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17 years in the making.

A dark universe for people who grew out of nice stories. Music. Comics. Anime. Podcast. Books. One character. One canon. One channel.

EXORCISTA is a dark universe created by Victoria Unikel — a character, a catalog, and a mythology that started as a 2008 music project and became an anime anthology seventeen years later.

The flagship series, Games of Souls, is a 10-episode dark anime aired as YouTube Shorts. Its spin-off, Dark Fairytales, retells Grimm-era folklore as animated shorts. Its docs-series, Magic Lab, tests real rituals on camera. Its longest-running property — the Secrets, Spells & Shadows podcast — has two full seasons in the archive. The first literary grimoire, 77 Rites of Love and Obsession, ships Winter 2026. A mass-market thriller trilogy — Day Shift, Night Shift, Graveyard Shift — follows.

All four shows live on one channel: @TheExorcista. One soul counter. One tone. One canon.

The music is on Unikel Records. Press and media are handled by VUGA Media Group.

Universe timeline

From a 2008 music project to a 2026 anime universe. Seventeen years. One character.

Genesis

2008

The Exorcist music project launches. The first whisper of what becomes EXORCISTA.

2008 – 2013

200,000+ physical units sold independently. No major label. Pre-Sony era. The audience was built before the industry noticed.

2014

Orchard / Sony Music Entertainment picks up the catalog for worldwide re-issue. Industry footprint established.

Graphic Novel

2018 – 2019

EXORCIST graphic novel ships on Comixology. Presented at Comic-Con Las Vegas and San Diego Comic-Con. The character goes visual — a vigilante with a briefcase and a rule-book.

Development

2019 – 2024

The character rewrites herself. Universe bible. Film treatment. Novel outline. Masculine vigilante sheds his skin. FBI origin surfaces. The Collector emerges.

Canonical

February 6, 2025

The Exorcista is born. Live-action debut. Chains. Briefcase. Silver eyes. Collector of souls. 17 years in the making — finally with her own name.

2025

Secrets, Spells & Shadows podcast launches on @TheExorcista. Two full seasons recorded before going on hiatus for the Universe expansion.

June 1, 2025

Magic Lab premieres. Docs-series sister property. Real-world magic, practical occultism, and the experiments behind the mythology.

Universe

April 15, 2026

Games of Souls original soundtrack released worldwide. 13 tracks on every major DSP via Unikel Records.

April 18, 2026

@TheExorcista earns the YouTube Silver Creator Award at 131K subscribers.

May 1, 2026

Games of Souls EP1 premieres on YouTube. 10-episode dark anime anthology. New episode every 3 weeks.

October 30, 2026

Dark Fairytales premieres. Grimm-era folklore retold as dark anime shorts.

Winter 2026

77 Rites of Love and Obsession — Grimoire Series Vol. 1. A literary grimoire. First of five.

Coming

2027

EXORCISTA: Day Shift — novel, Vol. 1 of the Shift Trilogy. FBI years. Before the chains. How a Bureau agent learned every trick a killer knows — and why that wasn't enough.

TBA

EXORCISTA: Night Shift — Shift Trilogy Vol. 2. The crossover. The first soul she didn't arrest — she collected.

TBA

EXORCISTA: Graveyard Shift — Shift Trilogy Vol. 3. She runs both jobs at once. The Bureau is closing in. Hell wants more.

The creator

Victoria Unikel writes, produces, records, and performs everything that ships under the EXORCISTA name. Music, screenplays, comics, novels, podcast, soundtrack — one author, one voice, across every medium. Read her full press archive and biography.

Watch everything on one channel.

Games of Souls · Dark Fairytales · Magic Lab · Secrets, Spells & Shadows — one subscribe covers it all.

@TheExorcista on YouTube