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front cover of Plott Hound Issue 1 with a black wolf holding a snake in its jaws
Want to paw through some foxy nonfiction? Well we've got you covered. Check out "Foxes are Totally Trustworthy (Until They Aren't)" by Yoon Ha Lee
We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/foxes-are-to...
👀January 2026 Fiction👀
ICYMI, "A Tree is not a Home" is a short story by @dianadima.com about seeking refuge wherever you might find it. Read it for the quiet grief and pain embodied by its birch tree narrator.
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"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 !❤️🔥
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Need some more poetry in your life? Give "Cold Blood" by Krity Ettel a read.
We love it, and we hope you will, too!
"Come and Play" by Deborah L. Davitt, in December's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/davittPlay.html
They weren't supposed to be nightmare-fuel
-from "Come and Play" by Deborah L. Davitt, in December's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#poem #poet #poetry #horror
Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations.
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
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An excerpt of the short story "A Tree is not a Home" by Diana Dima, in Issue 21 of Haven Spec Magazine (January 2026). The text reads: A tree is not a home. But you, twelve years old and bony, dragging a suitcase behind a gray mother into the gray building where you were now going to live, looked back at me as though it was all wrong. As though the building should have been me. You came out soon afterwards, walked across the parking lot and over the low wire fence into my patch of land. (I saw you, in a manner of speaking, like an arrow rushing at me in the dark.) I could tell that you had never seen a birch before. You pressed your cheek... The background is the issue's cover art, titled Pile, by Aimee Cozza. It shows a figure with blood around their mouth and on their neck and chest, cuddling a pack of wolves.
👀January 2026 Fiction👀
"A Tree is not a Home" is a short story by @dianadima.com about seeking refuge wherever you might find it. Read it for the quiet grief and pain embodied by its birch tree narrator.
Subscribers can read it now!
I have recently had cause to reconsider which of my actions in the last few months have been sinful and which righteous, and I implore your patience as I explain and your guidance as to what I must atone for in this tangled web.
Oh, the strange and alchemical horrors that await you in @rkduncan.bsky.social's new story "Bearing the Good Fruit"!
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Sophonts, rejoice! We have a fresh original for you today: "The Smell of the Planet I Was Born On" by @culagovski.net. What did the planet you were born on smell like? As for me, it was mostly cigarette smoke.
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Superstring by AJ Dalton Trollbreath Magazine Background is a splash of red, yellow, and magenta light with white outline hexagons
Free Fiction Friday Poetry! @ajdalton1.bsky.social
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Aurora, Apricot by Devan Barlow Trollbreath Magazine Background is a stormy sky
Free Fiction Friday Poetry!
@devanbarlow.bsky.social
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Is it better to remember or forget? How do you ever know? That’s the question posed by “The Memory Swap” by Cressida Roe, one of our final January stories
#writingcommunity #fantasy #amreading
@eggandcressida.bsky.social
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"The Worst Is Not Darkness" by Emmie Christie, in Penumbric's December issue at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/christieDarkness.html
“... the worst is not darkness, it’s the fading light.”
-from "The Worst Is Not Darkness" by Emmie Christie (@emmiechristie33.bsky.social), in #Penumbric's December issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#horror #fantasy #shortstory
An excerpt of the short story "Branches" by Matt Tighe, in Issue 21 of Haven Spec Magazine (January 2026). The text reads: You smile when you see her across the street again. She laughs when you ask her the way to the station. It is right there behind her, South Entrance in huge letters, people bustling in and out of the oversized doorway. She asks where you are from—don’t they have trains there—and you smile and shrug. A version of you exists in almost every branch of reality, but part of you, the part that hurts, that knows how she holds your heart, has only just... The background is the issue's cover art, titled Pile, by Aimee Cozza. It shows a figure with blood around their mouth and on their neck and chest, cuddling a pack of wolves.
👀January 2026 Fiction👀
"Branches" is a short story by @mktighewrites.bsky.social about how sometimes every path you take can lead to loss. Read this one for its bittersweet multiverse and the impossibility of letting go.
Subscribers can read it now!
“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...
Left cover of The Haunting of William Thorn by Ben Alderson featuring four cameo portraits of young men framed by thorned vines with a manor house and the top. Right REVIEWS Quote At the time when we are undergoing the daily grind of following our own slow slide towards authoritarianism, there’s something deeply soothing about Alderson’s softened history and matter-of-fact liberal outlook. reviewer: Hana Carolina 26 January 2026 Strange Horizons
The Haunting of William Thorn by Ben Alderson
reviewed by Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social
Link ⬇️
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#bookreviews #horror #specfic
“Magie Vol, Ogies Toe” by @clhellisen.bsky.social (Winter ‘26) “is another loss story, in which the lead and their sister must find a way to satisfy the ravenous ghost of their mother.”
27.01.2026 14:10 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
In BCS #449: "Strike First And Then Give Tongue" Lalini Shanela Ranaraja "So if I were to arrive at the camp, introduce myself as your lover and insist on taking tea with the officers, that would be acceptable? If you wanted to take me home to London—" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/stri...
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The Sunday Morning Transport departs for a cruise today with a story by Marie Brennan (@swantower.bsky.social) that wonders what happens when the tame becomes very, very wild. Free for everyone to read (as the last of our January stories.)
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#PC927: The One Who Carries Abinakhee Has Died by Jay Kang Romanus, read by John Chu. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG. Content note for drowning I’m leaning in to kiss a stranger when the shooting star passes overhead. The sounds of people celebrating nearby swim through the humid air like the ancient turtle below us swims through the world’s ocean and the shooting star above swims through waves of night sky. I’m still breathing heavy from my performance, glowing from the warmth of so many eyes on me and the warmth of the stranger’s body next to me. “Did you see it?” I ask, momentarily distracted from his well-shaped lips. He nods. “My mother used to say they were the starships of those who left us behind.” He smiles at me with those extremely well-shaped lips. “I don’t think she was right about that, though.”
#PC927: The One Who Carries Abinakhee Has Died by Jay Kang Romanus, read by John Chu. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG. Content note for drowning
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"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
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"awoken!
by the opening blow
of a shut thing—
the latch!
of a short-sighted dog"
oh, beloveds
WHAT a poem!
bark! by Charlotte Suttee
read on 🖤
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An excerpt of the short story "A Beginner’s Guide to Summoning Demons" by Cynthia Zhang, in Issue 21 of Haven Spec Magazine (January 2026). The text reads: 1. Buy two cartons of salt: one for the actual summoning, the other for practice. Don’t worry about iodized versus sea salt, fleur de sel or pink Himalayan—as long as it’s not low-sodium, any brand will do. 2. Candles, too—your mom has some around the house, but she will notice if you take them all. Even if she doesn’t, you doubt the scent of Ocean Rain and Vanilla Sugar will impress any demons you want to bind. Votive candles are best, though tealights will do in a pinch, a pack of twenty for one ninety-nine... The background is the issue's cover art, titled Pile, by Aimee Cozza. It shows a figure with blood around their mouth and on their neck and chest, cuddling a pack of wolves.
👀January 2026 Fiction👀
"A Beginner’s Guide to Summoning Demons" is a short story by @czwrites.bsky.social about growing up a target but finding ways to fight back. Also, summoning demons. Read it as a ritual of transformation.
Subscribers get it Monday!
Get your fancy clothes on and head out to "Another Cemetery Wedding" - and don't forget to bring a gift for the ghoul and goblin! This poem by Belicia Rhea in our 7th issue is a delight:
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Ahoy, sophonts! Do you like detectives? What about Mars? What about detectives *on* Mars? If you like the sound of that, then check out the sound or text of "Graduated Justice: An Amelia Li Mystery" by @mynachang.bsky.social!
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POETRY by Akua Lezli Hope Priestess IV Quote What Oracle she may be comes from knowing where the grain was cast, the roof raised, the Harvest threshed, the rent party held 19 January 2026 Strange Horizons
Priestess IV
by Akua Lezli Hope
"What Oracle she may be comes from knowing
where the grain was cast, the roof raised,
the Harvest threshed, the rent party held"
Link ⬇️
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Welcome to episode 730. We have two tales for you this week, about a boy desperate to protect his newfound friendship, and a harrowing trip down a forbidden road (by @blackcattales.bsky.social).
talestoterrify.com/episodes/730-emma-johnson-rivard-chris-l-robinson
Artwork by Daphne Fauber, "Creation", featuring a blue-eyed alligator with a human hand emerging from its throat to touch another extended human finger in a reference to "The Creation of Adam", with sparrows on the wing and a radial pattern in the background
New from Reckoning X: @daphne-fauber.bsky.social's alligator-eating-Adam artwork "Creation" will appear as full-color endpapers in the print edition (which is up for preorder), but you get to see it now: reckoning.press/endpaper-cre...
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