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Chaos Trifecta #7: Life Built Upon Death
When I think about lives that are built upon death, I think about grave workers and grave diggers, funeral home staff, those working in crematories, forensic scientists and detectives, and more morbidly, murderers. In fiction, the meaning of “life built upon death” becomes further complicated when explored through…
The House Reincarnate
When we’re inside our home, the walls create extensions of our bodily boundaries and demarcate where the self ends and where intrusion can begin.…
A Cozy Grove Full of Death
In times like these, it’s nice to escape. It’s even nicer when you don’t have to pay a billionaire $8 to hitch a ride…
Announcing A New Yearly Anthology. Afterlives: The Year’s Best Death Fiction
Psychopomp publisher Sean Markey is excited to announce a new yearly anthology that will collect the best death-focused fiction published each year. Afterlives: The…
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No one is truly ready for death, and no one knows how they might act when faced with it—numb? Overly emotional? Relieved? It has…
Novella Announcement: From These Dark Abodes
Book Riot senior contributor, Pushcart nominee, bookseller, and reviewer Lyndsie Manusos’s From These Dark Abodes, a gothic fantasy novella where immortals unzip from their…
Home Sweet Haunted Home
Horror might not be the first genre people think of when they’re looking for comfort. By its very nature, it’s meant to evoke unease…
Novella Announcement: One Message Remains, By Premee Mohamed
Nebula, Aurora, and World Fantasy award-winning author Premee Mohamed’s One Message Remains, a novella about one man’s mission to recover the remains and souls…
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
