hey, it's STILL fantasy friday! and though we're on hiatus, there's so much to read! check out issue 99, featuring work by @alexjennings.bsky.social, @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social and many more 💖): psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu... OR try something from our backlog 🦄 psychopomp.com/fantasy/back...

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"The latter half of the roll was tainted by light. From red glares, to pallid frames of exposure, like blood pouring into the whiteness of hell." NEW FICTION, beloveds!! On the Anthology Entitled “Frames of Colour and Un-Colour” by @prairieandzoyd.bsky.social 💀🖤 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Locus Awards voting is OPEN! Anyone can vote, and you can write in any eligible titles, editors, publishers, artists, magazines, and more! Even the Hugos usually see only two or three thousand votes, far fewer in some categories - your votes matter!🗳️ poll.voting.locusmag.com

"Krishnan captures the trio’s love, lust, loyalty, joy, and sorrows in a way that feels devastatingly real." (on "Ichthyosis") Maria Haskins aka @mariahaskins.com has fantastic things to say about Issue 99 in the February Locus Magazine aka @locusmag.bsky.social !❤️‍🔥 psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

we are SO THRILLED to see several of our novellas and a collection on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list we want you to read those books! (and vote for them, YES, if you love them) so we put them on SALE OMR - $2.99 Starstruck - $1.99 NTHTDD - $1.99 you can get them here:

we are SO THRILLED to see several of our novellas and a collection on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list we want you to read those books! (and vote for them, YES, if you love them) so we put them on SALE OMR - $2.99 Starstruck - $1.99 NTHTDD - $1.99 you can get them here:

GUESS WHAT we are OPEN for 2025 AFTERLIVES: The Year's Best Death Stories subs!! BUT (and this is SUPER IMPORTANT) we are asking EDITORS to send us work this time so WRITERS, be in touch with your editors and READ ON for more info: psychopomp.com/afterlives-2...

a marketplace for souls trading in paper money for an item from their loved ones. something small something unnoticed. today, beloveds!! new POETRY: in which Orpheus is a Hmong daughter by Phoua Lee psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

would you look at that!! we have a couple stories on the Locus recommended reading list and they are absolute bangers!! “Highway 1, Past Hope“ by @mariahaskins.com “his love’s ashes on his tongue“ by @montelin.bsky.social locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

so excited to see these on the Locus recommended reading list!! One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com Starstruck by @aimeeogdenwrites.com No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social “Garden of the Bloodpotter“ by @babblewocky.bsky.social locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Also I didn't look at this on my telefone while I was in bed but I am up and making breakfast now so: eyyyyy thank you @locusmag.bsky.social for including ONE MESSAGE REMAINS in best collection on the recommended reading list! :) locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

“Today we are taking my daughter apart.” TODAY beloveds The Self-Made Women’s Circle by @marisca.bsky.social read this gorgeous story here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

in case you missed it! check out this fantastic flash story by @amfisher.bsky.social 💀🖤

We published three fantastic issues in 2025!🧜🏽 (The December issue pub date was Dec 1, even if things went "free online" later) Reading for the Nebs, Hugos, SFPAs, Locus, and more? Give them a look!❤️‍🔥 psychopomp.com/fantasy/

UPDATE: The Buildings Are Hungry and the Plague Can Speak Fiction by Natalia Theodoridou in @psychopomp.com Novelette. There's a slippage here, that I saw in Theodoridou's "Every Ghost Story" as well. A heady mix of the unsettling and banal. psychopomp.com/update-the-b...

"I’d dropped hundreds, maybe thousands, of coins into the skull of Francisco Xalbec, and I still wasn’t sure how full it was, but I knew with profound certainty that I had to fill it." TODAY beloveds!! new fiction 🖤💀 The Skull of Francisco Xalbec by Alan M. Fisher psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

in case you missed it 🥀 the FIRST poem of issue 41 is live and yours to read 🖤

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Hunkeler's Secret by Schneider Hansjörg, trans Freuler Astrid (@bitterlemonpress.bsky.social) & One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com (@psychopomp.com). See alt-text! #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #booktok #booklovers

HOLD THE PHONE our very own EXTRAORDINARY copy editor @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social's Breathing Night (@spacecowboy17.bsky.social books) is on the BFSA longlist!!!! SKELETON SO PROUD!!! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

and it’s the spectacular @premeemohamed.com’s One Message Remains!!!! one the BFSA longlist! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

so very excited to see @klschroeder.bsky.social’s Garden exquisite novella No One to Hold the Distant Dead on the BSFA longlist 🖤 www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Thank you @psychopomp.com so much for all you did to distill my little wartime romance necro-horror into a book!

we are just delighted to see @babblewocky.bsky.social’s Garden of the Bloodpotter on the BSFA longlist!! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

super excited to see They Return by @ecastroianni.bsky.social on the BSFA longlist! 💖 www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

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go and read it if you want to FEEL THINGS (and even if you don't, go and read it)

Today I want to promote M. L. Krishnan's story "Ichthyosis" over at @fantasymagazine.bsky.social (hosted by @psychopomp.com ). This is an amazing story of love & self-acceptance, w/a rich intensity I adore. psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

This is the second (of two!) issue of the Deadlands for which I was guest editor for fiction! Stories by Alan Fisher, Marischa Pichette, Dmitri Akers, Jeremy Morris, Joe Koch, Aliya Whiteley, and Sadoeuphemist, and with another lovely, stark cover from @carlydraws.bsky.social

the deadlands ISSUE 41 with fiction guest edited (again!!) by @vajra.me, and the same amazing amazing amazing amazing poetry and non fiction you have always loved IT IS RELEASED UPON THE WORLD check the ToC + the link to grab your own by supporting us as a Patron is here:

Wheeeee! Thank you @foxesandroses.bsky.social for the shout out of my debut novelette! And I’m so glad you are feeling better. “Garden of the Bloodpotter” is available to read at @psychopomp.com , which is itself a veritable garden of strange novellas and short fiction.

SO EXCITE to see @babblewocky.bsky.social WONDERFUL novelette Garden of the Bloodpotter on this stellar @foxesandroses.bsky.social list!! 🖤💀🙌

And hey, check out this full list of @psychopomp.com eligible wonders!! so much good stuff psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...

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did you miss Table of Contents O' Tuesday? 🌮?? who doesn't love TOC'Os 😂 🫶💀

I loved this book by @klschroeder.bsky.social - snap it up, creatures!

2025 was a nightmare... & an amazing year for short fiction. On my newsletter, I rounded up the stories I think you need - for your soul, & your award ballots (mine are there, but it's mostly from others) I'll shout them out here, as well! undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-life-in-f...

"Ichthyosis," by M.L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social / Psychopomp. Proof that if you're a phenomenally skilled writer, you can give me intense vivid emotion so compelling I won't mind if it's missing some of the things we're taught are "essential" to storytelling. psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

"Nacre," by E. Catherine Tobler @ecatherine.com in Three-Lobed Burning Eye. Ouch. Wow. This one hurt. It hurt so fucking good. Just as its protagonist undergoes an unimaginable transformation; the story transmutes incredible pain into astonishing beauty. www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe...

"Corporate Policy," by Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social, in Psychopomp. A fabulous short story told in corporate memos and group chats!! And it's funny! And it's fucked up. What a wonderful year for Psychopomp!! @psychopomp.com psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

AND THE COVER Silver Island by @carlydraws.bsky.social

it's HERE our issue 41 table of contents!! TOC'o tuesday is the best, we know 🌮 🖤 so let's start with POETRY thread/

do you need an amazing read?? “Beautiful and heartbreaking. It’s sadly rare to find an author like Schroeder who approaches the non-human with such compassion and respect. A must read.” No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social get it here! psychopomp.com/product/no-o...

🖤🖤🖤 amazing story by @lmanusos.bsky.social wonderful write-up by @chloroformtea.bsky.social

We published three issues in 2025, with stunning (all original) flash fiction, short fiction, and poetry!🧚🏽 PLUS several interviews and a book review! THANK YOU everyone for reading, and a big THANK YOU to everyone who helped make Fantasy Magazine happen!❤️‍🔥 psychopomp.com/fantasy/

a little reminder that though we are on hiatus there's a whole BACKLOG of amazing Fantasy to read enjoy 💖 psychopomp.com/fantasy/back...

we are so proud of all we did in 2025! and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀 give this post a look!! find something amazing to read and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤 psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...

we are so proud of all we did in 2025! and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀 give this post a look!! find something amazing to read and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤 psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...

*sips morning bone juice* *glances at calendar* wait, it's JANUARY?! we've got new deadlands in january!! COMING SOON issue 41 we can't wait for you to read this one!!! 🫶💀

find all of @datlow.bsky.social's picks here: Part1 ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f... Part 2 ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f...