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Lanternfish Press

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Purveyors of the rare and strange. Independent publishing in Philadelphia. Genre boundaries are so 20th century.

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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
We're absolutely THRILLED to announce that THE GLASS GARDEN by Jessica Lévai is a nominee for the 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards in the Novella category! The Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented on July 11th during a ceremony at Readercon.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Lanternfish Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of Santiago Sánchez-Cordero’s debut novella, Nightjar, for publication in November 2026. Read more: lanternfishpress.com/news/2026/5/...
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Acquisition: Debut novella by Santiago Sánchez-Cordero — Lanternfish Press
Lanternfish Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of Santiago Sánchez-Cordero’s debut horror novella, Nightjar, for publication in November 2026.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
She truly is! We're so excited to publish these in the coming years!
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We certainly thought so! (We can't wait to show you what they'll look like!)
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We have some big news: Lanternfish Press will reissue the first 2 volumes of Greer Gilman's landmark Cloudish trilogy and publish the first edition of the concluding novel LIGHTWARDS, starting in Spring-Summer 2027. Read more: lanternfishpress.com/news/gilman-...
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Lanternfish Press acquires 2 reissues, 1 original work in Greer Gilman's Cloudish trilogy — Lanternfish Press
Lanternfish Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of Greer Gilman’s Cloudish Triptych, which will include the reissue of Moonwise and Cloud & Ashes and the original publication of the n...
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We have a special Halloween announcement: Lanternfish Press is thrilled to announce the acquisition of the first short story collection by M.M. Olivas, Sangronas And Other Things With Teeth, for publication in Spring-Summer 2027. Learn more: lanternfishpress.com/news/2025/10...
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Acquisition: Short story collection by Ignyte finalist M.M. Olivas — Lanternfish Press
Lanternfish Press is thrilled to announce the acquisition of the first short story collection by M.M. Olivas, Sangronas And Other Things With Teeth , for publication in Spring-Summer 2027.
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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 30/06/2025
THE GLASS GARDEN by Jessica Lévai (Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social). Reviewed by @emhall47.bsky.social‬. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
In AN ARCHIVE OF BRIGHTNESS, Kelsey Socha “has woven together a lawless assortment of experiences, telling a story of queerness, mundanity, and a murder (of crows).” Fiction from @lfpbooks.bsky.social‬ & our #PrideMonth reading list: lanternfishpress.com/shop/an-arch...
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An Archive of Brightness — Lanternfish Press
A flock of crows build an "archive of brightness" by observing and collecting moments of tenderness in a series of queer human relationships.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
It's fantastic, we promise 🖤
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
You also might know us from POUR ONE FOR THE DEVIL, a Southern Gothic novella about a college professor who accepts a speaking engagement that proves too good to be true...
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Pour One for the Devil by Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. — Lanternfish Press
A college professor accepts an offer to speak in a remote coastal mansion that proves too good to be true.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Another one of our most well-known horror titles is SUNDOWN IN SAN OJUELA by @olivasthewriter.bsky.social (who you probably saw in full swing at StokerCon if you were there).
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Sundown in San Ojuela by M.M. Olivas — Lanternfish Press
When the death of her aunt brings Liz back to San Ojuela, the site of a harrowing childhood accident that left her clairvoyant, she discovers a desolate landscape where monsters and ancient gods stalk...
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
THE GLASS GARDEN is the second novella by @authorlevai.bsky.social and is perfect for readers who like the work of S.A. Barnes, Lina Rather, or Jeff VanderMeer.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Our most recent horror release is a sci-fi horror (weird horror, if you prefer) following an archaeologist and her scavenger sister as they try to uncover the origins of a strange extraplanetary finding.
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The Glass Garden by Jessica Lévai — Lanternfish Press
An earth archaeologist and her salvage crew captain sister visit a planet with cave art that might be an artifact of a forgotten civilization. As the crew explores the luminescent cave, they begin to ...
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Hello to our new friends from StokerCon this past weekend! If you're just joining us this week, we'd like to tell you a bit about some of our horror titles. (And if you're not just joining us this week, we'd like to tell you about these books, too.)
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
WE DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, WISH TO RECEIVE MANUSCRIPTS "CREATED" OR "WRITTEN" WITH GENERATIVE AI. AI-generated work is entirely antithetical to our company and individual values. We don't want to see your AI-generated work. Don't send it to us. There's no exception to this rule. Don't ask.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
❓ What are we not looking for? ❌ No young adult fiction or books for children of any age level. We publish for adult audiences. ❌ We don't accept unsolicited submissions of poetry or short story collections. ❌ We don't publish erotica.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
❓ What are we looking for during our open submissions period? Lanternfish Press readers love gothic fiction of every type. Cross-genre and dark historical fiction are both high up on our list as well. We're very interested in intersectional memoir, but we're very selective in this category.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Our most recent title acquired from slush: 🏜️ Sundown in San Ojuela by M.M. Olivas Our next-up titles acquired from slush: 😾 The Barefoot Followers of Sweet Potato Grace by Megan Okonsky 🍂 A Harvest of Furies by Hayden Casey
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
While Lanternfish Press does accept agented work year-round (agents—you can get in touch with @editorfish.bsky.social directly at any time!), we've only published a few books sold to us by agents.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
❓ Do we actually acquire books from our open reading period? We sure do! The vast majority of our authors come to us through the open submissions period. In 2025, half our books came from slush and half from previously published authors. (Our authors have been BUSY.)
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
And, since we always get asked... ❌ No, we don't want to see fiction between 40k-60k ❌ No, we don't accept anything under 20k or over 90k Please don't contact us through social media or the contact form on our website to ask for an exception! We don't respond to inquiries of this kind.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
We're looking for the following formats: 📕 Novellas 20,000-40,000 words 📗 Novels 60,000-90,000 words 📘 Memoirs between 20,000-90,000 words For novels and novellas, we love to see the rare and strange, gothics of every region, and works that push the boundaries of genre.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
With the weekend upon us, it's a great time for us to mention that we're OPEN to unsolicited submissions for the month of June. If you're not familiar, we open to unagented manuscripts for one month each year. Our full call is here: lanternfishpress.com/submissions
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Thank you so much! We're very proud of our authors and their books that we publish 🖤🖤🖤
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We are indeed taking unsolicited manuscripts until June 30! We'll have a few FAQ/Q&A threads about our open reading period throughout the month on different social media platforms as well 🖤
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Charm City Spec Official @charmcityspec.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
One week until the hottest Charm City Spec of the year! Come out and join us!
Ivy Bookshop flier for the next Charm City Spec, June 7th 2025, 6:30 pm on the patio behind the Ivy, 5298 Falls Road in Baltimore. On the program to read: Sunny Moraine, Aysha U. Farah, M.'. Olivas, Dominique Dickey, and Venessa Vida Kelley!!
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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Hello folks! The anthology I edited for @lfpbooks.bsky.social is available for pre-order an anywhere books are sold! Beastly: An Anthology of Shapeshifting Fairy Tales was a pleasure to create, you can look forward to cheeky footnotes and great stories! gatheringvolumes.com/item/mjsesoI...
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Beastly by Jennifer Pullen | Gathering Volumes
An Anthology of Shapeshifting Fairy Tales
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Read Zachary C. Solomon’s A BRUTAL DESIGN (@lfpbooks.bsky.social) for your #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth: In this novel, architecture student Samuel Zelnik “receives an unexpected offer of freedom working in the experimental utopian city of Duma.” bookshop.org/a/500/978194...
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I had the good luck of reading this novel as @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social was writing it, and I can’t wait for you all to hold it in your hands. Get a pre-order in now. A gorgeous, ambitious book.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
COVER REVEAL:⁠ Hayden Casey's Midwest Gothic debut A HARVEST OF FURIES arrives October 14, 2025.⁠ Cover Design by Kimberly Glyder Art Direction by Christine Neulieb Learn more: lanternfishpress.com/news/2025/5/...
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Cover Reveal: A HARVEST OF FURIES by Hayden Casey — Lanternfish Press
The cover of A HARVEST OF FURIES was designed by Kimberly Glyder with art direction by Christine Neulieb.
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readingreality.bsky.social @readingreality.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
#BookReview: The Glass Garden by Jessica Levai @authorlevai.bsky.social @lfpbooks.bsky.social #horror #sciencefiction #sciencefictionhorror
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#BookReview: The Glass Garden by Jessica Levai
My Review: I’m not sure what I was expecting when I picked this book, but whatever it was it veered off the path I thought it was going to take almost instantly. Which is always a good thing! In the beginning the story sets up not just one but two potential sources of dramatic tension - one personal and one professional.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
If you're not familiar with the work of @authorlevai.bsky.social we highly recommend her debut novella, as well: lanternfishpress.com/shop/the-nig...
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The Night Library of Sternendach by Jessica Lévai — Lanternfish Press
A tale of forbidden romance between a vampire lord and a daughter of vampire hunters, set in 1960s Europe and told entirely in Pushkin sonnets.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Today's the day: THE GLASS GARDEN is available wherever you buy books. Find it at your favorite retailer: lanternfishpress.com/shop/glass-g...
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Happy book birthday to my second literary child, THE GLASS GARDEN! Published by @lfpbooks.bsky.social, awesome cover by @kglyder.bsky.social Learn all about it here: linktr.ee/TheGlassGarden
https://linktr.ee/TheGlassGarden
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
We love to hear it! SHIP OF FATES is a great intro to our books. And in my obviously very biased opinion, we publish particularly excellent novellas. (Plus we have a new one coming out next week: THE GLASS GARDEN by Jessica Lévai, whose first novella we also published back in 2021.)
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy #IndiePressDay to @lfpbooks.bsky.social , who produced these beautiful siblings and more.
The author's two books. THE NIGHT LIBRARY OF STERNENDACH, which has a black cover with red batwings and a book, and THE GLASS GARDEN, whose cover is a kaleidoscopic image in red and green.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Lanternfish Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of @amykdebellis.bsky.social's new novella, The Widening Gyre, for publication in Spring-Summer 2026. Learn more: lanternfishpress.com/news/2025/4/...
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Hello to our new followers! We're Lanternfish Press, purveyors of the rare & strange, and our next release will be Jessica Lévai's creeping sci-fi horror novella, THE GLASS GARDEN: lanternfishpress.com/shop/glass-g...
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The Glass Garden by Jessica Lévai — Lanternfish Press
by Jessica Lévai “A sensual, despairing, beautiful hallucination.” —Greg Rucka, writer of Lazarus Dr. Therese Blake is a homebody archaeologist devoted to the history of planet Earth. But whe...
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We're big fans of Creature Publishing & CLASH, ourselves!
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Billy Penn at WHYY @billy-penn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Billy Penn’s series of Q&As with Philly’s independent publishers continues. Our team speaks with Christine Neulieb of @lfpbooks.bsky.social, who calls her press "weird and quirky." billypenn.com/2025/04/15/i...
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'We're a little goth and a lot nerdy'
Billy Penn’s series of Q&As with Philly’s independent publishers continues. This time: Christine Neulieb of Lanternfish Press.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Readers who enjoyed THESE BONES by Kayla Chenault or THE SALT FIELDS by Stacy D. Flood will want to check out this compelling Southern Gothic novella. OLDER THAN GHOSTS is part of our Fall-Winter 2025 season, coming to retailers in March 2026.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We are INCREDIBLY excited to announce the acquisition of Brandon White's debut novella, OLDER THAN GHOSTS: lanternfishpress.com/news/2025/2/...
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Have you heard? The Barefoot Followers of Sweet Potato Grace will be an audiobook later this year, coming from Tantor Media. Learn more: lanternfishpress.com/news/2025/2/...
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Christine Neulieb @editorfish.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If it’s atmospheric fiction laced with artful elements of horror or decay, I’m interested. Read more at www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/ch... #MSWL @lfpbooks.bsky.social
image of lush plants behind a grimy and fogged up greenhouse window
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Speaking of March: We'll be back at #AWP25 in LA and we can't wait to see you! Fun fact: Both of the debut authors we'll be publishing in 2025 were people we met face to face at past AWP conferences.
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Christine Neulieb @editorfish.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I’d rather read mss that attempt difficult things and execute them pretty well than ones that attempt what’s easy and execute it flawlessly. Dream big #MSWL! Open for submissions in May, read more about what I'm interested in at www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/ch... @lfpbooks.bsky.social
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Christine Neulieb – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Next up: In March, we're publishing the next novel by the author of The Vampire Gideon’s Suicide Hotline and Halfway House for Orphaned Girls: My Therapist Says This Grief Journal Is a Good Idea by Andrew Katz will hit your favorite bookstores and online retailers on March 11.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Our most recent release was the incredible Southwest Gothic SUNDOWN IN SAN OJUELA, a debut novel by M.M. Olivas. Some very cool people had some wonderful things to say about it. And we'd also suggest it might be a timely read.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If you know us, it's probably because we published the absolute best edition of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's CARMILLA. (We are extremely humble about it.) Ours has an intro by the incredible Carmen Maria Machado and illustrations by Robert Kraiza. Also: THAT COVER.
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Lanternfish Press @lfpbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If you're just discovering us today (or can't remember why you've started following us in the first place), let's reintroduce ourselves. We're Lanternfish Press, publishers of the rare & strange, located in Philadelphia. You may have met our team at AWP, Brooklyn Book Fest, or other bookish events.
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