The Phantom Pulse
@thephantompulse.bsky.social
The Phantom Pulse is a biannual speculative fiction magazine of the grey corners of humanity, dread that permeates the skin, and the bizarre.
We publish traditional horror, sci-fi horror, dark fantasy, and the weird.
thephantompulse.com
We publish traditional horror, sci-fi horror, dark fantasy, and the weird.
thephantompulse.com
Week one of submissions has been incredible! Looking forward to more.
In the meantime, our Patreon is officially live. If you are looking to support us in the lead up to our first issue, check it out.
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In the meantime, our Patreon is officially live. If you are looking to support us in the lead up to our first issue, check it out.
www.patreon.com/14807269/join
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January 8, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Week one of submissions has been incredible! Looking forward to more.
In the meantime, our Patreon is officially live. If you are looking to support us in the lead up to our first issue, check it out.
www.patreon.com/14807269/join
In the meantime, our Patreon is officially live. If you are looking to support us in the lead up to our first issue, check it out.
www.patreon.com/14807269/join
Check it out: the story of the week! "I Think She is Starting to Suspect Something" by @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social in @bafflingmag.bsky.social issue #22 is a slinking tale of Yearning that'll leave you looking askance at the faces of those you know and love
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
I Think She Is Starting to Suspect Something — Baffling Magazine
by Yeonsoo Julian Kim “When I was born, I had nothing.”
www.bafflingmag.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Check it out: the story of the week! "I Think She is Starting to Suspect Something" by @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social in @bafflingmag.bsky.social issue #22 is a slinking tale of Yearning that'll leave you looking askance at the faces of those you know and love
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
The haunt begins today.
January 1, 2026 at 6:16 PM
The haunt begins today.
The Phantom Pulse opens for submissions tomorrow! Check our guidelines and instructions for sending stories and art at thephantompulse.com
The Phantom Pulse – a speculative fiction magazine
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December 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Phantom Pulse opens for submissions tomorrow! Check our guidelines and instructions for sending stories and art at thephantompulse.com
Last Story of The Week before we open for subs: “Who Are You Wearing?” by @russellnichols.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. We enjoyed this balanced bite of a story that picks at and peels back the layers of human autonomy and family until all you see is the exoskeleton that moves you.
December 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Last Story of The Week before we open for subs: “Who Are You Wearing?” by @russellnichols.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. We enjoyed this balanced bite of a story that picks at and peels back the layers of human autonomy and family until all you see is the exoskeleton that moves you.
It's time for the story of the week! Give a read to "Songs Never Sung" by @premeemohamed.com in Issue 46 of @3lobedmag.com. So much broken world and endless years delivered in the few words of a decaying yet deathless protagonist. It's what your weekend needs 🖤
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
3LBE Magazine - Songs Never Sung by Premee Mohamed
It only ever spoke to me once and that was to say Do not sleep too deeply. Said upon departure, an aside tossed over its shoulder like salt. I paid little attention; I was staring at the thing it had ...
www.3lobedmag.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It's time for the story of the week! Give a read to "Songs Never Sung" by @premeemohamed.com in Issue 46 of @3lobedmag.com. So much broken world and endless years delivered in the few words of a decaying yet deathless protagonist. It's what your weekend needs 🖤
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
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I have two starter packs with speculative fiction publications - magazines, podcasts, and publishers. You can follow all or some from these lists.
1. bsky.app/starter-pack...
2. bsky.app/starter-pack...
1. bsky.app/starter-pack...
2. bsky.app/starter-pack...
December 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I have two starter packs with speculative fiction publications - magazines, podcasts, and publishers. You can follow all or some from these lists.
1. bsky.app/starter-pack...
2. bsky.app/starter-pack...
1. bsky.app/starter-pack...
2. bsky.app/starter-pack...
Our story of the week: "Hope is the Thing with Circuits and Steel" by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska from FFO. The story is weird and ripe with warnings for humanity. Grannies. Consumption. A question probing the nature of emotion acquisition. Give it a read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social.
December 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Our story of the week: "Hope is the Thing with Circuits and Steel" by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska from FFO. The story is weird and ripe with warnings for humanity. Grannies. Consumption. A question probing the nature of emotion acquisition. Give it a read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social.
One month stands between us and your stories. Join our discord to discuss and be in community with other writers of horror 💀 discord.gg/28uMZrBwjf
Join the The Phantom Pulse Magazine Discord Server!
Check out the The Phantom Pulse Magazine community on Discord - hang out with 8 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
One month stands between us and your stories. Join our discord to discuss and be in community with other writers of horror 💀 discord.gg/28uMZrBwjf
SOTW: “The Last Minute Before the Rooster Crows” by Malena Salazar Maciá in The Deadlands. This story of twisted mathematics, the dying breaths of a mother, and odd inheritance had us calculating our love for the inexplicable weird and the hope in horror.
@thedeadlands.com
@thedeadlands.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
SOTW: “The Last Minute Before the Rooster Crows” by Malena Salazar Maciá in The Deadlands. This story of twisted mathematics, the dying breaths of a mother, and odd inheritance had us calculating our love for the inexplicable weird and the hope in horror.
@thedeadlands.com
@thedeadlands.com
Our story of the week is “Things I Don’t Tell My Sister” by MM Schreier in Factor Four Magazine.
This story teases you with one horror of sisterhood only to hit you with a different one altogether at the end. Short, sweet, and sublimely messed up.
@mmschreier.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
This story teases you with one horror of sisterhood only to hit you with a different one altogether at the end. Short, sweet, and sublimely messed up.
@mmschreier.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Our story of the week is “Things I Don’t Tell My Sister” by MM Schreier in Factor Four Magazine.
This story teases you with one horror of sisterhood only to hit you with a different one altogether at the end. Short, sweet, and sublimely messed up.
@mmschreier.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
This story teases you with one horror of sisterhood only to hit you with a different one altogether at the end. Short, sweet, and sublimely messed up.
@mmschreier.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
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Very excited for this new issue of @factorfourmagazine.com. I've got a little #scifi #flashfiction in it called "Things I Don't Tell My Sister"
Also pleased to share the issue with my #amwriting friend & critique partner the talented @aerynrudel.bsky.social
Check it out here:
Also pleased to share the issue with my #amwriting friend & critique partner the talented @aerynrudel.bsky.social
Check it out here:
NOVEMBER ISSUE is now live: factorfourmag.com/category/iss...
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Very excited for this new issue of @factorfourmagazine.com. I've got a little #scifi #flashfiction in it called "Things I Don't Tell My Sister"
Also pleased to share the issue with my #amwriting friend & critique partner the talented @aerynrudel.bsky.social
Check it out here:
Also pleased to share the issue with my #amwriting friend & critique partner the talented @aerynrudel.bsky.social
Check it out here:
We’ve been reading ancient tomes (recently published mags) in search of eldritch truths (Friday’s story of the week). What have you read this week?
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We’ve been reading ancient tomes (recently published mags) in search of eldritch truths (Friday’s story of the week). What have you read this week?
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🕯️ The Phantom Pulse is open Jan 1–Feb 14, 2026!
Seeking speculative fiction that lingers in the grey corners of humanity - dread that seeps under the skin, strange obsessions, and the beautifully bizarre.
💰 $0.03/word (unpublished)
📖 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@thephantompulse.bsky.social
Seeking speculative fiction that lingers in the grey corners of humanity - dread that seeps under the skin, strange obsessions, and the beautifully bizarre.
💰 $0.03/word (unpublished)
📖 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@thephantompulse.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🕯️ The Phantom Pulse is open Jan 1–Feb 14, 2026!
Seeking speculative fiction that lingers in the grey corners of humanity - dread that seeps under the skin, strange obsessions, and the beautifully bizarre.
💰 $0.03/word (unpublished)
📖 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@thephantompulse.bsky.social
Seeking speculative fiction that lingers in the grey corners of humanity - dread that seeps under the skin, strange obsessions, and the beautifully bizarre.
💰 $0.03/word (unpublished)
📖 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@thephantompulse.bsky.social
This is Phantom Pulse's first story of the week!
From Cosmic Horror Monthly comes "The Ones at the Top Didn't Fall There" by Joule K. Zelman. The story is pleasantly weird, the pacing is seamless, and the characterization is delightful.
Shout out to Joule K. Zelman!
@joulekzelm.bsky.social
From Cosmic Horror Monthly comes "The Ones at the Top Didn't Fall There" by Joule K. Zelman. The story is pleasantly weird, the pacing is seamless, and the characterization is delightful.
Shout out to Joule K. Zelman!
@joulekzelm.bsky.social
The Ones at the Top Didn’t Fall There – Cosmic Horror Monthly
cosmichorrormonthly.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This is Phantom Pulse's first story of the week!
From Cosmic Horror Monthly comes "The Ones at the Top Didn't Fall There" by Joule K. Zelman. The story is pleasantly weird, the pacing is seamless, and the characterization is delightful.
Shout out to Joule K. Zelman!
@joulekzelm.bsky.social
From Cosmic Horror Monthly comes "The Ones at the Top Didn't Fall There" by Joule K. Zelman. The story is pleasantly weird, the pacing is seamless, and the characterization is delightful.
Shout out to Joule K. Zelman!
@joulekzelm.bsky.social
Starting tomorrow, we will be shouting out recent stories we enjoyed every week!
November 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Starting tomorrow, we will be shouting out recent stories we enjoyed every week!
Deepen your grim connection to The Phantom Pulse by joining our discord community! Expect conversations about writing, reading, living, and breathing horror and updates on our mag. Link is on our website at thephantompulse.com
The Phantom Pulse – a speculative fiction magazine
thephantompulse.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Deepen your grim connection to The Phantom Pulse by joining our discord community! Expect conversations about writing, reading, living, and breathing horror and updates on our mag. Link is on our website at thephantompulse.com
From writers of horror for writers of horror
November 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
From writers of horror for writers of horror
Send this to a writer/reader/artist you know!
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Send this to a writer/reader/artist you know!
The first issue of The Phantom Pulse is coming in May. Send us stories and reprints to consider in January!
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The first issue of The Phantom Pulse is coming in May. Send us stories and reprints to consider in January!
In case you didn’t see our submission guidelines, here is what we’re looking for!
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In case you didn’t see our submission guidelines, here is what we’re looking for!
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We launched our new horror magazine today! Check us out at thephantompulse.com and help us spread the word.
November 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We launched our new horror magazine today! Check us out at thephantompulse.com and help us spread the word.