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Death In Culture
Creatures Beyond Mythology
Greek mythological monsters, hybrids, and other fantastical entities have become a well-known group of creatures in the Western world. From […]
RECENT STORIES
Announcing Afterlives 2024
Afterlives 2023 was a lot of fun so we’re doing it again for 2024. Vajra Chandrasekera did an amazing job […]
Announcing the 2025/26 Novella Line Up from Psychopomp
Hello Sean, here, publisher of PSYCHOPOMP, a death-focused small press. A BELOVED death-focused small press publishing amazing novelettes and novellas. […]
7 Horror Titles Featuring Isolation
What’s even more frightening than facing a ghost, demon, haunted house, desolate space station, serial killer, or frozen tundra? Facing […]
She’s Lost Control (Again): The Sad/Bad Female Novel Protagonist
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Mourning in the Animal Kingdom
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August Horror Titles to Look Forward To
With August upon us, the summer is swiftly and (for many) sadly coming to an end. But with the dew […]
16 SFFH Books We’re Looking Forward to in August 2024
The Jaguar Mask, by Michael J. DeLuca DeLuca’s surreal fantasy novel is set in Guatemala, in a society marked by […]
Love Conquers Worldbuilding Flaws: All of Us Strangers Gets to Essential Human Truths
All of Us Strangers (now on Hulu), from director Andrew Haigh, sinks the viewer into an eerie, speculative world […]
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
