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Death In Culture
Bog Bodies: The Naturally Preserved Mummies of Europe
The term “bog bodies” sounds like something out of a science-fiction novel where peat submerged bodies emerge from the earth […]
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Everyone Keeps Saying Probably
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
Cast your mind backward, dear reader, to the spring of 2021. We were still learning the ways of a pandemic […]
Fantasy Magazine Announcement
Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine!! I wanted to write a whole fancy thing about this, but I’m just too excited, […]
The Space Between: Review of It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken
Winner of the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, Anne de Marcken’s It Lasts Forever and Then It’s […]
Coins for the Ferryman: Fundraiser For 2025
‘Tis the season, the spooky season, but then it’s always the spooky season at Psychopomp and The Deadlands, because people […]
We Who Will Not Die
Publisher’s note: this is our last novelette of 2024. You can read this for free on our site (via this […]
Novelette Announcement, Late 2024 – 2025
Our mission at Psychopomp is to bring you the best fiction about death, multiverses, and more. In pursuit of that […]
Preview of From These Dark Abodes
by Lyndsie Manusos Please enjoy this first chapter from our newly released novella From These Dark Abodes, available in print and ebook […]
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.
Get yours!
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

