Category: Anthology

Anthology / Events / Flat Amount / Reprints Allowed

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Taking Submissions: Moonlight & Misadventure

Deadline: January 15th, 2021
Payment: $10 USD for reprints and $20 USD for previously unpublished
Theme: Moonlight & Misadventure
Note: Reprints allowed

Call for Short Story Submissions

 

 

Anthology Title: Moonlight & Misadventure: 20-22 Stories of Mystery & Suspense

 

Genre: Short story/mystery/suspense

 

Publisher: Superior Shores Press

 

Editor: Judy Penz Sheluk

 

Deadlines: The deadline for submission is January 15, 2021 or until 100 submissions have been received, whichever comes first. Starting December 2020, the website page will be updated periodically with the number of submissions received. Late submissions and/or submissions after 100 entries have been documented will not be considered.

 

All submissions will be acknowledged within 7 days. If you do not receive an acknowledgment within that time, please Contact Me.

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Anthology / Trembling With Fear

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Trembling With Fear 11/08/20

Focussing on the good news this week – and don’t we need it these days?! I’ve just downloaded the latest issue of Sirens Call ezine and noticed a number of TWF writers in the TOC: the prolific Radar DeBoard is literally book-ending the TOC, and we also see Will H. Blackwell, Jr, RJ Meldrum – the man gets everywhere!, the ever-wonderful Alyson Faye, Patrick Wynn and our reviewer, John C. Adams. Check it out and see what our writers are coming up with in other publications.

Congratulations to John C. Adams on the news of his recent engagement to Jimmy Graves and excellent news too from Patrick Winters who has just come through some major surgery. Here’s love and best wishes to both.

NaNoWriMo is also well underway. It’s one of those times where you can give yourself permission to ignore the housework and just write. I post my numbers and whilst I do tend to double-up whenever I can it’s not for competitive reasons – it’s just that there might be evenings when I cannot do as much as I want because of other demands on my time, eg TWF and Horror Tree work or I might be in a state of mental exhaustion after the day job(!). I’ve seen a few people posting that they’re also on NaNoWriMo. I hope they’re having fun with this and it’s going well.

The first story in Trembling With Fear is Scorch the Earth by Kevin M. Folliard and it reminds me very much of the Men in Black films. His writing also has a strong visual quality transforming the words immediately into that ‘movie in the head’. And I love this bit of dialogue, “You will be a crust of ash on the forest floor. Then carbon in the wind.” He also has a wonderful last line.

1 2 3 4 or The Consequence of the Numerical Sequence by Steven Holding is something different where certain numbers can be misinterpreted with horrific results.

The Opportunist by Connor Long-Johnson contains some nice misdirection and an excellent example of personification.

They All Fall Down by Radar DeBoard is something which, whilst set in a different era, could so easily apply to our own times. I like to see current circumstances or modern preoccupations reflected back at us, it gives the reader a vested interest in the tale and creates an immediate hook.

Enjoy the stories and send us yours!

Take care

Steph

 

Stephanie Ellis

Editor, Trembling With Fear

HELLLO TWF Readers!

For the lovers of fiction out there we have some great stories today and for those of you participating in NaNoWriMo, I hope that you’re meeting all of your writing goals! 

Just a quick reminder, the following sponsor is still supporting the site through the 15th so please do pick up a copy of the anthology if you haven’t already.
– ‘It Calls From the Sky‘ from Eerie River Publishing. This one was edited by A. Robertson-Webb and M. River.

If you’re looking to sponsor the site or even a giveaway please do reach out. Also, we have an extra thank you this year for the sponsors of Horror Tree. If you’ve been a Patreon, sponsor, or have some supported the site in a major way we’re going to be putting together a special Christmas Shopping list that showcases you! Please reach out with what you’d like included and see this post on Patreon for more details!

I don’t have much for you this week. My day job has me SUPER busy once again but I’ll try to have something more for you next week. Have a great one my friends! 

Stuart Conover

Editor, Horror Tree

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Anthology / Events

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Indie Book Launch Roundup

Indie Book Launch Roundup 11/06/20

Click on the book covers for more information.

Got a book to launch, an event to promote or seeking extra work/support as a result of being hit economically by Covid? Get in touch and we’ll promote you here. The post is prepared each Thursday for publication on Friday. Contact us via Horror Tree’s contact address or connect via Twitter or Facebook. And if you scroll to the bottom of the page, you might also find freebie and special offer links!

Support Your Indie Authors and Reviewers

This is a space which I hope will help bring extra work to those who’ve been hit economically by Covid. If you’ve lost your day job, had hours cut, are struggling and have services to offer, a new venture, a patreon page to promote etc, let us know and we’ll plug them here.

Erin Sweet Al-Mehairi’s 25% off Covid 2020 discount for novels and novellas applies until the end of the year. You can also find out about her editorial and publishing services here.

Events

November – HWA Horror University Online – has the following workshops online, open to both members and non-members:

9th November – Done to Death with Tim Waggoner.
Go here for further information https://hwa46.wildapricot.org/event-4011815

10th November, 3pm Pacific time – HWA Skeleton Hour with authors from The Black Cranes anthology. Register for the free webinar here.

Please send us details of any online panels, conventions, festivals and workshops and we’ll list them here.

Latest Book Launches

 

Charity Anthologies

 

30th Oct It Came From The Darkness: A Charity Horror Anthology by [P.J. Blakey-Novis, David Green, C.M. Saunders, Justin Boote, Tim Lebbon, Gemma Paul, D.J. Doyle, Roma Gray, Matthew V. Brockmeyer, Mark Anthony Smith] End Nov

 

 

Horror Tree Sponsor* Releases!

16th Oct

*All Horror Tree sponsors are able to claim a spot at the top of our listing during the donation of their sponsorship. Please use our contact form for more advertising pricing.
 
 

 

October 2020

20thDownwind, Alice 22nd 22nd Foul Womb of Night (Midnight Bites Book 1) by [Elizabeth Donald, Gustavo Bondoni, Adam Stemple] 23rd The Haunting of Hacket House by [Astrid Addams]

25th Within The Fog by [Charles Welch] 26th Forest of Fear 2: An Anthology of Halloween Horror Microfiction (Fright Night Fiction) by [Zoey Xolton, Stacey Jaine McIntosh, J.E. Feldman, Kevin J. Kennedy, Majanka Verstraete, Cindar Harrell, Stuart Conover, Beth W. Patterson, David Green, Valerie Lioudis] 27th 28th F is for Fear (A to Z of Horror Book 6) by [P.J. Blakey-Novis, Renee Miller, David Green, Lee Franklin, Mark Anthony Smith, Donna Cuttress, C.M. Rosens, Ariel Dodson, Bryan Miller, Damir Salkovic]

28th Memento Mori: A horror collection (Shattered bulbs Book 1) by [Sabrann Curach] 29th 30th A Song for the End by [Kit Power]31st The Ancient Ones (The Ancient Ones Trilogy Book 1) by [Cassandra L. Thompson]

31st Ascendant: The Martiniere Legacy Book Two by [Joyce Reynolds-Ward] 31st Full Moon Digest: Stories to read by moonlight by [G.A. Miller] 31st 31st Frankenstein's Mistress: Tales of Love & Monsters by [Michael McCarty, C.L. Sherwood, Holly Zaldivar, Terrie Leigh Relf, R.L. Fox, Cindy McCarty, Sherry Decker, C. Dean Andersson]

November 2020

2nd The Sound of Distant Engines by [Robert Dunn]13th Eight Cylinders by [Jason Parent, Crystal Lake Publishing]14th Bleak Midwinter and Other Christmas Horror Stories by [Charlotte O'Farrell]15th The Worm and His Kings by [Hailey Piper]

15th Realization: The Martiniere Legacy Book Three by [Joyce Reynolds-Ward] 17th The Lupin Project: Amazon.co.uk: Allan Leverone: 9780998416144: Books24th

Offers and Freebies

Free on Kindle 4-6th Nov Prince of Nightmares by [John McNee, Blood Bound Books] Free – always! Stuck On You by [Jasper Bark, Crystal Lake Publishing, Rob Moran]

Only £0.99/$0.99 – ’til 11th Nov 00:00hrs Scattered Little Pieces by [Wayne Fenlon]

Happy reading.

Steph

 on behalf of Stuart and the Horror Tree Team

 

Anthology / Events / Royalties / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: Alternative Deathiness

Deadline: March 1st, 2021
Payment: $.02 a word and royalties
Theme: A fun filled romp into the concept and nature of Death.

B Cubed Press is pleased to announce an open call for Alternative Deathiness.  A fun filled romp into the concept and nature of Death.

Seriously what the hell is death, big guy with bones and a sickle? An ominous Tarot Card?  Or is it simply the passing of one thing for another.  A change in phase. Or, it is the ending of you, and just you, a personal FU from the universe that say oopsie, you’re out of here?

So be prepared to look hard at this topic, its rituals, its layers.  Have fun.  May as well,  considering the end comes for us all.

This book will be edited by Bob Brown and Irene Radford, the team that brought you the best selling Alternative Truths.

If you wonder what perspective the editors bring just remember, we’re old.  Our friends are old, our families are old.  Death is beginning to feel more like a roommate than a concept.  So?  Let the stories rip, show no deference to religion, ritual, or sensitivities.  For god’s sake, we’re talking death here!

And don’t try sneaking zombies and ghosts and vampires in to get around death.  Oh we might buy one or two REALLY GOOD Ones, but that isn’t the focus.

Does this mean we will not accept sensitive looks at this from a more popular perspective?  No, but it means that it will be tested against the criteria that the writing be good, and carry an explanation of the nature of death. In terms of what we are looking for, think openly about the concept of death and life, can’t have one without the other.  The setting is open anywhere in time and space.

This book will be part of the best-selling Alternatives series.  We will be accepting stories, poetry, and essays from now through March 1, 2021.

Story length for our books average about 2200 words but have ranged from 100 to 7500 words. However, we only use one or two stories over 5,000 words and our advice is to keep it under 5K, unless we communicate in advance.  Reprints are accepted, but we hold them to a higher standard and limit them in number.

Pays $.02 a word upon publication, plus a share of the profits. As always a share will go to charity, usually ACLU, but that can be changed to something else by agreement with all the contributors. Collaborations will earn 1 share to be split between contributors.

Submissions should adhere to SFWA formatting guidelines https://www.sfwa.org/2005/01/04/manuscript-format/. It’s always good to make an editor happy.

For the first time we are using Moksha, submissions are accepted at https://bcubedpress.moksha.io/publication/alternative-deathiness.

Should you have any questions, please contact Bob at [email protected].

Via: B Cubed Press’s Moksha.

Anthology / Events / Flat Amount

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Taking Submissions: ProleSCARYet: Tales of Horror and Class Warfare (EARLY LISTING)

Deadline: November 30th, 2020
Payment: $75
Theme: The horrors of capitalism
Note: This market does not open until November 1st and will not take submissions prior to that.

ProleSCARYet: Tales of Horror and Class Warfare will be a print and e-book anthology about the horrors of capitalism. We want monstrous bosses, jobs from literal Hell, working class folks fighting back against great cosmic evils, and any other wild idea you can come up with. As long as it’s anti-capitalist and horror, it’s good. We also welcome dark weird fiction and horror-adjacent sci-fi.

The anthology is open to all writers, but we would especially like submissions from anti-capitalist writers of marginalized groups.

Stories should be between 1,000 and 4,500 words.

Multiple submissions are not allowed. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but withdraw your submission immediately if it gets accepted elsewhere. No reprints.

Open for submissions November 1st, 2020 – November 30th, 2020.

We will announce accepted submissions by January 15th, 2020.

Anthology will be published in spring 2021.

OTHER SUBMISSION CONSIDERATIONS

  • If you’re retreading old ground and well-established tropes, make it fresh.
  • We’re fine with horror that has erotic elements, but emphasis should be on the horror.
  • Yes, make it anti-capitalist, but don’t be moralizing. We want nuance.
  • Stories that deal with bigotry are fine, but bigoted stories are not.
  • Splatterpunk is fine, but gore and extreme elements should serve story, character, and theme.

FORMAT

Use standard manuscript format. Send a doc/docx attachment. Do not copy-paste your story into the body of the email or submit it in any other format — we won’t read it if you do.

Please send submission to [email protected]. Include your name, story title, and word count in the subject heading (e.g., Karl Marx — “Capitalism Bad” — 3,500 Words”).

Include an author bio of under 100 words and no more than two links to accompany your story.

PAYMENT

$75 for a short story after contract signing and final edits, and a free e-book copy of the anthology following publication.

PROCEEDS

Half the proceeds from this anthology will go to Labor Rights, an organization advocating for the rights of workers around the world. The other half of proceeds will go toward funding a future anthology project.

RIGHTS

Exclusive First Worldwide Publication and Electronic Rights for three months, and non-exclusive rights thereafter.

Via: ProleSCARYet.

Anthology / Events / Flat Amount

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Taking Submissions: Love Gone Wrong

Deadline: October 31st, 2020
Payment: $8
Theme: Love gone wrong
Note: The author submitting MUST BE FEMALE (or identify as female).

Deadline: Oct. 31, 2020

Payment: $8 flat fee per story (author must have a valid PayPal address as that will be used for payment)

Publisher: Twisted Wing Productions

Theme: Love Gone Wrong

The theme can explore ANY type of love: romantic or platonic, obsessive, mother/daughter/son relationship, father/daughter/son, bestfriends, siblings, unrequited love, loss of love, falling in love with the wrong person, addiction, love/attachment for a specific place, location or building, student/teacher relationship, etc. The genre is HORROR. Stories MUST have elements of horror in them.

The author submitting MUST BE FEMALE (or identify as female). The author must retain full rights to the work intended for our consideration and that the work itself is complete and not published anywhere else (including personal websites or social media). Having been previously published isn’t a requirement, if you have a compelling story, send it to us!

Format: Word doc, 12 font, double space Times New Roman.
Not a reprint.
We are asking for exclusive first worldwide electronic and print rights for 18 months and the right to keep the story in print, and nonexclusive right to continue to publish for the life of the anthology. We do not place any limits on what the author does with the story after the exclusivity period.
We are not looking for poetry or screenplays.

Bonus: Characters in stories are own voices, POC, or LGBTQ

Submission method: Please send story as an attachment (.doc or docx. Only) to azzurranox[at]yahoo.com
Please include the following with your submission:
Author (Legal Name)
Pen name (if applicable)
Email
Story Title
Word Count
Third person biography

The anthology will be published both in e-book and print formats with an estimated publication date of February 2021.

Via: Azurra Nox.

Anthology / Events / Flat Amount / Reprints Allowed

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Taking Submissions: Family

Deadline: January 1st, 2021
Payment: $20
Theme: Killing your… Family
Note: Reprints welcome

We want you to kill off those family members.
Grandma, brother and sisters, even the pet bird.
Make it good, make us squirm.

Length: 3-10k
Single spaced
TNR 12pt
Word or dox files
Re-prints accepted

Pay: $20/accepted story

Send subs to: [email protected]

Via: Terror Tract’s Facebook.

Anthology / Flat Amount / Ongoing Submissions

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Ongoing Submissions: Mysterium Tremendum

Payment: $50
Theme: Where religion and horror collide, do read below to see exactly what they mean!

We originally conceived of Mysterium Tremendum as an anthology scheduled for release sometime in 2021. Due to frequent interest expressed in this project by writers and readers alike, we’ve decided to try something a little different. We’re excited to present Mysterium Tremendum, a quarterly chapbook featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry exploring the intersection between weird fiction/horror and the holy.

The title of the series comes from Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy, in which the German Lutheran theologian describes the “numinous” at the heart of religion as an experience preceding any systematic dogma or ethical component–a “feeling,” in short, much closer to the sublimity of horror than any sensation popularly (read “dully”) conceived as “religious” (love, happiness, well-being). An astounding array of writers have since, whether consciously or not, furthered Otto’s observations. Some of them explicitly tie horror fiction to the holy. Scholarly works directly examining this connection include Victoria Nelson’s The Secret Life of Puppets, Douglas Cowan’s Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen, and Kirk J. Schneider’s Horror and the Holy. Georges Bataille is also relevant here, along with the Communion books of Whitley Streiber, and contemporary philosophers like Rene Girard, Jeffrey Kripal, and Erik Davis.
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