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Taking Submissions: Bullet Points Volume 11

Deadline: July 1st, 2025
Payment: $30 for original stories and $20 for reprints
Theme: Dark military science fiction, not on horror in the sense of blood, gore, and the like, but in the psychological and atmospheric sense
Note: Reprints Welcome

The stories in Bullet Points 11 (October 2025 release) will focus on dark military science fiction, not on horror in the sense of blood, gore, and the like, but in the psychological and atmospheric sense. Good examples would be the Alien and Predator movie franchises. This special issue will focus on creepy and strange places around the galaxy and how soldiers put in these environments have to overcome adversity to still achieve their objectives.

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Taking Submissions: Bullet Points Volume 11

Deadline: July 1st, 2025
Payment: $30 for original stories and $20 for reprints
Theme: Dark military science fiction, not on horror in the sense of blood, gore, and the like, but in the psychological and atmospheric sense
Note: Reprints Welcome

The stories in Bullet Points 11 (October 2025 release) will focus on dark military science fiction, not on horror in the sense of blood, gore, and the like, but in the psychological and atmospheric sense. Good examples would be the Alien and Predator movie franchises. This special issue will focus on creepy and strange places around the galaxy and how soldiers put in these environments have to overcome adversity to still achieve their objectives.

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Trembling With Fear

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Trembling With Fear 6-15-25

Greetings, children of the dark. I’m sure there’s quite a few of you either currently at StokerCon, or watching proceedings from afar and wishing you were. I’m certainly in the latter. All the fun horror stuff happens Stateside and it’s not fair! 

Given the dark fiction community is otherwise occupied this weekend, I’m going to jump straight into this week’s menu of short, dark, speculative fiction…

Actually, before I do that, one thing: thank you for hearing our plea and helping us to feed the Drabbler. Alas, this is an ongoing concern, so please do keep ‘em coming! And also remember what best satiates that Drabbler appetite: a complete story in 100 words, with a beginning, middle and end. Not just a vignette, or a thought, or a hint of a scene. It’s got to be a recognisable story structure to get through the gate and into the Drabbler’s belly. We’ve noticed – and this is across the short stories as well as the drabble submissions coming into TWF Towers recently – that there are plenty of solid ideas, but they’re getting let down by execution. And we really, really want to not execute the idea, so please keep at ‘em until they are a full story. 

OK, back to the dishes. Our main course is an ominous bit of dark fantasy flash from Alex McNall. That’s followed by the short, sharp speculations of:

  • Kendra Recht’s good bones,
  • Isa Ward’s snowy visitor, and
  • Kamran Connelly’s drive for revenge.

Good reading, one and all – and enjoy your solstice next Saturday, if you celebrate such things. 

Over to you, Stuart

Lauren McMenemy

Editor, Trembling With Fear

Hi all.

Just a reminder that Trembling With Fear: Year 7 and More Tales From The Tree: Volume 5 are now available for order! Again, a huge shout out and a big thank you to all of the authors who contributed to it and all of our editing staff for helping push this one live!

Our next goal is the newsletter swapover and the new layout going up on the website.  

Now, for the standards:

  • Thank you so much to everyone who has become a Patreon for Horror Tree. We honestly couldn’t make it without you all!

Offhand, if you’ve ordered Trembling With Fear Volume 6, we’d appreciate a review!

For those who are looking to connect with Horror Tree as we’re not really active on Twitter anymore, we’re also in BlueSky and Threads. *I* am also now on BlueSky and Threads.

Stuart Conover

Editor, Horror Tree

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Indie Bookshelf Releases 06/13/2025

Got a book to launch, an event to promote, a kickstarter or seeking extra work/support as a result of being hit economically by life in general?

Get in touch and we’ll promote you here. The post is prepared each Tuesday for publication on Friday. Contact us via Horror Tree’s contact address or connect via Twitter or Facebook.

Click on the book covers for more information. Remember to scroll down to the bottom of the page – there’s all sorts lurking in the deep.

 

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Anthology / Events / Flat Amount / Novella

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Taking Submissions: The 13th Floor

Submission Window: June 15th – August 31st, 2025
Payment: £100
Theme: 30,000-50,000 word stories that take place on the mysterious 13th floor! (details in the post)
There’s a floor that shouldn’t exist—yet it does.​

We’re Thrilled You’re Considering Submitting Your Short Story!

Hidden between levels. Left off the blueprints. Sometimes sealed behind walls. The 13th Floor is a psychological horror anthology rooted in the idea of a floor that was never meant to be there—and never truly left.

Some say it’s cursed. Others say it’s a threshold: a place where time frays, memories shift, and the boundaries between the living and the dead grow thin.

We’re seeking three slow-burning, atmospheric novellas—each between 30,000 and 50,000 words—that explore the strange and terrifying manifestations of this floor. Think elevator rides that don’t end, rooms that remember, buildings that deny their own architecture, and people slipping through cracks in reality.

This is horror for readers who love creeping dread, surreal twists, and haunted spaces that feel far too real. If you’re inspired by the tension of Stephen King, the eerie distortions of Koontz, or the uncanny quiet of Jackson—this is for you.

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Anthology / Contributor's Copy / Events / Flat Amount

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Taking Submissions: Let the Right One Simmer, Volume 1

Deadline: November 3rd, 2025
Payment: $10 and 5 contributors copies
Theme: A horror themed recipe book that pairs your short story with the perfect recipe

May 19, 2025-November 3, 2025

          Killer recipes to appease warm-blooded guests as well as those centuries past their prime

Campfire Publishing is excited to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for, “Let the Right One Simmer, Volume 1”, the first volume in our horror-themed cookbook collection!

Please read below to ensure that your story will be a good fit, and feel free to reach out to us–via the form located on our main page or by sending an email to [email protected]–if you have any questions.

What are we looking for?

From main course to after dinner drinks, we are on the lookout for a range of recipes served with a side of blood-curdling backstories ranging from 5,000-8,000 words.

Campfire Publishing is keeping its eye out for a wide range of chilling voices accompanied by food that’s to-die for, from seasoned (pun intended!) to novice-we LOVE publishing and supporting newer writers!

We want twists and turns, thrills and chills; make us want to sleep with the lights turned on at night; most important, make us hungry!

What are we NOT looking for?

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Taking Submissions: Let the Right One Simmer, Volume 1

Deadline: November 3rd, 2025
Payment: $10 and 5 contributors copies
Theme: A horror themed recipe book that pairs your short story with the perfect recipe

May 19, 2025-November 3, 2025

          Killer recipes to appease warm-blooded guests as well as those centuries past their prime

Campfire Publishing is excited to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for, “Let the Right One Simmer, Volume 1”, the first volume in our horror-themed cookbook collection!

Please read below to ensure that your story will be a good fit, and feel free to reach out to us–via the form located on our main page or by sending an email to [email protected]–if you have any questions.

What are we looking for?

From main course to after dinner drinks, we are on the lookout for a range of recipes served with a side of blood-curdling backstories ranging from 5,000-8,000 words.

Campfire Publishing is keeping its eye out for a wide range of chilling voices accompanied by food that’s to-die for, from seasoned (pun intended!) to novice-we LOVE publishing and supporting newer writers!

We want twists and turns, thrills and chills; make us want to sleep with the lights turned on at night; most important, make us hungry!

What are we NOT looking for?

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Trembling With Fear

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Trembling With Fear 6-1-25

Greetings, children of the dark, on this first day of June, and the first day of summer here in the northern hemisphere. Otherwise known as the height of my allergy issues: thanks, pollen! So while I bunker down inside and stare at the lovely weather from my window – no, seriously, I was at a music festival last weekend and could actually *see* the pollen it’s so bad in London this year! – I’m going to be working my way through the rest of the short story submissions awaiting word. Stay tuned, dear submitters.

There’s also, hopefully, news on the much-overdue 2023 anthology being shared below by the big boss man. 

So, through bleary eyes and stuffy nose and general malady, I present to you this week’s menu of short, dark, speculative fiction. Our main course comes from Tahla Ahmad, and takes us right into that space where folklore meets warzone. That’s followed by the short, sharp speculations of:

  • Autumn Bettinger’s case notes,
  • Kevin McHugh’s mail call, and
  • Nicolette M. Ward’s bleary memory.

And one final plea, before I go mainline antihistamines: the drabble cupboard is getting awfully bare again. Please, send us your tiny tales of terror, ASAP!

Over to you, Stuart

Lauren McMenemy

Editor, Trembling With Fear

Hi all.

I’m on vacation next week… That being said, about ten minutes before typing this, I received the new cover art proofs for TWF, so I’m going to try to get those scheduled to go live before I leave (or possibly sneak some laptop time and get it done, woo!)

I think we’ve got the newsletter bugs figured out, it will be at the top of my list to finalize when I’m back from vacation. 

Now, for the standards:

  • Thank you so much to everyone who has become a Patreon for Horror Tree. We honestly couldn’t make it without you all!

Offhand, if you’ve ordered Trembling With Fear Volume 6, we’d appreciate a review!

For those who are looking to connect with Horror Tree as we’re not really active on Twitter anymore, we’re also in BlueSky and Threads. *I* am also now on BlueSky and Threads.

Stuart Conover

Editor, Horror Tree

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