The Deadlands

a journal of ends and beginnings

Hugo & Locus Award–nominated quarterly speculative fiction magazine

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Cover: Do Forests Dream of Plasmodial Creep · Dory Whynot

The current issue

Issue 42

Spring 2026

“Something rests upon the hill—something we shall call a dog, but it is not a dog. They told you your mother waits in the white city for you.”— “The Dog,” Phoenix Mendoza

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The Deadlands is honored to be nominated:

Hugo AwardNebula AwardLocus AwardShirley Jackson AwardWorld Fantasy AwardIgnyte AwardSturgeon AwardRhysling Award

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The Deadlands is a quarterly magazine of stories, poems, and essays about the other realms — of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere. Death is a journey we all will take. We’d like to peek at the map before we go.

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