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      Death In Culture

      Mourning in the Animal Kingdom

      Mourning in the Animal Kingdom

      A.R. ArthurAug 13, 2024

      Five Mourning Behaviors & Rituals Chimpanzees Similar mourning behaviors to humans have been seen by primate researchers often unintentionally. Both […]

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      UPDATE: The Buildings Are Hungry and the Plague Can Speak

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      8 Books That Will Grab You By the Throat for Women in Horror Month

      8 Books That Will Grab You By the Throat for Women in Horror Month

      Maria HaskinsMar 13, 2025

      It’s March and Women in Horror Month so maybe you’re looking for horror fiction written by women. Maybe you want […]

      Death Is a Foreigner: Nosferatu (2024)

      Death Is a Foreigner: Nosferatu (2024)

      Meg ElisonFeb 14, 2025

      “I am an appetite, nothing more.” —Count Orlok Much ink (and other various fluid) has been spilled over the meaning […]

      2024 Award Eligibility

      2024 Award Eligibility

      It’s that time of year again—time to look back on all we published and wonder how we did it at […]

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      Announcing the Starstruck OST

      Sean MarkeyFeb 6, 2025

      When I started Psychopomp, I wanted to create something special. Not only an indie press, but something a little feral, […]

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      Everyone Keeps Saying Probably

      Premee MohamedFeb 3, 2025

      Short Story, 1700 words Publisher’s Note: Please enjoy this short story by Premee Mohamed, who, coincidentally(!!), has a book out […]

      Announcing: The Deadlands’ Guest Editor

      Announcing: The Deadlands’ Guest Editor

      Cast your mind backward, dear reader, to the spring of 2021. We were still learning the ways of a pandemic […]

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        2024 Novella Series


        Lovely Creatures,
        by K.T Bryski


        Lovely Creatures is a journey across a wasteland within the belly of a wooden whale toward a distant, mythical river, by Sunburst, Eugie, and Aurora award finalist KT Bryski.

        Doomsday Dot will wake the day the world ends.

        That’s what everyone says, yours truly included.

        Bryony’s been searching for her big sister for ten years and change, and the trail finally leads her to Mr. Once-Upon-a-Time’s traveling show. There’s a wolf who’ll serve you tea, a lady who’s sometimes a swan, and Bryony’s sister sound asleep in a glass casket. All of them, rolling through the wasteland in a giant wooden Whale.

        The Whale’s important, you’ll see.

        But Bryony’s not the only one on the hunt. Everyone on the Whale is running from something. And whether Bryony can wake her sister before they’re caught, well, only the Devil herself knows.

        The Devil’s important as well. You’ll see that, too.

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        A Voice Calling,
        by Christopher Barzak

        Christopher Barzak’s novella about a very bad house—a unique take on the haunted house genre, is available now.

        Gorgeously wrought, and profoundly moving, horror.”
        —Maria Haskins