Michael G. Karabinis

Michael G. Karabinis is a Dark Fantasy author from the Greek island of Crete, the largest island in Greece. His interests, apart from writing and reading, include video gaming, astronomy, and physics.

After having received his degree in PC software programming—a profession he never pursued—and served the mandatory conscription period in the Greek armed forces, Michael began working on jobs that had nothing to do with writing.

He took an interest in writing in the Summer of 2019, during a rare night-shift of low workload due to a power blackout. He had often thought of keeping a journal of his Lucid Dreams which have always been a big part of his life, as he’s had them daily since he was a preschooler.

It all started with a lucid dream where three characters crossed paths inside a dark mansion and started fighting—I know, right? Following the advice of an old friend, Michael wanted to recreate that dream sequence in writing, as it had been especially vivid and exciting, setting the gears of his imagination spiralling out of control. That scene was supposed to be a single paragraph of maybe 300 words… It ended up being an oversized, full-blown chapter of 10000 words and is now acting as the genesis of his Dark Fantasy series, ‘The Blood Chasms of Illustrander.’ A series of novellas and novels heavily inspired by Greek Mythology and Folklore from around the world, with an emphasis on vampire themes.