The Flying Crapaud IV: Unexpected Door

Villagers who exploit the environment are haunted by a vengeful sea spirit. After a night out to celebrate a breakup, a young woman encounters a terrifying malevolent force. A sorcerer steals a sacred orb, plunging a village into eternal darkness. A child called Miracle, born with the gift of the third eye, is destined to save Dominica. A stubborn witch must stand for the old ways before a modernized Witches Council. A King defends his throne against a rival with giants for allies. A married man is seduced into a rendezvous with a mysterious stranger. These sci-fi/fantasy stories are enriched with Caribbean folklore, culture, and perspectives. What emerges is a literary experience as rich, captivating and nuanced as the islands themselves. Once you enter the worlds beyond the Unexpected Door, you will not want to leave… Available Now!

Folklore meets fantasy, myth collides with futurism, and we are back with soaring ambition. As the creative collective behind The Flying Crapaud Anthology Series, we’ve poured our hearts, our heritage, and our wildest imaginings into every volume, and now we’re preparing to launch the fourth. This upcoming book marks a bold leap into untamed creative terrain and the ever-expanding universe of Caribbean speculative imagination.

Those who’ve flown with us through the first three volumes already know the journey. We’ve rooted our stories in island myth, populated them with strange creatures and uncanny futures, and reimagined Dominican and Caribbean folklore in ways that crack open new worlds. With The Flying Crapaud III: Heroes & Monsters, we dug even deeper, stretching our wings into bigger ideas, bolder storytelling, and richer cultural vision.

And now here we are again, ready to rise higher.

This fourth volume isn’t just another anthology for us. It’s part of a growing creative movement. Our mission has always been to reflect the islands’ traditional mythologies and then widen them, to make every creature, every legend, every frightened boy at the spring, every young woman shadowed by ancestral force, part of a narrative that places the Caribbean at the heart of speculative storytelling. With book four, we’re taking that mission even further.

New stories await, new and continuing journeys, new monsters, new terrains, shifting timelines, and maybe even new rules of reality. If there’s one thing we’ve learned to promise, it’s this: expect the unexpected. Which is why our subtitle for the forth book is “Unexpected Door”
Earlier volumes gave you a boy haunted by gripping fear, a teacher challenged by village folklore, a young woman confronted by native legend. This time, we’re pushing beyond
even those boundaries.

Our ambition keeps growing. So does our family of writers. What began as a Dominica-rooted collective reaches across the Caribbean and far beyond, connecting voices that give every story both a local pulse and a global reach.

So what can you look forward to?

A timely launch, that will place the book in Caribbean shops and into readers’ hands worldwide. New characters, young and old, wrestling with island landscapes made strange. Mythical beasts awakening. Futures where tradition and technology dance. And that exquisite thrill of reading fiction born of a place, our Caribbean, but reaching for the universe.

For longtime fans, if you loved the first three, this fourth book is your next flight.

For newcomers, this is your boarding call. Join the ride of legends, monsters, and futures refracted through island light.