Max Iden
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Max Iden

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Max Iden writes literary dark fantasy for readers who understand that every gift is also an invoice—and that the small print is often where the monsters live.

His Pell & Niece series follows a family enterprise that has spent generations negotiating quiet arrangements with things best left unnamed. The bargains have kept the household prosperous, protected and largely intact. The payments have been less visible.

Then a granddaughter inherits the business and decides to audit the accounts.

What she finds is not simply a history of supernatural dealings, but a family legacy built from concealed costs, inherited obligations and promises whose original signatories are long dead. Some debts, however, survive everyone who made them.

The Pell & Niece novels are slow-burning, atmospheric and psychologically precise. They are less interested in what characters are willing to fight than in what they are prepared to trade—and what they tell themselves after the exchange. The prose is spare. The magic is old. The dread is patient.

In Iden’s fiction, the supernatural rarely arrives screaming. It appears in a familiar signature, an unexplained clause, a locked drawer or a favour that seemed harmless at the time. It waits politely. It keeps records. It always remembers what it is owed.

Iden came to fiction sideways, drawn to the point where folklore, family and accounting overlap: the ledger as a haunted object, the inheritance as a curse with a paper trail and the domestic secret as a contract still accruing interest. His work sits between gothic fiction, folk horror and the intimate pressure of the family drama.

The result is fantasy that owes as much to the kitchen table as it does to the grimoire. Here, ancient powers must coexist with probate, strained marriages, sibling resentment and the uncomfortable discovery that previous generations may have loved you deeply—and still left you responsible for their bargains.

At the heart of Iden’s work lies a persistent question:

If everything has a price, how much of yourself can you spend before nothing recognisable remains?

Max Iden is currently writing further novels in the Pell & Niece series. Follow him on Amazon to be notified when the next account comes due.
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    • The Keeper Who Kept

    • A Literary Fantasy of Grief, Memory, and the Courage to Let Go
    • By: Max Iden
    • Narrated by: AI Voice Female Synthesized Voice
    • Series: The Pell & Niece Series, Book 4
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-2026
    • Language: English
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