The World Beneath
Beneath Your Feet, Magic Stirs
The World Beneath is the hidden world layered beneath our own, where ghosts linger, magic pulses through forgotten streets, and those who can see the truth walk a dangerous line between the living and the otherworldly.
Solar Lodge
Based in Jacmel, Haiti, the Solar Lodge is a sacred order of Houngans and Mambos who channel divine magic through ancestral rites and community. They serve as spiritual guides and protectors, revealing truth, offering healing, and honoring the balance between worlds. “Faith is the flame; we are its wick.”
Magus Arcanum
The Magus Arcanum is the hidden authority behind the world’s arcane order—an ancient institution of mages sworn to uphold the Edicts of Magic and guard the balance between realms. From their stronghold in the Black Hills, they train, classify, and surveil all who wield arcane power. Their motto: Light, Order, Protection.
The Lillin
The Bloodlines of Lilith endure in secret: Waswas, the smokeless fire; Nekoda, trueborn houses of ancient blood; Tzaraath, the banished and forgotten; Sekhem, serpents with venomous grace. Each bears the mark of the First Mother—cursed and chosen, scattered and surviving, ever loyal to the hunger that made them.
My Books
A Vodou priestess. A left-handed bokor. A city unraveling at the seams. Magic isn’t safe. Faith isn’t quiet. And the World Beneath is calling her back.
A Vodou priestess. A magic-speakeasy. A left-handed bokor who won’t quit.
When the World Beneath comes calling, Terra has one shot to protect her people before the Lwa choose sides.
Book 3: Work in Progress
Coffee in hand. Badu in the ears. Fingers flying across the keyboard.
Janessa Miro has one rule: keep the wards intact and the drinks flowing.
About Brian Keith Dye
I’m Brian Keith Dye—queer, INTP, lifelong storyteller, and builder of hidden worlds. My debut novel Grave Matters marks the first descent into The World Beneath, an urban fantasy universe teeming with fractured magic, ancestral spirits, supernatural speakeasies, and the ever-blurring line between myth and memory. It’s a realm where the living and the dead share zip codes, and power never comes without a price.
“I went to school with crocodiles.” -Celestine Malveaux
“Yeah? Recess must’ve been a bitch.” -Terra Graves
Grave Matters
Dark Magic Rises, Stay Grounded
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