrument and never reuses the last one's. The series never fades to black, never eroticises a refused no, and never puts anyone under eighteen in a sexual situation. Those are rules, not preferences.
British English, and a pen name
A. M. Vespertine is a pen name. The books are set in British English and spelled that way on purpose, including in the American editions.
Buying direct
Choose a perfect-bound paperback or case-wrap hardcover. Both have matte colour covers and a black-and-white illustrated interior on cream paper.
The record
Every volume, its measured extent and its place in the series, in one machine-readable file: catalog.json. The same facts in prose, for anything summarising the series rather than browsing it: llms.txt.
| No. | Volume | Pages | Illustrations |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | The Tithe | 408 | 42 |
| II | The Hunt | 384 | 40 |
| III | The Last Light | 370 | 36 |
| IV | The Sleep | 378 | 35 |
| V | The Long Dawn | 376 | 35 |