An Independent Publishing House
An Independent Publishing House
Literary Fantasy & Speculative Fiction
Pontus House publishes fiction drawn from deep water and long memory—ancient in spirit, built to outlast its age.
Forthcoming — Debut Title
The Salt & Stone Chronicles · Book One
The inaugural volume of a new fantasy saga—and the first book to carry the Pontus House mark. A story of salt, stone, and the things the tide refuses to keep.
Register your interest → Final cover to be revealed · Presale opening 2027The House
We are a small, independent press for readers who want a book to weigh something—stories with the craft of the old world and the reach of the new.
Every title is edited with patience and made as a lasting object—considered on the page and in the hand. We publish fewer books, and stand behind each one.
Literary fantasy, speculative fiction, and the long form. Work that borrows the grammar of legend to ask distinctly modern questions.
Independently founded and owned. We keep the writer close to every decision, from first edit to final imprint.
On the Name
Pontus was the primordial sea of Greek myth—the deep that came before the gods. Our mark is the hippocampus, the sea-horse of antiquity that drew the chariots of the tide.
Together they name what we publish: stories that rise from old, deep water and carry the reader somewhere new.