“The Three Apocalypses of Kabir Vasudeva” coming soon…

*twirls* we are HUGO finalists!! so some real talk: we ADORE the gorgeous work that graces our pages it makes us weep, it makes our hearts soar, it makes us think and reconsider in startling ways VOTING is open and we would be so honored for your support 🖤 www.lacon.org/hugofinalists/

an old post BUT ALSO ETERNAL toss a little coin to your ferryman? 💀🖤

Congratulations to Uncanny Magazine Managing Editor Monte Lin! Monte's short story “his love’s ashes on his tongue” from The Deadlands is a Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist! You can read it here! ttps://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-37/his-loves-ashes/

CONGRATULATIONS @montelin.bsky.social!! we are so excited that "his love’s ashes on his tongue" from our issue 37 is a finalist for this year's Sturgeon award!! read the story here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is... and check out all the amazing finalists! file770.com/2026-theodor...

skeleton squeeeee!!! congratulations Ishita Basu Mali and @angelaliu.bsky.social for your Ignyte nominations!! read these gorgeous poems here: After The Storm: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is... The Language of Fireflies: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

CRYING AND THROWING UP I'm not even going to PRETEND to be cool about this, I'm an IGNYTE nominee???????

sliiiiides issue 42 your way psychopomp.com/deadlands/is... the days grow ever longer so take some time and read of the dead we'll be right there with you 🖤

After a grueling couple of months, some incredible news. I'm so thrilled and proud to share that "Ichthyosis," my super queer, Tamil, body horror-mermaid story from @fantasymagazine.bsky.social will be featured in We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025! Am I dreaming? 😱

we heard that HUGO VOTING is now open and hey, WE are up for Best Semiprozine!!!!! and and well, we would love your vote 🥹 🙏 🫶 www.lacon.org/hugos/

Featuring stories from Reactor, The Dark, @bafflingmag.bsky.social, @fusionfragment.bsky.social, @thedeadlands.com, @castofwonders.org, @3lobedmag.com, @flashpointsf.bsky.social, @diabolicalplots.com, and @kaleidotrope.bsky.social

if you've been thinking dang, i miss Psychopomp novelettes, they were *So Good* oh buddy, do we have some news for you! they're not gone, they've just been consumed whole by THE DEADLANDS NOVELETTES LIVE! CHECK OUT THIS ONE BY @dianadima.com IT'S LIVE GO READ IT then share then--oh no out of

The Shortlist, May 15: Twelve (!) stories selected by guest editor Adriana Kantcheva @catchingwords.com With: Spencer Ellsworth @spencimus.bsky.social and Kate Francia @katefrancia.bsky.social in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social Eliza Chan in Psychopomp @psychopomp.com (...1/3...)

issue 42 is fully out in the world and we know you need it because we do the gorgeous work getting us through helping us carry on yours to read 🖤 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

"We will count the cries and the last drops of water. We will count the stones thrown. We will add up what’s left of hospitals and schools" such a poem for you TODAY, beloveds 🖤 We’re Running out of Fingers for All This Counting by Kelsey Dean read it here 💀: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

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if you've been thinking dang, i miss Psychopomp novelettes, they were *So Good* oh buddy, do we have some news for you! they're not gone, they've just been consumed whole by THE DEADLANDS NOVELETTES LIVE! CHECK OUT THIS ONE BY @dianadima.com IT'S LIVE GO READ IT then share then--oh no out of

in case you missed it 🥀 our rollout of issue 42 continues!

“Thought things would be better here,” she says. I don’t respond to that. What could I say? We’re here because of her." today, beloveds!! a NEW STORY 💀 The City in White by @dianadima.com psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Get yer Shirley Jackson bundle! (Including my novella, A Voice Calling).

it's LIVE!! the Shirley Jackson Award novellas and novelettes bundle, curated by @genni.bsky.social and it includes A Voice Calling by @cbarzak.bsky.social 🖤 🎉 get your bundle here ⬇️ storybundle.com/award

"The first thing Zuo noticed was the smell. It was not the smell of rain, wet leaves, or red earth. It was sharp and chemical, like vinegar burned too long over fire." TODAY, beloveds! What the Trees Took Back by Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr. read it here 👃💀 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

skeleton flail!! @angelaliu.bsky.social's The Language of Fireflies from our issue 37 is a Rhysling Award Finalist!!! Congratulations Angela 🎉💀🫶 you can read the full poem here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

might we interest you in a book? The House allowed Birdie to escape once. It refuses to let her shame the family again. just when you thought only the dolls were watching… House, Body, Bird by @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social psychopomp.com/product/hous...

might we interest you in a book? The House allowed Birdie to escape once. It refuses to let her shame the family again. just when you thought only the dolls were watching… House, Body, Bird by @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social psychopomp.com/product/hous...

in case you missed it 🥀 read the latest story here ⬇️

"She had always run too hot, your mother. Her insides were a growling furnace that snapped away at her entrails; all too eager to set her ablaze from within, like an arsonist without an escape plan." TODAY, beloveds!! Lurid Parts by @aquaticteal.bsky.social psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

“Again, the book of peace is sealed. The first lock is a bird’s voice. There’s always a bird, but it’s been a year two. three. unending” today, beloveds 🖤 After Messiaen: A Quartet for the End of Time by @rblemberg.bsky.social read, oh read! psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

we LOVE our little death magazine we are so proud of all it brings join the deadlands patreon today www.patreon.com/the_deadlands and keep the skelly times rolling 🫶

in case you missed it 🥀 and trust us, you'll want to read this one 🖤

"It’s not really a dog; we just call it a dog for lack of other things to call it. We call it a dog the way Christians call church collapses and wars and children with cancer 'divine mysteries.'" today, beloveds! NEW FICTION 💀 The Dog by Phoenix Mendoza ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

today, beloveds! In This Corner Of the World by @aeweisgerber.bsky.social "The golden hour, raking light. A small local pub, Bar Tap, set in a copse of pine trees." in memory of both her brother and the filmmaker David Lynch 🖤 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

we LOVE THIS NOVELLA SO MUCH!! check out @klschroeder.bsky.social on My Favorite Bit with @maryrobinettekowal.com ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ 🖤

“What do we owe our ancestors, what do we owe our history, and what do we owe ourselves?” today on the blog!! River of Bones by @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social, reviewed by @shingai-be-like.bsky.social 🖤 psychopomp.com/river-of-bon...

Thrilled to see the amazing lit mag teams at @escapepod.org, @khoreo.bsky.social, @onspecmag.bsky.social, @strangehorizons.bsky.social, @thedeadlands.com and @uncannymagazine.bsky.social on the 2026 Hugo Award ballot! Congratulations to all the nominees!! 🎉🎉🎉 www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history...

to celebrate this fantastic nom, we’re putting the ebook on sale!! get yours now for a phenomenal price 🖤🖤🖤 psychopomp.com/product/one-...

pretty actually proud to be publishing a 2x hugo-award-nominated magazine (among many other awards-nominated) just in case you were wondering

to celebrate this fantastic nom, we’re putting the ebook on sale!! get yours now for a phenomenal price 🖤🖤🖤 psychopomp.com/product/one-...

NEW VIDEO ALERT ‼️ oh boy do we love a Bar Cart Bookshelf review! 🍸

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about HOUSE, BODY, BIRD by Bernie Jean Schiebeling. A haunted house novella in a dollhouse museum & a propulsive lesbian survival thriller, deliciously dreamlike & pounding with action. Weird, in the best way. Our drink is a Dollhouse.

Very pleased to be on the Aurora @csffa.bsky.social finalist ballot with three works -- ONE MESSAGE REMAINS for related work, HUNTED TO EXTINCTION in short story, and THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES for novella! Thank you to all the nominators and organizers! 😍 www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

CONGRATS PREMEE, CONGRATS ALL THE FINALIST CONGRATS WORLD, THAT THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD WORKS THAT EXIST speaking for ourselves, we are very pleased to see One Message Remains on this great list, in great company 💀🖤👀

"Someone once asked why My mother’s portrait guards the doorway. “Doesn’t it stop you from healing?” TODAY, beloveds! our first POEM of issue 42: No Mother to Replace by Nosawema O. read it here: ⬇️ 🖤 💀 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

spread the word THE DEADLANDS IS BACK clear your calendar and head to the graveyard (bring something for the crows) settle in to read 👇

spread the word THE DEADLANDS IS BACK clear your calendar and head to the graveyard (bring something for the crows) settle in to read 👇

issue 42 drops on SUNDAY!! want it hot off the presses? join our patreon today! 🙏🫶 www.patreon.com/the_deadlands

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Starstruck (by @aimeeogdenwrites.com) & From These Dark Abodes (by @lmanusos.bsky.social) - both @psychopomp.com. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

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guess what, beloveds? our resident necromancer (and licensed mortician) @stillsostrange.bsky.social is attending the American Board of Funeral Service Education conference WHICH MEANS you can ask the BOARD ITSELF a DEATH question! for an issue of the deadlands 🫶 psychopomp.com/aan/

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about FIRST MAGE ON THE MOON by Cameron Johnston. This fantasy adventure does exactly what it says on the tin: puts a wizard on the moon. The moon in the SKY. So much fun, so clever, so bouncy. IN THE SKY. Our drink is the Fire Dragon Fizz!