The Deadlands
All Issues
Forty-two issues of stories, poems, and essays about death and what comes after.
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Issue 42
2026
Fiction
- The City in White Diana Dima
- What the Trees Took Back Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr.
- Lurid Parts Maya Ysabel Ng
- The Dog Phoenix Mendoza
- In This Corner Of the World A. E. Weisgerber
Poetry
- We’re Running out of Fingers for All This Counting Kelsey Dean
- After Messiaen: A Quartet for the End of Time R.B. Lemberg
- No Mother to Replace Nosawema O.
Issue 41
2026
Fiction
- You Build Your House on Your Father’s Corpse Sadoeuphemist
- Sole Aliya Whiteley
- A Woman Is Screaming Joe Koch
- Mushaboom Jeremy Morris
- On the Anthology Entitled “Frames of Colour and Un-Colour” Dmitri Akers
- The Self-Made Women’s Circle Marisca Pichette
- The Skull of Francisco Xalbec Alan M. Fisher
Poetry
- The Breeze & the Black Door Mack W. Mani
- Babe gray lindsey
- in which Orpheus is a Hmong daughter Phoua Lee
- bark! Charlotte Suttee
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer: C’est ici de l’empire de la Mort Amanda Downum
- Bible Verses for the Dying and the Heathen Robin Wheeler
Issue 40
2025
Fiction
- Liminalities of the Second Contraction Scott Payne
- Punks Don’t Die Kat Sedia
- The Pretendian Jason Pearce
- The Ghost of Cerrera Orbital Station Makes Herself Known Laila Amado
- The Destruction of All That is Good and Holy, Otherwise Known as Green Beans Erin Ulm
- Hamaka, Leave Me Alone Testimony Odey
- The Last Minute Before the Rooster Crows Malena Salazar Maciá
Poetry
- Not a Bird Ellen Romano
- Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal R.B. Lemberg
- I had a dream and in the dream I knew I was dreaming so I believed I could change things Shana Ross
- Amanita Season Belle Biscotti
Nonfiction
- The Ritual Matthew Wollin
Issue 39
2025
Fiction
- One More Episode Ashok Banker
- Little Trinkets A. J. Sharpe
- Miles To Go Before I Sleep Beth Goder
- Plus One Olufunmilayo Makinde
- Deliquescence Kelsea Yu
- Everlasting Daniel Oluremi
- For Those Who Stay Buried Amanda Cecelia Lang
Poetry
- quietude II Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi
- Séance Elizabeth Wing
- Query Telling on Other Elder Michael Hessel-Mial
- The Clothier of the Sunless Arda Mori
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer: Fun with Formaldehyde Amanda Downum
- Blind Date With a Corpse RJ Aurand
Issue 38
2025
Fiction
- Fractionated Doses Don’t Quench the Thirst of Those Who Knew the Whole Le Werner
- The Wanderer C.T. Muchemwa
- Penny For Them Die Booth
- The Twelve Deaths of You C.J. Subko
- Whalesong Guan Un
- Soul Shepherds Joshua Lim
- Highway 1, Past Hope Maria Haskins
Poetry
- The Interrogation of Saint Winifred Caroline Shea
- Flesh Ghosts Andrew Kozma
- After the Storm Ishita Basu Mallik
- Treatise of the Lyric on the State of Things Justin Cruzana
Nonfiction
- John Penelope K. Parker
Issue 37
2025
Fiction
- The Scythe and Other Simple Mechanisms T.E.Z. Moore
- Saint Gremmy Robert Nazar Arjoyan
- The Path She Sings Vanessa Fogg
- his love’s ashes on his tongue Monte Lin
- Extreme Sports Club for Octogenarians Kate Lechler
Poetry
- Things for which I have not ascertained your consent R.B. Lemberg
- The Language of Fireflies Angela Liu
- Suffer the Blessing Aaron Knuckey
- the river Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer: The Autopsy of a Horror Film Amanda Downum
- Five Treasured Tropes of SFF K-Dramas Cressida Blake Roe
Issue 36
2024
Fiction
- Gravediggers Nat Nguyen
- The Last Great Beautiful Leap Haden Cross
- The Feast Night of Vengeful Ghosts Lavie Tidhar
- Catalogue of the Exofaithful Practices on Exoplanet SSR24-∞ Marisca Pichette
- On the Existence of Ghosts, As If James Van Pelt
- The Empty Ones Vivian Shaw
Poetry
- Hiatus River
- Shattered Souls at Heaven’s Gate Ayòdéjì Israel
- The Price of Becoming a Villain Is to Quell One’s Kin in a Charade of Pact with The Gods Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan
- When The Dead Come in Pieces Will You Remain Unstained Shana Ross
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- Liturgy of the Hours Soni Brown
Issue 35
2024
Fiction
- Three Things That Happen the Night My Dad Dies Isabel Cañas
- End-of-Life Lauren Ring
- Rachel Is at a Protest Esther Alter
- The Rerebirth of Slick Stephen Kearse
- Raising an Ancestor Kay Mabasa
- The Ecological Impacts of Resurrection: A Field Study Corey Farrenkopf
Poetry
- The Handsome Men Richard Leis
- The High Priestess Falls in Love with Death Ali Trotta
- Inverse Requiem Abhinav
- Spawn Red Meat Arachnid Chris Panatier
Nonfiction
Issue 34
2024
Fiction
- The Clockmaker Marc Joan
- The Weather Man Stephen M.A.
- The City Unsleeping Anya Leigh Josephs
- I Love Him Artichoke Anna-Claire McGrath
- doorbell dot mov Jennifer R. Donohue
- The Slave Boy Denzel Xavier Scott
Poetry
- Intersections of grief Diana Dima
- Carbon Cycle Lindsay King-Miller
- the golden armor of science
- When the Sounds of Fallen Patriots Break into the Wind, I Will Play Dead Olalekan Daniel Kehinde
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- Etch A Sketch Stephanie French
Issue 33
2024
Fiction
- Your Sword, Your Trumpet Anjali Patel
- Totality Brandi Sperry
- Symphony of the World’s Roots Damián Neri
- Auspicium Diana Dima
- The Glass Sarcophagus Tiffany Morris
- Threnody in Dark Wood Avra Margariti
Poetry
- For Kristen, Who Would Have Turned 47 Today Melissa Frederick
- Mourning Person Anuja Mitra
- Earth as Eidolon Alexander Atreya
- Inferno guts Manila Mark Cunanan
Nonfiction
- Your Body Conquers Death Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos
Issue 32
2024
Fiction
- Image Not Found: Francesca’s Bridge Aimee Picchi
- Notes From the Delta Spirits John Lighthouse
Poetry
- Untitled Abhinav
- prim pressed posies Ai Jiang
- Troop No. 80085 Marisca Pichette
Nonfiction
- On “Paranormal Chaplaincy,” Leanna Renee Hieber
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
Issue 31
2023
Fiction
- Hollow Are the Bones E.E. Cypher
- Crumpled Steve Toase
- Remember This When They Find You Margaret Dunlap
- My Bonsai Lover in Winter Rachael K. Jones
Poetry
- How the Blubber Boy Came to Be Shantell Powell
- Taxidermist’s Lullaby Hana Gammon
- Five of Cups Considers Forgiveness Ali Trotta
Nonfiction
- Irrepressible Thoughts of Death and Other #justgirlythings Shreejita Majumder
Issue 30
2023
Fiction
- All the Things I Know About Ghosts Isabel Cañas
- In the Forest of Talking Animals Makena Onjerika
Poetry
- Sisyphus, Mid-Flight Leah Bobet
- Kagewani Betsy Aoki
- Bathsheba’s Corsage Elena Sichrovsky
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- Lifting the Veil Between the Dead and the Living: Día de los Muertos in Oaxaca N.K. van Riemsdijk
Issue 29
2023
Fiction
- Just Another Door Alexandra Seidel
- Sitting Shiva Zachary Rosenberg
Poetry
- We Inhaled This Wanderlust Tehnuka
- Vertigo Abhinav
- A Lace of Music Damilola Omotoyinbo
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- #587 Mourn for Relatives MK Zvokel
Issue 28
2023
Fiction
- The Ferryman Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira
Poetry
- Next Time Sitawa Namwalie
- The Greatest Country in the World Rafiat Lamidi
- The Dead Boy Inside Me Angel Leal
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- Seeing Death: Exploring Dark Omens from Scottish Folklore Lyndsey Croal
Issue 27
2023
Fiction
- Till the Greenteeth Draw Us Down Josh Rountree
Poetry
- If I Leave You with Moonlight Felicia Martinez
- Driftwood Dead D.B. Goman
- Persephone Takes Up the Garnets Ursula Whitcher
Nonfiction
- A Catholic’s Guide to the Afterlife Julia LaFond
Issue 26
2023
Fiction
- Death Is a Diner at 3:00 a.m. A.C. Wise
- There’s a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead Sarah Pinsker
Poetry
- Questions and Answers Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi
- Behiihoo Sunnie Smith-Ishtimonabi’
- bonelight Lucas Enne
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- Be Like Sesame Vijayalakshmi Sridhar
Issue 25
2023
Fiction
- Memoria Steve Rasnic Tem
- Place of Four Winds Gabriel Mara
Poetry
- It Takes Time For the Body Andrew Kozma
- Mud Season Thomas Mixon
- Existence of Icarus as a Binary Code. My friend dies under a hawk’s breath. & Alzheimer’s as remedy to undo Loss Chinedu Gospel
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- Ghosts Jennifer Rumberger
Issue 24
2023
Fiction
- Things We Did by the Windmill Katie McIvor
- Jar Erin Brown
Poetry
- Pilgrimage Saheed Sunday
- Alternate Beginning, Alternate Ending Animashaun Ameen
Nonfiction
- A Dog, a Heart, a Box of Ashes, or Whom Rhodope Shed Tears For Maria Haskins
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
Issue 23
2023
Fiction
- Notes From a Pyre Amal Singh
Poetry
- Disrespectfully Beatrice Winifred Iker
- Tower of Owls Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan
- Fet Gedé Lysz Flo
Nonfiction
- Moving Memorials: Adornments and Altars as Sites of Remembrance Julia Mallory
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
Issue 22
2023
Fiction
- You Row and You Burn Elou Carroll
- Amma’s Kitchen Rati Mehrotra
Poetry
- Song of the Last Hour Samuel A. Betiku
- Bougainville Nnadi Samuel
- flood fish/pumpkin moon Grace Cahill
Nonfiction
- Don’t Fear the Reaper: How Death in The Sandman Allowed Me to Overcome My Fear Of Dying J.D. Harlock
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
Issue 21
2023
Fiction
- Chamberstar: The Accabon Sam Rebelein
Poetry
- Semblance Olaitan Humble
- In the Storm, a Country Omodero David Oghenekaro
Nonfiction
Issue 20
2023
Fiction
- L’Homme de Houbigant Jonathan Louis Duckworth and Joe Koch
- Harvest of Bones Eugenia Triantafyllou
Poetry
- Eight Synonyms for Shroud Laura McPherson
- I Hold Ghosts in My Hands Catheryne Gagnon
- Driving in Lake County, Illinois Morgan L. Ventura
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- Homegoings and Repasts DW McKinney
Issue 19
2022
Fiction
- The Counting Ghosts Bernie Jean Schiebeling
- Pleiades Wesley Woolf
Poetry
- In the middle of the night, with the deer Christine Barkley
- In the absence of death Shannan Mann
- Oddment of the Damned Madison Rahner
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- The Call of the Void Tyler Hein
Issue 18
2022
Fiction
- The Watchers in the Stairwell Emily Henry Burnham
- Death Work K.S. Walker
Poetry
- Grief does not wait for Death Karan Kapoor
- I’m Gonna be a Country Girl Again Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- Burning Sassafras Cassie E. Brown
Issue 17
2022
Fiction
- Older Octavia Cade
- The Time I Watch the Foxes Drink Jonothan Pickering
- A Dervish among the Graves of Ghazni Tanvir Ahmed
Poetry
- Toaster Poem Nathaniel Krenkel
- Gorgon. Chemotherapy. Party Time. David Arroyo
- My dead aunt visits me in the dream. But, my phone autocorrects Dead Aunt as Dear Ant Chinedu Gospel
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
Issue 16
2022
Fiction
- The Greatest Mercy Micah S. Vernon
- WE Phoenix Alexander
Poetry
- Believe the Graves Rasha Abdulhadi
- Life After Felicia Martinez
- Unharbored Elsewhere Rayji de Guia
- Time Skip Alyza Taguilaso
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
Issue 15
2022
Fiction
- Beautiful Oaths Shanna Germain
- This Residue Light Ewen Ma
- Sunday in the Park With Hank Leah Bobet
Poetry
- Still-life with Shrubs Nnadi Samuel
- Deranged Sestina//or To outdress a Coffin & name it Self-harm Nnadi Samuel
- The Economics of Death Nnadi Samuel
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
Issue 14
2022
Fiction
- The Girl Who Haunted Death Nikita Deshpande
- Give This Letter to the Crows Iona Datt Sharma
Poetry
- The Poet Addresses Gun Michael J. Henry
- On Sailing Homewards Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan
- Memento mori Ana Reisens
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
Issue 13
2022
Fiction
- In Water We Survive Ai Jiang
- To Build Eternity, With Bones Gunnar De Winter
- The Projectionists E.M. Linden
Poetry
- The Alchemists, the Squirrels Robert Beveridge
- The Train Ivana Svobodová
- Grieving rehearsal Akash Ali
- I think of my grandfather Jonathan Duckworth
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- The Custom of the Sea Katie Gill
Issue 12
2022
Fiction
- The Morthouse Maria Haskins
- This is I KT Bryski
Poetry
- Owl’s Head, 1980s M. Regan
- A Man is Two Gravestones Blessing Omeiza Ojo
- After the Fire Ada Navarro Ulriksen
- Shipwrecked Gretchen Tessmer
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- Bruyn’s Housefly Neal Auch
Issue 11
2022
Fiction
- Adventure Richard Butner
- Their Blood Smells of Love and Terror Josh Rountree
- Thirteen Goes to the Festival L Chan
Poetry
- My Great-Grandmother’s House Madalena Daleziou
- Roommate Cislyn Smith
- how to make time M. Darusha Wehm
- The Raving One Jenn Grunigen
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- A Life Among the Tombstones M. Van Ell
Issue 10
2022
Fiction
- Animal Sacrifice Mar Stratford
- My Cloak of Keys Fran Wilde
Poetry
- Bronx Tiger Tests Positive for COVID-19 James Edward O’Brien
- The Latest Metamorphosis Rebecca Bratten Weiss
- Clunk Shaoni C. White
- Water Snousha Glaude
Nonfiction
- Temples, Tombs, and Piranesi’s Ghosts Louise Hodgson
Issue 9
2022
Fiction
- Pale Horsepower Cara Masten DiGirolamo
- The Long Way Up Alix E. Harrow
- Bayú Michael Baez Arroyo
Poetry
- “Death Will You Play With Me?”
- The bone moon above Kōdaiji: A Quartet Ryu Ando
- The Astronomer Lily Grodzins
- Grievances of a Young Midwife Lacey Yong
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- The Mummies of Beechey Island Katie Gill
Issue 8
2021
Fiction
- Roots of Lamentation Marissa Lingen
- L’hiver est assis sur un banc Margaret Dunlap
Poetry
- Like a Surgeon, With Her Teeth Erik Amundsen
- Did God shrink from Adam so, when the dust settled? Kristin Fullerton
- Caught by her Red-Stained Hands Claire Smith
- On the Möbius Carlos Hernandez
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- The City of the Dead Wendy N. Wagner
Issue 7
2021
Fiction
- I Had Never Been a Candle Freydís Moon
- In the Window Patrick Lofgren
- From the Ashes Flew the Ladybug Alexandra Seidel
Poetry
- Moonwalk on A Night Sky Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan
- The Sausage Makers Amelia Gorman
- Dead Man’s Session John Paul Davies
- The Plutocracy Maya Chhabra
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer: A Brief Anabasis Amanda Downum
- Nearly New Rockports Anita Brienza
Issue 6
2021
Fiction
- Invisible Motels Katherine Packert Burke
- All the Open Highways Alexis Gunderson
Poetry
- Seven Things You Have Helped Me to Remember A.L. Blacklyn
- The Sole-Stitcher C. S. E. Cooney
- Rows of Houses Leah Bobet
- Séance Rispetto Juleigh Howard-Hobson
Nonfiction
- Ask A Necromander Amanda Downum
- The Morbid Life: An Interview with Loren Rhoads
- Cemetery Postcards Loren Rhoads
Issue 5
2021
Fiction
- What Remains to Wake Jordan Taylor
- The Kingdom of the Butterflies Isabel Cañas
- They Call It Hipster Heaven Lauren Ring
Poetry
- What it is to be a dybbuk who has travelled from Somerville to Brighton E. Lev Arbeter
- Inanna 1 Bethany Fine
- Chang and Eng
- Two Reports From a Falling City Ewen Ma
Nonfiction
- Ask A Necromancer Amanda Downum
- The Cost of Grief Francesca Tacchi
Issue 4
2021
Fiction
- Sometimes You Get the Bear Tim Pratt
- Immolatus Lyndsie Manusos
- The Shadowed Undertows Natalia Theodoridou
Poetry
- Untitled Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
- Ghost Towns: A Cultural Resources Survey Report from the 2020-21 Field Season Sara E. Palmer
- This Candid Field Mat Joiner
- All the Trees That Have Perished Alongside My Childhood Bogi Takács
Nonfiction
- Ask a Necromancer Amanda Downum
- Danse Macabre: Equality in Death in Medieval Istrian Frescoes Jelena Dunato
Issue 3
2021
Fiction
- The General’s Turn Premee Mohamed
- To the (mostly) living J.D. Harlock
Poetry
- Undoing Zin E. Rocklyn
- the ending Gwynne Garfinkle
- Chernobyl Litany Gemma Files
- Cause and Manner Jeannelle Ferreira
Nonfiction
- Ask A Necromancer Amanda Downum
- October’s Ghost Caitlyn Paxson
Issue 2
2021
Fiction
- Bonefields Margaret Ronald
- Shuck G.V. Anderson
Poetry
- Oppenheimer in Valhalla Marissa Lingen
- Unselving Greer Gilman
- Astynome, After Mike Allen
- The House of Ill Waters R.B. Lemberg
Nonfiction
- The Thing That Doesn’t Disintegrate Kate Lechler
- Ask a Necromancer: Decay Always Wins Amanda Downum
Issue 1
2021
Fiction
- Fear Death by Water Arkady Martine
- Peristalsis Vajra Chandrasekera
Poetry
- Psychopomp MJ Cunniff
- Death Opus Romie Stott
- Paalai Anju Shweta Narayan
- Later the Loch, Sooner the Lack: The Lifecycle of a Horrid Man with Horrid Plans S.J. Bagley
Nonfiction
- You Always Were a Morbid Child Amanda Downum
- The Beginning E. Catherine Tobler
- The End Sean Markey
- Death and Wednesday Suzan Palumbo