Holly Lyn Walrath's Blog: Stories

EventsJoin us December 1st, 2025 for a Reading and Discussion with Translator J. Weintraub FREE ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH! REGISTER HERE!

Join us for a free online book launch celebration with translator J. Weintraub, who will read from Nicola Lombardi’s new horror novella CLUB MAGRITTE.

Event Details:
DATE: December 1, 2025
TIME: 6:00pm CST
LOCATION: Online via Zoom (Registration Required)

Club Magritte
by Nicola Lombardi
Translated by J. Weintraub

Debts must be paid, in one way or another . . . Mauro should ne...

FilmIzabel Pakzad’s First Feature Makes US Premiere at Fantastic FestImages Courtesy Izabel Pakzad

Content Warnings: Discussions of Assault and Violence Against Women

I went into the Fantastic Fest screening of FIND YOUR FRIENDS (dir. Izabel Pakzad, 2025) with absolutely no previous knowledge about the film other than the scant info in the film guide, and I walked out feeling absolutely electrified. It is the first movie I’ve seen in a while where the audience was literally cheering for characters...

AnnouncementsAn Italian Horror Novella Translated by J. Weintraub

Interstellar Flight Press is delighted to announce the publication of our first-ever translated work, Club Magritte by Italian author Nicola Lombardi, translated by J. Weintraub.

Debts must be paid, in one way or another . . . Mauro should never have played poker with the Duke, and he should not have lost. And now, even though he hasn’t the money to pay, he has to honor his debt or face terrible consequences. Fortunately, there’s Cl...

FilmMoral Bankruptcy in HorrorImages courtesy Warner Bros.

Weapons (Warner Bros., 2025), by director Zach Cregger, is a slick feature focused on the horror of lost children, starring Julia Garner as a wayward teacher and Josh Brolin as a devoted dad. It’s been fairly popular and a big hit in the horror scene, but I left the film feeling a bit dazed by its choice of victims.

In the last few years in horror, there’s been an important conversation surrounding the history of horror and its more proble...

BooksReading from the 2025 SFPA Elgin Award Nominees

This is my seventh year reviewing books from the SFPA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association) Elgin Award for best speculative poetry book. A full list of nominated books is available on the SFPA website. This year’s award chair is Juleigh Howard-Hobson, who I would like to thank for diligently tracking nominations. Here are my previous reviews:

The Best Speculative Poetry is IntersectionalThe Best Speculative Poetry of the Year is Expl...

AnnouncementsJoin us 11/3/25 for a Zoom Reading by Vanessa Fogg, Online Via Zoom

FREE ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH: Join us for a reading with Vanessa Fogg on November 3, 2025

The House of Illusionists
​by Vanessa Fogg

A short story collection reflecting the light and dark in human emotion and fantasy.

A sea-witch calls to souls from the deep. In modern suburbia, a middle-aged woman fights to keep her daughter from the clutches of a Faerie Queen. . . and finds herself confronting her own past and deepest desir...

AnnouncementsIntroducing LISTEN — A POETIC CREATURE by Griffin RockwellA Book-Length Cento Puts a New Twist on Frankenstein and All Things Monstrous

All this happened,
more or less
Now, listen to me
- / — / — / — / — / -
I have, doubtless,
excited your curiosity
Shall I make my report?

Interstellar Flight Press is delighted to announce our newest poetry book by Griffin Rockwell!

listen — a poetic creature is a book-length cento that stretches the boundaries of speculative poetry. Griffin Rockwell asks th...

Join Interstellar Flight Press at WorldCon in Seattle for an All-Human Reading at Seattle Beer Co! Join us for an IFP Offsite Worldcon Reading!

Date: Thursday, August 14th, 2025
Time: 7:00pm PST — 9:00pm PST
Location: Seattle Beer Co. 1427 Western Ave

Free to attend, 21+, RSVP Here

Featured ReadersAndrea Blythe

Andrea Blythe is an author, poet, and game writer. Necessary Poisons is her fourth collection of poetry. Her previous chapbooks include Twelve: Poems Inspired by the Brothers Grimm Tale (Interst...

AnnouncementsA Stunning Debut Short Story Collection Weaving Fantasy with Heartbreak

“The House of Illusionists is a treasure box for anyone who loves exquisitely crafted speculative fiction. Every story spins its own kind of quiet, lustrous magic, and in every story, in every character, Fogg finds a twist, a turn, a chink, a crack, a different point of view. One of the things I love most about Fogg’s stories is that she has a singular ability to portray love in all its messy, complex, everyday g...

NewsletterThe Latest Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Reviews and Essays

Dearest space worms,

We apologize for a bit of delay in correspondence lately, our editor has been hard at work on a certain project (herding poets like kittens to get a Poetry Hugo Award). We have some exciting things in the works, including a Worldcon offsite reading at a local brewery in Seattle, plus two new 2025 titles.

See you in the void!

Holly Lyn Walrath
Managing Editor

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