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Publisher of otherworldly fiction @ Psychopomp.com

Publisher of death-focused magazine: @TheDeadlands.com

Publisher of @fantasymagazine.bsky.social

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · Nov 11
HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY

to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL

No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!

download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤

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No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
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some cool things you can do for your skeleton!

buy a novella (or two or three 🖤): psychopomp.com/books/

join the deadlands patreon 💀 and get your free digital copy of AFTERLIVES 2024 (also, prices raise on Jan 1!!): www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...
The Entire Psychopomp Book Collection - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Looking for something to read? Check out our entire collection of books that we've published--from novellas to collections and more!
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December 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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you want to check this post out

because WE CAN'T WAIT for you to read House, Body, Bird

it's weird

in the BEST WAY

💀🖤
bernie-jsyk.bsky.social bernie jean schiebeling (she/they) @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social · 3d
we have a release date from @psychopomp.com and some book cover news for House, Body, Bird!

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if you like weird dolls inside weirder houses, sign up for the newsletter! i don't spam, but i do make memes from vintage book covers
Ghosts of Bookish Future: Release Date Incoming!
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December 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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ecatherine.com
Our last print book at @psychopomp.com (at least for right now) will be this demented gem, come peek.
bernie-jsyk.bsky.social bernie jean schiebeling (she/they) @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social · 3d
we have a release date from @psychopomp.com and some book cover news for House, Body, Bird!

berniejeanschiebeling.kit.com/posts/ghosts...

if you like weird dolls inside weirder houses, sign up for the newsletter! i don't spam, but i do make memes from vintage book covers
Ghosts of Bookish Future: Release Date Incoming!
berniejeanschiebeling.kit.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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omg!!

Juggernaut by Alyza Taguilaso is up for best collection of poetry in the Philippine National Book Awards!!

and that collection includes "Time Skip" published in our issue 16! read the poem here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

or get the collection:

www.philippinebooks.com/products/jug...
Juggernaut by Alyza Taguilaso
About the book: Juggernaut is not for the faint-hearted. Its poems careen from surgical to surreal, attend to the comical and criminal, and dispense an unflinching diagnosis of all that ails the self,...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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AWWW YEAH
December 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
and our second FANTASY FRIDAY treat is POETRY ✨💖

"Too often I consider my rib cage hanging from
This tree or that I think of inked shadows"

Grove of Jealous Lovers by @alexjennings.bsky.social

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Grove of Jealous Lovers - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Too often I consider my rib cage hanging from / This tree or that
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December 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
and it's FANTASY FRIDAY!!

and we have two fantastic pieces to share

first up:

"The day Rosemary couldn’t remember her daughter’s name, she knew it was time."

A Cup of Forgetting by @eleanorglewwe.bsky.social

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A Cup of Forgetting - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The day Rosemary couldn’t remember her daughter’s name, she knew it was time.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Anyway! This seems like a good time to re-up my book that came out in February -- ONE MESSAGE REMAINS is a mini-collection with a brand-new novella and two new novelettes, plus one reprint, set in the same world!

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One Message Remains
Check out One Message Remains - <p>Pageantry, pomp, pretense, and peril-"The General's Turn," originally published in The Deadlands, drew readers into the dark world of a ceremony where Death herself ...
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December 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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ecatherine.com
Hoping to see more submissions from under-repped groups in my submissions—don't self-reject, it's easier to send me a story about death. We're open until 12/31 (midnight eastern).

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The Deadlands Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
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December 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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we've had an amazing year of novellas here at skelly headquarters, and we love

love

LOVE

No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social

get yourself, or someone you love, a little 🎁

psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
psychopomp.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
psychopomp.com
we've had an amazing year of novellas here at skelly headquarters, and we love

love

LOVE

No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social

get yourself, or someone you love, a little 🎁

psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
psychopomp.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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cjsubko.bsky.social
Here's my story in @thedeadlands.com from @psychopomp.com from this year!

Mind the CWs. 💙📚

If you like their stuff, consider becoming a patron. They're constantly putting out amazing content!

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The Twelve Deaths of You - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
SPRING 2025, SHORT STORY, 2700 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly […]
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December 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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ecatherine.com
Thank you, Charles, for a great peek into issue 40. @nicasio.bsky.social @vajra.me
cypayseur.bsky.social Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 10d
Short SFF Reading Update #quicksipreviews

The Deadlands Fall 2025 (7 originals plus 4 poems) @thedeadlands.com

An issue full of some strange and moving portrayals of death, grief, monsters, and history. Lots to chew on here, with a consistent denseness and layering of meaning.
December 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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HUZZAH!!

it's Starstuck by @aimeeogdenwrites.com on this list of December’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books!!

check all the goodness out here:

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Memory Rehab and Future History: December’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
The mornings are brisker, the evenings are darker—the year is winding down. You may, like me, be reevaluating your TBR from the past year and recalling books you had meant to read when you got them…
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December 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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foxesandroses.bsky.social
This story is brutal, sad, and vivid. It's about a girl and a pair of friends turned lovers and about a land, all swept up in the savagery of war, that leaves nothing behind but bones and tears.

by @babblewocky.bsky.social in @psychopomp.com
Garden of the Bloodpotter - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The latest novelette by Erin Brown: Garden of the Bloodpotter, published by Psychopomp, read it for FREE.
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December 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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✨✨ thanks so much to Tanya R. Moore and @roguestarmag.bsky.social for reviewing Garden of the Bloodpotter by @babblewocky.bsky.social!!

"a darkly captivating story that will whet readers’ appetites for the mysterious, the magical, and the macabre."

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Garden of the Bloodpotter by Erin Brown - Rogue Star Magazine
Garden of the Bloodpotter by Erin Brown is a dark fantasy novelette published by Psychopomp.  Hen is a scrawny and dirty neglected child, ostracized and...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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bernie-jsyk.bsky.social
i have news! my sapphic haunted house novella, House, Body, Bird, is coming out next February with @psychopomp.com, and i've put together a newsletter to keep y'all updated on release dates, reviews, ✨cover reveals✨, etc.

sign up at berniejeanschiebeling.kit.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
and our SECOND

FANTASY FRIDAY offering ✨

"Through your hair, your memories were transmitted, all that you were, all you would become, all that those before you had been."

The Matriarchs by Malena Salazar Maciá

read this fantastic flash story here:

psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
The Matriarchs - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
You explained to him that it was impossible. Through your hair, your memories were transmitted, all that you were, all you would become, all that those before you had been
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December 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
and it's FANTASY FRIDAY! ✨💖

and we've got another double offering for you!

first up: Collective Action: A Conversation with @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, and @older.bsky.social by @arleysorg.bsky.social

on We Will Rise Again

read in full here:

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Collective Action: A Conversation with Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Arley Sorg interviews Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older
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December 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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spencerwriting.bsky.social
Would you like to read a story about Charon (who uses a train now, not a dingy boat now, thank you very much) at the end of the universe, wondering what to do now that there are no more souls left to ferry? Buy this phenomenal anthology and check my story "At the End of Everything" out!
December 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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thedeadlands.com
hello. bsky friends

we just published a newsletter about recent updates + news to our electronic mail friends and thought we'd post it here as well

in case you are interested in deadlands NEWS

link:
deadlands updates + open for submissions!
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December 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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you've been waiting

and it's finally HERE!!

AFTERLIVES

curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social ✨🖤💀

get your ebook here!

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Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Stories, 2024 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Afterlives The Year’s Best Death Fiction 2024 Curated by Sheree Renée Thomas While Psychopomp aims to publish all the death fiction, we cannot possibly, so we decided to round up the best death storie...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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and THIS is the book in the interview OMG WE CAN'T WAIT

www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
December 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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a Fantasy Friday sneak peak 👀

Collective Action: A Conversation with @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, and @older.bsky.social, by @arleysorg.bsky.social

The Matriarchs, by Malena Salazar Maciá (flash!)

COMING FRIDAY but for $5 read all of 99 now! 💖

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Fantasy Magazine - Issue 99 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Welcome to Issue #99. This issue includes poetry, and short and flash fiction by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, Malena Salazar Maciá, Eleanor Glewwe, Alex Jennings, Cory Farrenkopf, and M. L. Krishnan.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
psychopomp.com
we can't possibly publish all the death fiction out there, so we've rounded up the year's best.

dive in to these stories about lives and afterlives, and see where they will take you 💀🖤
December 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM