Julio Cevasco (Lima, 1985) is a peruvian translator, linguist, historian and autor who resides in Germany. His short stories have been published in many anthologies and magazines around the globe since 2014. Although his first published work appeared in the Peruvian magazine Relatos Increíbles as one of the most well rated, his popularity increased due to his dark fantasy short story Reencuentro in the Peruvian Horror Anthology Tenebra (compiled by Carlos Saldivar). Reencuentro includes profane topics like incest, human sacrifices, demonic rituals and sex with dark entities, which are described as "avant-garde for Cevasco's generation" by scholars Gonzalo del Rosario and Anaela Mendoza. Cevasco is also part of the group called "Los hijos de la cultura globalizada" (The Sons of the Globalized Culture) by the academic Elton Honores. Even if most of its members are horror autors, Cevasco uses horror atmospherics and topics in dark fantasy stories, high fantasy and grimdark fantasy. This approach makes him the pioneer of grimdark literature in his country and also one of the first, if not the first, grimdark autor in LATAN with the serialization of Tierras Moribundas, first book of Series La Balada del Nunca Amado, El ciclo de la cuadriga (Relatos Increíbles, 2015 - 2018). His continuity in the literary circuit allowed him to stay in the eye of editors like Carlos Saldivar and Jeremy Torres-Montero. During the following years his work got published in horror anthologies around the globe including The United States (Raíces Latinas) and Spain (Tentacle Pulp). The horror continues atmospherical while the topic keeps its focus on the main characters. On the year 2020 Speed Wagon Media Works (Torres Montero) publishes Dientes Negros, first book of Los Cantares del No Mundo series and second of El Ciclo de la Cuadriga. This stand alone novella follows the quest of a "caballero fata" in a continent located miles away of the island where the events in the previous book Tierras Moribundas took place. Cevasco repeats his formula in his next stand alone novella Los Mercenarios in 2021. The story follows another character in a dangerous quest, this time, against bandits who were infected with the plague partially showed on the previous book. In his interview in Liberías Crisol (Lima, November 2022) he says that his formula is to write stand alone novellas with different main characters and gradually explain the world mechanics in a quest that will mean the beginning of the protagonist journeys. Although Cevasco lives in Germany, he writes for a different public. "Writing high fantasy in LATAN", he said in his interview, "is different than writing fantasy in English countries. In Latin America there are basically no industry, there are other rules, there is another way of living, and according to this, the way to tell a story of this extension has to be different". He also states that he will continue writing short stories for magazines and anthologies as long as the themes match the topics of the series. Together with editors Torres-Montero and Dai N. Castillo he looks for fantasy hispanic autors who write short stories with world building and good character development for future fantasy anthologies. Deathward (2022) was the first to be published.