
This is a best-of-2025 reflection on Urban Fantasy author N. L. Bryar’s posts. It covers the upcoming book The Curse of the Unholy Grail, writing tools, use of AI by creatives, themes of duality in dhampir mythos, and more reader favorites.

The upcoming book “The Curse of the Unholy Grail” introduces FBI Agent Nicole Lange as her investigation of a mob arms-dealer takes a gruesome supernatural turn, one of Apocalyptic proportions. In the opening scene, she faces the unexplainable as a murder victim all but comes alive in her presence. She is as yet unaware she…

Announcing the chapter-titles of the upcoming urban fantasy book “The Curse of the Unholy Grail”, a tale of an FBI agent’s battle to stop the vampire Apocalypse, yet keep her humanity … if she survives at all.