Psychopomp and Circumstance, by multiple award-winning, Eden Royce is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic. Published by Tor.com, this book will transport you back in time and into the heart of the American South.
Phee St. Margaret is a daughter of the Reconstruction, born to a family of free Black business owners in New Charleston. Coddled to within an inch of her life by a mother who refuses to let her daughter live a life other than the one she dictates, Phee yearns to demonstrate she’s capable of more than simply marrying well.
When word arrives that her Aunt Cleo, long estranged from the family, has passed away, Phee risks her mother’s wrath to step up and accept the role of pomp—the highly honored duty of planning the funeral service. Traveling alone to the town of Horizon and her aunt’s unsettling home, Phee soon discovers that visions and shadows beckon from every reflective surface, and that some secrets transcend the borders of life and death.
Available everywhere books are sold, Psychopomp and Circumstance is out today, and is already being hailed as an enchanting and beautiful story full of luscious prose by multiple reviewers. This book will certainly make a great addition to my Reading List.
Curious about Psychopomp and Circumstance? You can read a lovely excerpt at Reactor Magazine.
Psychopomp and Circumstance by Eden Royce
ISBN: 9781250330963
Publication Date: 10/21/2025
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
