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The Horror Short Reads Bundle

AnnouncementsFeaturing Small Gods of Calamity by Sam Kyung Yoo

Interstellar Flight Press is participating in the February Horror Short Reads Bundle from StoryBundle! For $20, readers can get 22 horror novellas, including Small Gods of Calamity by Sam Kyung Yoo.

This bundle is curated by Mike Allen, who has this to say about the stories:

We live in a new golden age for horror fiction, spurred by surging readership and technological advances in publishing, and no form of narrative has benefited more ...

Introducing The Best of Interstellar Flight Magazine: Year Five

Announcements

Our Favorite Articles of 2023 in Print and EBook Format

​Step into the captivating realm of Interstellar Flight Magazine, your go-to online destination for all things speculative nonfiction. In essays, interviews, and reviews, talented contributors from across the globe explore the worlds of science fiction, fantasy, and horror through books, film, TV, comics, games, and art. In this selection of nonfiction from 2024, the anthology dives into topics such as Horror’s final girl, UFOs,...

Introducing Level Seven by William Ledbetter

AnnouncementsThe Thrilling Final Conclusion in the Killday Series by Nebula Award winning Author William Ledbetter

“…a propulsive techno-thriller that steps outside the well-established tropes of a scientist struggling to save the world from being taken over by AIs who see no further need for humanity.” — Mike Finn’s Fiction

​The thrilling final installment in the Killday Series by Nebula Award winning Author William Ledbetter

The brutal Kilburnites finally destroyed all Artificial Intelligences on...

​​Call for Submissions: Infinite Branches: Queer, Speculative Disability Poetry in Conversation

Interstellar Flight Press is seeking poets who are both queer/trans and disabled for a special collaborative series in 2025, to be published at Interstellar Flight Magazine. Our guest editor for this call is Toby MacNutt. This call is different than our past calls: Please read the guidelines carefully.

Guest Editor’s Biography
I’m queer, nonbinary (they/them) trans-masculine, chronically ill, autistic, and a speculative poet. I’m a white person living in rural Vermont (US), and also a textile arti...

The Ghost With the Most…D?

FilmBeetlejuice Is a Thirst Trap on TikTok, and I’m Here for It“He beetle on my juice till show time” — TikTok, I Shit You Not

In 1988, depressed that Warner Brothers wouldn’t greenlight his Batman project, Tim Burton began working on an even less likely-to-succeed film called Beetlejuice with Larry Wilson, who would go on to write Addams Family and this year’s anticipated hit, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024). Wilson went to a Cure concert and realized that teenage girls loved goth. “It felt to me...

Will & Harper Try to Change the World

Film, Fantastic FestA Documentary about Transness, Friendship, and the Changing Landscape of AmericaImages Courtesy Netflix

Content Warning: This review contains discussions of anti-trans legislation, misgendering, and anti-trans hate.

The new documentary Will & Harper is a touching exploration of the complexities of what happens in a friendship when one person transitions — and a heartbreaking showcase of how far America has to go when it comes to accepting trans people. Will Ferrell, the popular...

TRIZOMBIE: Down Syndrome in the Apocalypse

Film, Fantastic FestBelgian Film Shows People with Down Syndrome Can Survive

Director Bob Colaers has created a conversation piece in the new Belgian film TRIZOMBIE (2024), premiering at Fantastic Fest this week in Austin, Texas. The film follows a group of people with Down Syndrome as they survive a zombie apocalypse where only people with trisomy 21, an extra twenty-first chromosome, are immune to the virus.

The film was originally a TV miniseries and has been cut together into a film with surpr...

Bring Them Down Review

Film, Fantastic FestIrish Horror on a Sheep Farm with Barry Keoghan

In Fantastic Fest 2024 feature BRING THEM DOWN, Christopher Abbott plays Michael (Mikey) might-as-well-call-him-Danny-boy, a shepherd with a dark past forced into violence in this gripping domestic thriller. The film opens with one of the most heart-wrenching introductions to a character I’ve ever seen, taking the popular horror movie trope of opening a film with a car accident (Get Out, Final Destination, The Descent, etc., etc....

The Rule of Jenny Pen

Film, Fantastic FestAging and Its Horrors Explored in New Shudder Flick with John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush

“Life is precarious, happiness is fragile, triumph and disaster are only a random incident apart.” — Owen Marshall

Real-life Horror Often Overlooked

It may seem slightly out of character for IFP to review a film about old men in a care home, but stick with me. In its world premiere at Fantastic Fest, THE RULE OF JENNY PEN is a psychological thriller that follows Stefan Mortensen (Geoffrey Rus...

The Best Speculative Poetry is Intersectional

Reading from the 2024 SFPA Elgin Award Nominees

This is my sixth 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 Felicia Martínez, who I would like to thank for diligently tracking nominations.

Here are my previous reviews:

The Best Speculative Poetry of the Year is ExplosiveThe Best Speculative Poetry of the Year is EpicThe Be...