Hello
Sean, here, publisher of PSYCHOPOMP, a death-focused small press.
A BELOVED death-focused small press publishing amazing novelettes and novellas.
Speaking of novellas, we received SO MANY good ones last novella open season that we bought several. Whoops we bought two years worth of novellas.
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So I thought I’d make one big post to introduce the novella, the author, and a quick synopsis so you can GET SERIOUSLY HYPE.
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Scion, by Thomas Ha
A young man searches for his ailing father in the heart of a house where the halls move without warning, deranged relatives stake out miniature fiefdoms, and fearful servants flee a murderous stranger. Every room of the family home holds a particular history, which together tell the twisted tale of a crumbling lunar settlement that has only grown stranger since its fall.
Thomas Ha is a Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated writer of speculative short fiction. You can find his work in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Weird Horror Magazine, among other publications. His work has also appeared in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror and is forthcoming in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. Thomas grew up in Honolulu and, after a decade plus of living in the northeast, now resides in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.
Starstruck, by Aimee Ogden
Prish has always been a radish who knows what she’s about; chiefly, her wife, Alsing, a literal and figurative fox. They’ve woven together a cozy life organized around welcoming other starstruck beings into the world—plants and animals ensouled by a falling star—but when the stars stop falling, all of that unravels. Prish gives in to Alsing’s longing to move on, and their new path leads them to two unlikely companions: an abandoned human child, and, impossibly, a brand-new starstruck who is neither a plant nor an animal, but rather a chunk of anthropomorphized granite with delusions of destiny.
Aimee Ogden is an American werewolf in the Netherlands. Her debut novella, “Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters” was a Nebula Award finalist, and her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. She has never met a watermelon radish she didn’t like (although the watermelon radishes might not have been wild about her).
Summer in the House of the Departed, by Josh Rountree
A boy and his dying grandmother spend the summer of 1982 in a haunted house, communing with ghosts and searching for occult answers to the afterlife. Years later, the boy is facing his own mortality, and revisiting that old house may be the only way to solve the mysteries that have haunted him for a lifetime.
Josh Rountree is a novelist and short story writer who works across multiple genres, focusing mostly on horror and dark fantasy. His novel The Legend of Charlie Fish was released by Tachyon Publications in 2023 to wide acclaim, making the Locus Recommended Reading List, and being named one of Los Angeles Public Library’s best books of the year. More than seventy of his short stories have been published in a variety of venues, including The Deadlands, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Bourbon Penn, Realms of Fantasy, PseudoPod, Weird Horror, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. Several collections of his short fiction have been published, including Fantastic Americana, and most recently, Death Aesthetic, featuring tales of death and transformation. Rountree lives in Austin, TX with his lovely wife of many years, and a pair of half-feral dogs who demand his obedience.
House, Body, Bird, by Bernie Jean Schiebeling
Birdie grew up in a dollhouse museum, surrounded by models of “perfect” daughters that she could never be. When she says goodbye to her girlfriend and returns to help with renovations, she expects the dolls will be the only ones watching her—but the House let Birdie go once, and it refuses to allow her to shame the family again.
Bernie Jean Schiebeling (she/they) is a queer author living in the Midwest who writes about uncanny experiences, family histories, and brief moments of comfort. Their work has appeared in The Deadlands, The Future Fire, and Reckoning, and she is also the script editor for the indie science fiction podcast Gastronaut. When the mood strikes, she makes plush frogs. They can be found on BlueSky at @bernie-jsyk, on Instagram at @bernie_jsyk, and on their website at berniejeanschiebeling.com.
No One to Hold the Distant Dead, by K.L. Schroder
Dr. Inga Nyström leaves her body behind on Earth and travels to the tiny planet of
Nordenmark to help a community in crisis. But when she arrives, she finds a world in
advanced ecological collapse, beyond all hope, and that she has also lost something in
transit—something that’s kept her alive. While Inga struggles to find answers about the
missing pieces of her new life, something uneasy stalks her from the empty spaces they’ve left.
K.L. Schroeder is a microbiologist, aging goth, and speculative fiction writer who was forged in the cold dark winters of Canada and Sweden. Their short fiction can be found in the Northern Nights anthology (Undertow) and the And Lately, the Sun climate fiction anthology (Calyx). They can be found on Bluesky as @klschroeder.
The Three Apocalypses of Kabir Vasudeva, by Amal Singh
Kabir Vasudeva, necromancer, saint, prophet, god, dies leaving a world shattered by a war his devotees have raged in his name. Surmai, Kabir’s staunchest follower, believes he can still be resurrected. For wasn’t he supposed to be immortal? Wasn’t he supposed to save the world? But all Kabir has left in his wake are lies. When another god claims to know Kabir’s darkest secrets, Surmai’s beliefs are put to test. What does a believer do when they know the true face of their god?
Amal Singh is a Sturgeon Award nominated author of science fiction and fantasy from India. His short fiction has appeared in numerous prestigious venues online. His debut novel The Garden of Delights is published by Flame Tree Press. By day, he juggles screenwriting, audio-writing, editing, and creative production. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking and running. He is represented by Kanishka Gupta of Writer’s Side Literary Agency.
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