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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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alexjennings.bsky.social
If there’s one thing I know, it’s that FANTASY never truly dies. It’s always a joy to work with them, and now is a GREAT time to click through and read work from a murderer’s row of talent—and ME!
February 6, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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thedeadlands.com
"She knew her time was ending. Just days, but she didn’t feel the strum of pain or the numbness of morphine. She just felt tired."

join us, beloveds, for today's must read NONFICTION 🖤

Bible Verses for the Dying and the Heathen by Robin Wheeler

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Bible Verses for the Dying and the Heathen - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
My parents’ home was never mine.
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February 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
hey, it's STILL fantasy friday! and though we're on hiatus, there's so much to read!

check out issue 99, featuring work by @alexjennings.bsky.social, @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social and many more 💖): psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

OR try something from our backlog 🦄 psychopomp.com/fantasy/back...
Fantasy Magazine - issue 99 | Psychopomp
Fantasy Magazine Issue 99 features work by: Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, Malena Salazar Maciá, Eleanor Glewwe, Alex Jennings, Cory Farrenkopf, and M. L. Krishnan
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February 6, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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👀👀
February 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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thedeadlands.com
"The latter half of the roll was tainted by light. From red glares, to pallid frames of exposure, like blood pouring into the whiteness of hell."

NEW FICTION, beloveds!!

On the Anthology Entitled “Frames of Colour and Un-Colour” by @prairieandzoyd.bsky.social

💀🖤

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On the Anthology Entitled “Frames of Colour and Un-Colour” - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
I write this to you now, under appreciable mental malady. Forgive me.
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February 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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arleysorg.bsky.social
Locus Awards voting is OPEN!

Anyone can vote, and you can write in any eligible titles, editors, publishers, artists, magazines, and more!

Even the Hugos usually see only two or three thousand votes, far fewer in some categories - your votes matter!🗳️

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February 5, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
"Krishnan captures the trio’s love, lust, loyalty, joy, and sorrows in a way that feels devastatingly real." (on "Ichthyosis")

Maria Haskins aka @mariahaskins.com has fantastic things to say about Issue 99 in the February Locus Magazine aka @locusmag.bsky.social !❤️‍🔥

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Fantasy Magazine - issue 99 | Psychopomp
Fantasy Magazine Issue 99 features work by: Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, Malena Salazar Maciá, Eleanor Glewwe, Alex Jennings, Cory Farrenkopf, and M. L. Krishnan
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February 3, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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we are

SO THRILLED

to see several of our novellas and a collection on the

@locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list

we want you to read those books! (and vote for them, YES, if you love them)

so we put them on SALE

OMR - $2.99
Starstruck - $1.99
NTHTDD - $1.99

you can get them here:
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!
psychopomp.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:25 PM
psychopomp.com
we are

SO THRILLED

to see several of our novellas and a collection on the

@locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list

we want you to read those books! (and vote for them, YES, if you love them)

so we put them on SALE

OMR - $2.99
Starstruck - $1.99
NTHTDD - $1.99

you can get them here:
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!
psychopomp.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:25 PM
psychopomp.com
GUESS WHAT

we are OPEN for 2025 AFTERLIVES: The Year's Best Death Stories subs!!

BUT (and this is SUPER IMPORTANT)

we are asking EDITORS to send us work this time

so WRITERS, be in touch with your editors

and READ ON for more info:

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Afterlives 2025: Reprint Call - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
You may have read about Psychopomp’s recent reorg, but we are still doing Afterlives 2025: The Year’s Best Death Stories!
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February 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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thedeadlands.com
a marketplace for souls trading in paper money
for an item from their loved ones.
something small
something unnoticed.

today, beloveds!! new POETRY:

in which Orpheus is a Hmong daughter by Phoua Lee

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in which Orpheus is a Hmong daughter - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
a marketplace for souls trading in paper money / for an item from their loved ones.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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thedeadlands.com
would you look at that!! we have a couple stories on the Locus recommended reading list and they are absolute bangers!!

“Highway 1, Past Hope“ by @mariahaskins.com

“his love’s ashes on his tongue“ by @montelin.bsky.social

locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
locusmag.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:31 PM
psychopomp.com
so excited to see these on the Locus recommended reading list!!

One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com
Starstruck by @aimeeogdenwrites.com
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
“Garden of the Bloodpotter“ by @babblewocky.bsky.social

locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
locusmag.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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premeemohamed.com
Also I didn't look at this on my telefone while I was in bed but I am up and making breakfast now so: eyyyyy thank you @locusmag.bsky.social for including ONE MESSAGE REMAINS in best collection on the recommended reading list! :)

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2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
locusmag.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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thedeadlands.com
“Today we are taking my daughter apart.”

TODAY beloveds

The Self-Made Women’s Circle by @marisca.bsky.social

read this gorgeous story here:

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The Self-Made Women’s Circle - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Today we are taking my daughter apart.
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January 29, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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thedeadlands.com
in case you missed it!

check out this fantastic flash story by @amfisher.bsky.social 💀🖤
thedeadlands.com The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 14d
"I’d dropped hundreds, maybe thousands, of coins into the skull of Francisco Xalbec, and I still wasn’t sure how full it was, but I knew with profound certainty that I had to fill it."

TODAY beloveds!! new fiction 🖤💀

The Skull of Francisco Xalbec by Alan M. Fisher

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The Skull of Francisco Xalbec - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Every time I died, I received another coin to place in the skull of Francisco Xalbec.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
We published three fantastic issues in 2025!🧜🏽

(The December issue pub date was Dec 1, even if things went "free online" later)

Reading for the Nebs, Hugos, SFPAs, Locus, and more? Give them a look!❤️‍🔥

psychopomp.com/fantasy/
Fantasy Homepage - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
FANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on the fantasy genre. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy-dark fantasy, contemporary
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January 26, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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neonhemlock.bsky.social
UPDATE: The Buildings Are Hungry and the Plague Can Speak
Fiction by Natalia Theodoridou in @psychopomp.com

Novelette. There's a slippage here, that I saw in Theodoridou's "Every Ghost Story" as well. A heady mix of the unsettling and banal.

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UPDATE: The Buildings Are Hungry and the Plague Can Speak - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The latest novelette by Natalia Theodoridou: Update: The Building Are Hungry and the Plague Can Speak, published by Psychopomp, read it for FREE.
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January 26, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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thedeadlands.com
"I’d dropped hundreds, maybe thousands, of coins into the skull of Francisco Xalbec, and I still wasn’t sure how full it was, but I knew with profound certainty that I had to fill it."

TODAY beloveds!! new fiction 🖤💀

The Skull of Francisco Xalbec by Alan M. Fisher

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
The Skull of Francisco Xalbec - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Every time I died, I received another coin to place in the skull of Francisco Xalbec.
psychopomp.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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thedeadlands.com
in case you missed it 🥀

the FIRST poem of issue 41 is live

and yours to read 🖤
thedeadlands.com The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 18d
"awoken!
by the opening blow
of a shut thing—
the latch!
of a short-sighted dog"

oh, beloveds

WHAT a poem!

bark! by Charlotte Suttee

read on 🖤

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bark! - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
bark! / awoken! / by the opening blow / of a shut thing
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January 23, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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joannemerriam.bsky.social
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Hunkeler's Secret by Schneider Hansjörg, trans Freuler Astrid (@bitterlemonpress.bsky.social) & One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com (@psychopomp.com). See alt-text!

#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for Hunkeler's Secret by Schneider Hansjörg, trans. by Freuler Astrid (Bitter Lemon Press): Mystery. Hunkeler, now a retired inspector of the Basel police force, is hospitalized following an operation. He’s sharing a room with cancer patient Stephan Fankhauser, an old acquaintance and former head of Basel Volksbank. One night, a groggy Hunkeler witnesses something that makes him question his senses: a young nurse is administering an injection to his friend. https://www.bitterlemonpress.com/products/hunkelers-secret Book cover for One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp): Science fiction/fantasy featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): " Through four connected stories set in the same world—about soldiers exhuming the souls of dead enemies, a family that builds bone gallows to execute prisoners, a soldier that deserts his unit, and a deadly ancient ceremony—readers are introduced to the cruelties and demands of an empire and the people trapped within it. Dark, eerie and thought-provoking, these stories show the importance of even the smallest acts of resistance." https://psychopomp.com/product/one-message-remains/
January 23, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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thedeadlands.com
HOLD THE PHONE

our very own

EXTRAORDINARY copy editor

@pronouncedlahra.bsky.social's Breathing Night (@spacecowboy17.bsky.social books)

is on the BFSA longlist!!!!

SKELETON SO PROUD!!!

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January 22, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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and it’s the spectacular @premeemohamed.com’s One Message Remains!!!! one the BFSA longlist! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
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January 22, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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so very excited to see @klschroeder.bsky.social’s Garden exquisite novella No One to Hold the Distant Dead on the BSFA longlist 🖤

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January 22, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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babblewocky.bsky.social
Thank you @psychopomp.com so much for all you did to distill my little wartime romance necro-horror into a book!
January 22, 2026 at 8:20 PM