Raised in her family’s dollhouse museum, Birdie grew up surrounded by models of perfect daughters that she could never be, haunted by a father who refused to accept her and a mother who wouldn’t protect her. Birdie fled and didn’t look back.

A home, a girlfriend, a job—a summons to the House she left behind.

After ten years, Birdie returns to her mother’s welcoming arms, but something has changed in the centuries-old family home. Strange dogs hide in the foundations, her bedroom door locks on its own, her father won’t leave the basement—and something new and terrible lurks behind her mother’s eyes. She knows that she should leave, but eyes far older than the dolls’ have been watching her.

The House allowed Birdie to escape once. It refuses to let her shame the family again.

Content Warnings: Abuse, animal death, blood and gore, homophobia, violence

What’s more, the technology that brought Inga to this distant colony—beaming her consciousness out of her original body and into a synthetic one—has misfired. There are haunting gaps in her memory, pieces of herself lost to the void. As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.

Praise for No One To Hold the Distant Dead

Lush, lyrical, and heartbreaking, No One to Hold the Distant Dead is fascinating science fiction as well as a moving elegy mourning lost selves, lost loves, and lost species. This story of a cosmic traveler grappling furiously with pain and sorrow offers us a grim sort of hope in the midst of despair.

— Ivy Grimes, author of Glass Stories

A lovely and melancholy exploration of loss, grief, and care for the dead. K.L. Schroeder has created something truly unique in this novella, confronting not just individual death, but looking a society mourning the immanent death of an entire planet.

— A.C. Wise, author of Ballad of the Bone Road

No One To Hold the Distant Dead is a searing, intensely evocative novella. KL Schroeder paints a gentle, otherworldly apocalypse, both ecological and personal, which by turns delights with its stunning prose and devastates with its incisive detail. This is a timely and fascinating novella that is richly populated with fascinating characters surviving in an all-too-real future. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

— David W. Goodman, author

Schroeder weaves together a visceral and timely tale of environmental collapse that pulls no punches about what’s coming. Heartfelt and infuriating at times, No One To Hold the Distant Dead leaves us with a realistic, but hopeful version of the future, one hovering somewhere between victory and defeat.

— A.D. Sui, author of The Dragonfly Gambit

No One To Hold the Distant Dead is a brutally beautiful story, deftly navigating ecological grief, the loss of self, and finding hope in the strangest forms. The dying world of Nordenmark will haunt me. It is as if Schroeder wrote this specifically to break my heart.

— Lorraine Wilson, author of We Are All Ghosts In The Forest

In No One to Hold the Distant Dead, Schroeder explores the intersections of nature and technology in a world facing ecological collapse, with thought-provoking beauty, intriguing concepts, and smooth and engaging prose. A taut, intelligent, moving, and compelling tale, this is eco and science fiction at its best.”

— Lyndsey Croal, author of Dark Crescent and Limelight and Other Stories

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.

— Ever Dundas, author of Goblin and HellSans

No One to Hold the Distant Dead offers a heartfelt meditation on grief and a reminder of the value of interspecies connections.

— Sarena Ulibarri, author of Steel Tree

Full title: No One To Hold the Distant Dead
Author name: K.L. Schroeder
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Format: print / ebook
Pub date: Nov 11, 2025
Page count: 108
ISBN: 979-8-89116-020-0 (print)
Genre: Science Fiction
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Summer 1981: Brady’s grandmother vanishes—along with an entire West Texas town. There’s no explanation, except those that don’t hold any logic. Brady doesn’t worry too much about that, having spent his childhood listening to his grandmother’s stories and playing with the pencil-sketched ghosts in her old Victorian: the young Shirley, the injured cowboy Glen, and others.

People slipping away into another world is fantasy. It’s impossible.

Summer 2025: Brady returns to his grandmother’s house, hoping to understand what happened, and to find out exactly where his grandmother went. Brady holds a hope close to his heart: That he can duplicate whatever magic his grandmother conjured, to follow in her footsteps as his own ghost-tattered life comes to its close.

I was there. I know what I saw…

Praise for Summer In The House of the Departed

“Summer in the House of the Departed is a golden-edged tale of the bond between a boy, his eccentric grandmother, and her ghost-filled old home. Rountree gives us the type of story we’ve come to expect from him: rich, poignant, and delightfully bittersweet. I loved it.”

— Chris Panatier, author of The Redemption of Morgan Bright

Summer in the House of the Departed is a luminous journey into the delicate boundary between life and death. With prose that sings and a narrative that lingers like a half-remembered dream, Josh Rountree crafts a world where the supernatural is not merely a backdrop but a living, breathing presence. A meditation on memory, loss, and a yearning for connection, Rountree invites readers to walk alongside ghosts who are as vivid and complex as the living.

—Christopher Barzak, author of the Shirley Jackson Award nominated A Voice Calling

“Reading Summer in the House of the Departed feels like standing outside in the hot August rain and then going inside with a chill in your bones. The characters here (the living and the dead) feel so vividly alive, especially the Southern ghost-hunting grandma and her bookish-and-brave grandson. A wise and compelling story of the literary Weird.”

— Ivy Grimes, author of Glass Stories

“I never pass up an opportunity to read Josh Rountree, who does western melancholic horror better than anyone I can think of. Summer in the House of the Departed is a gentle West Texas ghost story as much about the wonder of childhood as it is about all of its inalterable, traumatic disruptions. A unique novella with late-in-life characters embracing paranormal mysteries and reflecting on the otherwordly legacies we leave in our wake. For stories that are contemplative, but told with an eye toward the strange and the different, Rountree is the guy you want.”

— Thomas Ha, author of Uncertain Sons and Other Stories

“Two bleakly beautiful views of the approach to death, in a past and a present that feel incredibly well-worn and lived-in. A comfortable place to leave a little piece of your soul in between the pages.”

— Aimee Ogden, author of Starstruck

“The quiet horror of loss, caught in a beautifully written summer of ghosts.”

— Hailey Piper

“A beautiful reflection on life, death, and happenings beyond our understanding, Summer in the House of the Departed immediately settles you into Brady’s home among the ghosts and bittersweet memories. In a world of sorrow and pain, this story reminds us that there is still light that can cut through the darkness, urging us to savor the sincere friendships and love we stumble upon, whether from this world or beyond the veil.”

— Emma E. Murray, author of Crushing Snails

“When you’re a kid, life can feel like a fever dream of beautiful and terrible moments made of gossamer. Summer in the House of the Departed perfectly captures this feeling, following a boy and his grandmother on a spiritual and literal journey toward death and the afterlife. Filled with love, loss, and hope, this book will haunt you long after summer is gone.”

— Angela Sylvaine, Bram Stoker nominated author of The Dead Spot.

Full title: Summer In the House of the Departed
Author name: Josh Rountree
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Publisher/Imprint: Psychopomp
Format: print / ebook
Pub date: Aug 26, 2025
Page count: 110
ISBN: 979-8-89116-013-2 (print)
Genre: Fantasy
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Read the entire first chapter here!

Praise for Starstruck

“What can a radish teach us about humanity? More than you’d think. Filled with beautiful prose, vibrant characters, and heart-stirring reflections on the sacrifice of self for love, this is a book that will give you ALL THE FEELS. I got withdrawal symptoms every time I put it down.”

— Robyn Bennis, author of the Signal Airship series

“Oh what a song for living this book is. Brimming with warmth, STARSTRUCK is a story about lost souls coming together, loving each other despite their circumstances, suspicions, and newness. Ogden is masterful in creating a group of characters–a radish, a fox, a heap of rocks, and a lost boy– that you would go to the ends of the universe for. It’s a breathtakingly human story, and every emotion is raw and to the fore. If you’re searching for a book that hits those Studio Ghibli vibes just right, this should be your next read.”
— Lyndsie Manusos, author of From These Dark Abodes

”Starstruck, at its heart, is novella about working every day to choose kindness and hope. It’s exactly the sort of book the world needs right now!”
— A.C. Wise, author of Out of the Drowning Deep

“Starstruck is filled with whimsy and tenderness, and populated by odd and endearing characters with whom we become fast friends. But it’s also filled with heavy truths about growing older, painful family secrets, and the perils of a changing world. I could feel the cracks forming in my heart with every page turn. What a strange and lovely book.”
— Josh Rountree, author of The Legend of Charlie Fish

“Aimee Ogden has done it again! Deliciously strange and heartbreakingly sweet, Starstruck will have you rooting for a lovable cast of characters the likes of which you’ve never seen before. Ogden’s work is always full of surprising delights, and this is no exception.”
— Samantha Mills, award-winning author of The Wings Upon Her Back

Full title: Starstruck
Author name: Aimee Ogden
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Publisher/Imprint: Psychopomp
Format: print / ebook
Pub date: June 17, 2025
Page count: 94
ISBN: 979-8-89116-012-5 (print)
Genre: Fantasy
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Pageantry, pomp, pretense, and peril—”The General’s Turn,” originally published in The Deadlands, drew readers into the dark world of a ceremony where Death herself might choose to join the audience… or step onto the stage.

Award-winning author Premee Mohamed presents three brand new stories set in this morally ambiguous world of war and magic. In “One Message Remains,” Major Lyell Tzajos leads his team on a charity mission through the post-armistice world of East Seudast, exhuming the bones and souls of dead foes for repatriation. But the buried fighters may have one more fight left in them—and they have chosen their weapons well.

In “The Weight of What is Hollow,” Taya is the latest apprentice of a long-honored tradition: building the bone-gallows for prisoners of war. But her very first commission will pit her skills against both her family and her oppressor.

Finally, in “Forsaking All Others,” ex-soldier Rostyn must travel the little-known ways by night to avoid his pursuers, for desertion is punishable by death. As he flees to the hoped-for sanctuary of his grandmother’s village, he is joined by a fellow deserter—and, it seems, the truth of a myth older than the land itself.

Praise for One Message Remains

Nebula award winner Mohamed delivers more science-infused, dystopian speculative fiction in this hard-hitting collection of four interlinked stories.

— Publishers Weekly

An established master of short fiction, Mohamed brings her typical clarity and assurance to a new–but desperately familiar–world haunted by violence, empire, ghosts, and devils. These are simply some of the most human and humane stories I’ve ever read.

— Alix E. Harrow, Hugo-Award Winner and New York Times Bestselling author

Premee Mohamed is one of speculative fiction’s greatest authors, and this collection provided further proof.

— Chuck Wendig

Premee Mohamed is one of Canada’s most exciting thinkers and writers of speculative fiction. Her stories bravely go where few dare to, each employing a deftness of language and surety of form that offers a fresh experience each time. One Message Remains and the stories within are no exception, each tale different from the other, yet all very much quintessential Premee stories. Readers of her works, long and short both, will find much to love here.

— Suyi Davies Okungbowa, author of Son of the Storm and Lost Ark Dreaming

Premee Mohamed sends her readers once more unto the breach with her stunning stories and I for one am sure to follow wherever she leads the charge. The battlefield has never been more breathtaking, where the horrors of war go beyond the borders of our own world, explored with such probing, insightful prose.

— Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

Nobody writes like Premee Mohamed, with justice on one shoulder and compassion on the other, and a pen that dances over the page. In One Message Remains, she draws different voices and perspectives to the fore like a conductor of a small and beautifully crafted symphony, in a minor key.

— Kate Heartfield, Aurora Award winner and author of The Tapestry of Time

Mohamed has given us an incisive collection that unflinchingly dissects the brutal clockwork mechanism behind colonialism and the very real, flesh and blood people who are caught within its cogs. Beautifully penned, insightful and honest in it’s portrayal of resistance, this is exactly the brave kind of anticolonial work we need now more than ever.

— Suzan Palumbo author of Countess and Skin Thief Stories

Gallows creak, the perished whisper, and death herself watches from the audience. On stages, on the run, and in graves, people try to find ways of resisting the oppression that has controlled them for so long. A beautiful collection of stories with prose that sings until your very bones resonate with their melody.

— Steve Toase, author of Dirt Upon My Skin and To Drown in Dark Water

Premee Mohamed’s One Message Remains is a dark crystal. With prose that shimmers like gemstones, Mohamed presents us with several tales, each richly captivating, each lined with shadows, exquisite world building, and a touch of ever growing sadness, and of course death. This is Mohamed at their absolute best.

— Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Vanishing Daughters

A Voice Calling

Lovely Creatures

From These Dark Abodes

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On the front of the coin you’ll find a lantern (the very one on the front of a certain boat that crosses a certain river? We’ll never say… but yes, that lantern) held by a skeleton hand, three stars from The Deadlands, and a banner that says “admit one.”

On the reverse you’ll see The Deadlands tree with two moon icons and the words “MEMENTO MORI” up top, and “The Deadlands 2025” at the bottom.

Here’s a mockup (subject to change) of how it’ll look as a coin:

Amazing.

Here are the print books included in this bundle:

A Voice Calling, by Christopher Barzak

Lovely Creatures, by KT Bryski

From These Dark Abodes, by Lyndsie Manusos

Reviews For A Voice Calling

Christopher Barzak is a master of subtle hauntings. I’m not sure how he managed to make this story both charming and very creepy, but I can still feel the chill up my spine.

Theodora Goss, author of The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter

Nobody writes ghost stories like Christopher Barzak. A Voice Calling is a chilling portrait of a demanding house, its loving inhabitants, and a town that takes a deep and not altogether friendly interest in everything that happens there. It’s a remarkable story—melancholy, terrifying, and beautifully written. I loved it.

Delia Sherman, author of The Freedom Maze.

Gorgeously wrought, and profoundly moving, horror

Maria Haskins, author of Girls & Wolves & Other Dark Gems

Lethe has no memory of how she came to be trapped in this nightmare, only that despite the tenderness she feels for Petunia, she must escape. Together, they traverse the infinite house, searching for passage while finding evidence of their former lives—lives that are not what they believed them to be.

Lethe must decide: join the immortals in their revelry or escape St. Edah’s once and for all.

Praise for From These Dark Abodes

Manusos’s poetic and emotional writing brings poignancy to this story of people who have lost everything, including the knowledge of what they lost. The result is twisty, complex, and rewarding speculative fiction.

Publishers Weekly Review

FROM THESE DARK ABODES is an intricately crafted labyrinth with hidden spaces in between that weaves together decadent body horror, complex relationships—intimate like hugging bones, exposed like peeled back skin—told through prose with an intoxicating atmospheric pull, crawling with sensory details.

Ai Jiang, Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker Award nominated author of LINGHUN and I AM AI

FROM THESE DARK ABODES clawed my heart open and brought the sinew and sharp needle to sew it closed again. From Lethe’s fathomless longing to Petunia’s claustrophobic, crushed-down postpartum existence, this novella felt terribly human–filled with all the ways we hurt and help each other.

Aimee Ogden, author of Nebula Award Finalist SUN-DAUGHTERS, SEA-DAUGHTERS

Both mysterious and intimate, From These Dark Abodes will enthrall you and make you fall in love with all the charming imperfections of humanity.

Eugenia Triantafyllou, author of Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge

From These Dark Abodes is a wonderfully dark page-turner overflowing with fairytale-like dread. Much like the revelers of St. Edah’s who strip themselves of flesh to unsheathe their gilded bones, this novella continually changes shape until it reveals its vulnerable center in its final pages. A tender triumph about grief, memory, and elusive self-acceptance, as well as a masterful myth-mystery you’ll want to reread once you reach the end.

Thomas Ha, Nebula, Locus, and Shirley Jackson-Nominated Author

“Dreamy and evocative, From These Dark Abodes is a novella suffused with longing that explores the meaning of life through the specter of death.”

A.C. Wise, author of The Ghost Sequences

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.

Praise for Lovely Creatures

If a traveling circus had a fairytale soul, it would be this troupe of misfits. If a gothic house had a car, it would be this wooden whale. KT Byriski’s Lovely Creatures is an astounding journey of finding family, escaping poisonous relationships, and telling tales the entire way. Pay your penny and step through the curtain. You won’t regret it.

Nebula-winning, Hugo and World Fantasy finalist author Fran Wilde (Updraft, The Book of Gems)

Lovely Creatures is gritty, surreal, and a spectacularly whimsical novella that interweaves fairytales, deliciously twisted, yet recognizable, in a warped wonderland, unravelling how all the stories and characters are all interconnected by the thread of death.

Ai Jiang, Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker Award nominated author of LINGHUN and I AM AI

With the sure hand of a master of archetype and image, KT Bryski deftly pulls back the curtain to show us a world we’ve always suspected was there. This is where our bedtime stories go when the lights go off. It’ll take your breath, but don’t worry; you’ll get it back by the end.

Kate Heartfield, Aurora winning author of The Embroidered Book and The Valkyrie

A gorgeously wrought, dark, and unsettling twist on fairy tales where the Devil stalks a storm-whittled landscape, and where Bryony searches for her long-lost sister. It’s written as a weave of tales, and Bryski’s prose has a magic all its own. A woman finds her sister sleeping in a glass coffin. There’s a wolf and swan-maiden, and a man who holds everyone in thrall with his stories. Bryski delves deep in heartache and guilt, love and friendship, and the landscape of the story is tightly intertwined with the people traveling through it. Beautiful, strange, and profoundly moving.

Maria Haskins, Author of Wolves and Girls

Lovely Creatures is a gorgeous tale of family lost and found told in a voice filled with ache and courage. It is a story about the stories we are told, the fairy tales we believe and the legends we don’t. Through dust storms to the darkness of grief at the edge of the world, by way of a wooden whale, Bryony Rush charmed the Devil. KT’s writing will win over your goth hearts just as it has conquered mine.

Suzan Palumbo, Author of Skin Thief: Stories and Countess

Lovely Creatures is a dark and twisted fairy tale that lets us step through the looking glass of grief into the sunless parts of ourselves where everything is a story. Bryski has written a path into the woods, and the smart reader will hold the author’s hand.

Meg Elison, Hugo, Locus, and Philip K. Dick award winning author