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  • No Mother to Replace, Nosawema (poetry)
  • In This Corner of the World, A.E. Weisgerber (fiction)
  • The Dog, Phoenix Mendoza (fiction)
  • After Messiaen: A Quartet for the End of Time, R.B. Lemberg (poetry)
  • Lurid Parts, Maya Ysabel Ng (fiction)
  • What the Trees Took Back, Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr. (fiction)
  • The City in White, Diana Dima (novelette)
  • We’re Running out of Numbers for all this Counting, Kelsey Dean (poetry)

Cover: Do Forests Dream of Plasmodial Creep by Dory Whynot

]]> Issue 40 – The Deadlands https://psychopomp.com/product/issue-40-the-deadlands/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:22:23 +0000 https://psychopomp.com/?post_type=product&p=5005802 There is no magic without the procedure. A golden faceplate aimed at a hole in the sky through which we are buried and baptized in a breath. Our skin bruised and stitched, our bones acquainted. Ghosts have always been there, we just haven’t noticed them, what with the turtles as green as heaven, and the roosters rousing us from dreams. There is no magic without the procedure.

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Fiction Guest Editor: Vajra Chandrasekera

  • The Last Minute Before the Rooster Crows, by Malena Salazar Maciá (fiction)
  • Amanita Season, Belle Biscotti (poetry)
  • Hamaka, Leave Me Alone, by Testimony Odey (fiction)
  • I had a dream and in the dream I knew I was dreaming so I believed I could change things, Shana Ross (poetry)
  • The Destruction of All That is Good and Holy, Otherwise Known as Green Beans, by Erin Ulm (fiction)
  • The Ritual, by Matthew Wollin (nonfic)
  • The Ghost of Cerrera Orbital Station Makes Herself Known, by Laila Amado (fiction)
  • The Pretendian, by Jason Pearce (fiction)
  • Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal, by R.B. Lemberg (poetry)
  • Punks Don’t Die, by Kat Sedia (fiction)
  • Not a Bird, Ellen Romano (poetry)
  • Liminalities of the Second Contraction, by Scott Payne (fiction)

 

Cover: Golden Maze by Carly A-F

]]> Issue 41 – The Deadlands https://psychopomp.com/product/issue-41/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:00:22 +0000 https://psychopomp.com/?post_type=product&p=5005797 We start this letter again. An empire of death. A bark in the night, after the sharp snap of something unknown. Would you look back?  There’s nothing out there, but what if there is? A child comes apart so easily. Would you look back? What if what you saw didn’t evaporate but became something else, something other. A corpse may be a shadow, may be a father. An empire of death. We start this letter again.

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Fiction Guest Editor: Vajra Chandrasekera

  • bark!, Charlotte Suttee (poetry)
  • The Skull of Francisco Xalbec, Alan M. Fisher (fiction)
  • The Self-Made Women’s Circle, Marisca Pichette (fiction)
  • in which Orpheus is a Hmong daughter, Phoua Lee (poetry)
  • On the Anthology Entitled “Frames of Colour and Un-Colour,” Dmitri Akers (fiction)
  • Bible Verses for the Dying and the Heathen, Robin Wheeler (nonfiction)
    Mushaboom, Jeremy Morris (fiction)
  • Babe, gray lindsey (poetry)
  • A Woman Is Screaming, Joe Koch (fiction)
  • Ask a Necromancer: C’est ici de l’empire de la Mort, Amanda Downum (nonfiction)
  • Sole, Aliya Whiteley (fiction)
  • You Build Your House on Your Father’s Corpse, Sadoeuphemist (fiction)
  • The Breeze & The Black Door, Mack W. Mani (poetry)

Cover: Silver Island, by Carly A-F

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Unlikely Friends on a Quest: A Conversation with Kemi Ashing-Giwa, by Arley Sorg (interview)
More Than A Blank Parenthesis Equals God’s Forgetfulness, by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan (poetry)
Collective Action: A Conversation with Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older, by Arley Sorg (interview)
The Matriarchs, by Malena Salazar Maciá (flash)
A Cup of Forgetting, by Eleanor Glewwe (short story)
Grove of Jealous Lovers, by Alex Jennings (poetry)
When You Hit The Poison Ivy Thicket, You’ve Gone Too Far, by Cory Farrenkopf (flash)
Marked for Destruction: A Conversation with Moniquill Blackgoose, by Arley Sorg (interview)
Ichthyosis, by M. L. Krishnan (short story)

Cover art: Asterisa, Weaver of Constellations, by Babs Webb

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All of Our Mothers are Dead, Eleanor Ball (poetry)

The Memory Breach, Christian Emecheta (flash)

The Dragon and the Bog, Sunwoo Jeong (fiction)

Fear is a Dagger, Mateo Perez Lara (poetry)

Knife Plus, Tracie McBride (flash)

They Return, Eleanna Castroianni (fiction)

Cover art: Wound, by Zi Xu

]]> Issue 39 – The Deadlands https://psychopomp.com/product/issue-39/ Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:57:06 +0000 https://psychopomp.com/?post_type=product&p=5004703 When Death comes, say hello. Welcome Death in. Set Death a place. Your body is not you, it is what holds you. You are star stuff, you are carbon and calcium and creation. You are water, wiles, and wishing. Say hello and blow a kazoo. Say hello and offer a drink. And if you must sleep forever, go knowing all those who have gone before you, and all those who will follow. You are not alone. We all do this in time.

Table Of Contents

  • The Clothier of the Sunless, Arda Mori (poetry)
  • For Those Who Stay Buried, Amanda Cecelia Lang (fiction)
  • Query Telling on Other Elder, Michael Hessel-Mial (poetry)
  • Everlasting, Daniel Oluremi (fiction)
  • Blind Date With a Corpse, RJ Aurand (nonfiction)
  • Deliquescence, Kelsea Yu (fiction)
  • Ask a Necromancer, Amanda Downum (nonfiction)
  • Plus One, Olufunmilayo Makinde (fiction)
  • Miles To Go Before I Sleep, Beth Goder (fiction)
  • Séance, Elizabeth Wing (poetry)
  • Little Trinkets, A. J. Sharpe (fiction)
  • quietude II, Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi (poetry)
  • One More Episode, Ashok Banker (fiction)
  • Cover art: Garden of Shadow by luseen
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Seascape w\Ṣàngó & Ọya’s Incarnations by Mu’izz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí

An Interview with Shingai Njeri Kagunda and Arley Sorg, Conducted by LP Kindred

Corporate Policy by Eden Royce

Interview With World Fantasy Finalists, Part One

That Time Uncle George Caused the Apocalypse by Vanessa Kyn

Strange and Weird: A Conversation with Rivers Solomon

How the road extracts an elegy by Aishat Yahkub

Left of Center: A Conversation with Amara Hoshijo

Silence Starved and Swallowed by Sydney Paige Guerrero

Unsheathing the Imagination: A Conversation with Eloghosa Osunde, by Shingai Njeri Kagunda

The Interrogation of So-ssang by Seoung Kim

To Love and Be Loved Loudly and Ungovernably, Knowing We Were Never Meant to Survive: Necessary Fiction Review, by Shingai Njeri Kagunda

Interview With World Fantasy Finalists, Part Two

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