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19 free-to-read stories from The Deadlands

There's a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead

Sarah Pinsker The Deadlands 2023 ShortStory Horror 5,500 words

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SlipstreamMentorshipAmerican South

Content warnings 2

death-of-a-loved-oneillness-and-pandemic

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Notes From a Pyre

Amal Singh The Deadlands 2023 ShortStory Horror 4,300 words

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First ContactFaithSouth Asia

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deathdeath-of-a-loved-one

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Highway 1, Past Hope

Maria Haskins The Deadlands 2025 ShortStory Horror 3,400 words

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Folk HorrorAbusePacific Northwest

Content warnings 3

abusesexual-violenceviolence

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Rachel Is at a Protest

Esther Alter The Deadlands 2024 ShortStory Horror 4,500 words

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Magical RealismTrans IdentityAmbiguous Ending

Content warnings 3

abusegenocideviolence

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doorbell dot mov

Jennifer R. Donohue The Deadlands 2024 ShortStory Horror 1,500 words

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Psychological HorrorMortalityAmbiguous Ending

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All the Things I Know About Ghosts, By Ofelia, Age 10

Isabel Cañas The Deadlands 2023 ShortStory Horror 2,900 words

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Magical RealismFaithLyrical

Content warnings 2

child-deathdeath-of-a-loved-one

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The Long Way Up

Alix E. Harrow The Deadlands 2022 ShortStory Horror 4,773 words

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Mythic FictionMortalityElegiac

Content warnings 3

deathmental-illnesssuicide

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In the Forest of Talking Animals

Makena Onjerika The Deadlands 2023 ShortStory Horror 4,200 words

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Mythic FictionFamilyEast Africa

Content warnings 2

deathviolence

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The Empty Ones

Vivian Shaw The Deadlands 2024 ShortStory Horror 4,700 words

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Folk HorrorMentorshipSecond Person

Content warnings 1

death

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The Rerebirth of Slick

Stephen Kearse The Deadlands 2024 ShortStory Horror 3,500 words

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AfrofuturismRacismMidwest USA

Content warnings 1

racism

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The Projectionists

E.M. Linden The Deadlands 2022 ShortStory 3,587 words

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DystopiaWarBleak

Content warnings 3

deathdeath-of-a-loved-onewar

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Phoenix Alexander The Deadlands 2022 ShortStory Science Fiction 851 words

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BiopunkMortalityWhimsical

Content warnings 3

deathdeath-of-a-loved-oneillness-and-pandemic

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Three Things That Happen the Night My Dad Dies

Isabel Cañas The Deadlands 2024 ShortStory Horror 800 words

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Mythic FictionFaithWhimsical

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A Dervish Among the Graves of Ghazni

Tanvir Ahmed The Deadlands 2022 ShortStory 4,190 words

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Mythic FictionWarSouth Asia

Content warnings 3

deathdeath-of-a-loved-oneviolence

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Sunday in the Park with Hank

Leah Bobet The Deadlands 2022 ShortStory 2,018 words

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Historical FantasyWarNew York City

Content warnings 2

deathwar

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Thirteen Goes to the Festival

L. Chan The Deadlands 2022 ShortStory 3,888 words

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Mythic FictionRedemptionSoutheast Asia

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They Call It Hipster Heaven

Lauren Ring The Deadlands 2021 ShortStory 1,294 words

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Psychological HorrorMortalitySecond Person

Content warnings 3

deathdeath-of-a-loved-onegore

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his love's ashes on his tongue

Monte Lin The Deadlands 2025 ShortStory Horror 3,942 words

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Literary SFMortalityDeep Space

Content warnings 1

substance-use

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Give This Letter to the Crows

Iona Datt Sharma The Deadlands 2022 ShortStory 2,466 words

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Folk HorrorColonialismEpistolary Adjacent

Content warnings 3

death-of-a-loved-oneillness-and-pandemicself-harm

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