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Chaos Trifecta #3: Death Note
I’ve watched Death Note three times now, and I’m planning on a fourth, which I think is most fitting given […]
Novella Announcement: Lovely Creatures, By KT Bryski
Eugie Award and Aurora Award finalist, playwright, and Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 contributor KT Bryski’s Lovely Creatures, a […]
Novella Announcement: A Voice Calling, By Christopher Barzak
A Voice Calling is an obsessive tale of a family haunted by a very terrible house. Psychopomp is excited to […]
Eating Endings #2: The Honey Witch
Something I find funny—both in the sense of something humorous and something curious—is how consistently it seems that horror stories […]
It Can’t Rain All The Time: The Crow and Masculinity
Two movies released when I was eighteen years old. One was The Crow, and the other was Pulp Fiction. One […]
Chaos Trifecta #2: On Guilt—Bound Feet, Helpmeet, Alice in Borderland
Recently, I’ve been thinking about the ways guilt influences our actions, how it can drive us into irrationality, towards darkness, […]
Reimagining the Gothic
The past few years have seen a resurgence of the Gothic subgenre, but one that reimagines well-known themes, and moves the stories to fresh,…
Eating Endings #1: Bonesoup
I think a lot about how often stories represent food as an enticing imperilment. Consider the pomegranate seeds that require […]
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

