Category: Anthology

Anthologies

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Taking Submissions: Untitled Sword & Sorcery Anthology

Deadline: August 1st, 2025
Payment: $10 and a contributors copy
Theme: Sword and sorcery stories between 2,000 and 8,000 words

What we Want: Good sword and sorcery stories between 2,000 and 8,000 words for our upcoming anthology. No science fiction or horror.
What we Don’t Want: We don’t want splatterpunk or porn. No poetry. We don’t want pure romance stories, but of course you can have romance in the story (You know what we mean). If you don’t have a clue, then just send it anyway. As long as it has magic, heroes with swords, or involves mythical adventures, we’ll read it.
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Taking Submissions: Hellbound Highway

Deadline: August 31st, 2025
Payment: $15
Theme: Road Trip Terror

Are you brave enough to take a ride on the Hellbound Highway? HellBound Books is seeking short horror stories for an anthology on the theme of bad trips, which will be curated and edited by the double-trouble partnership of veteran horror writers Jane Nightshade and Ann O’Mara Heyward. We want road trips, sure, but also airplane journeys, ship crossings, railroad passages, heck even cattle drives–as long as it’s a trip and it’s B-A-D.

What if a family like the Griswolds from National Lampoon’s Vacation were zombies? What if a weary business traveler waits for the red-eye in an airport that is literally a portal to hell? What if the night manager of the local Greyhound bus station was a vampire who feeds off of the poor and desperate? What if a crook on the lam checks into a cheap motel and discovers that the usual cockroaches are mutants with deadly powers? What if someone stopped at a cafe in the middle of nowhere, and slowly realized that they were the special on next day’s menu?

These are the types of scenarios we are looking for, so let your creepiest imaginings run wild. Scary horror, psychological horror, or comedy horror are all welcome–it just has to be GOOD.

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Taking Submissions: Samhain Screams!

Deadline: May 30th, 2025
Payment: $50 AUD and a contributors copy
Theme: Halloween

Edited by Greg Chapman and Cameron Trost

Halloween.

So much more than costumes and candy, it’s the time when the veil between our world and the other side is at its thinnest. The hour when dark forces come into the light in search of innocent souls. A time of blood and evil.

Australian Shadows Award-winning and multiple Bram Stoker Award-nominated author and artist Greg Chapman, and acclaimed author Cameron Trost, are seeking new original Halloween tales for this anthology, planned for release in October 2025.
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Taking Submissions: The Necronomicon of Sherlock Holmes

Deadline: June 15th, 2025
Payment: $125 and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Insert Sherlock Holmes into the realm of Lovecraftian Horror

Edited by Derrick Belanger & Brian Belanger

Description: Imagine Holmes investigating the disappearance of a college student in the mysterious town of Innsmouth, matching wits with a man who can reanimate the dead, or using his deductive skills to help fight creatures from beyond the realm of time and space. These are just some of the stories which could be included in the new anthology The Necronomicon of Sherlock Holmes. The anthology will feature traditional Sherlock Holmes stories blended with one or more of Lovecraft’s tales.
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Taking Submissions: Dark Canadiana: An Anthology of Canadian Horror

Deadline: April 5th, 2025
Payment: $40 CAD and a contributors copy
Theme: Horror stories by Canadian authors set in Canada

Calling all Canadian authors!
Dark Canadiana: An Anthology of Canadian Horror is accepting submissions until April 5, 2025.
We want your Horrifying/spooky/unsettling short stories that showcase the people, places, and things of Canada. Stories set in Canada. Stories staring Canadians. Stories full of Canadiana.
Give us your serial killer at a Provincial Park. Give us a haunted landmark. Give us a monster in the forests of BC. Give us all the Canadian chills and thrills.
Canadian authors only!
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Taking Submissions: Hellbound Books’ Anthology of Extreme Horror

Deadline: June 30th, 2025
Payment: $5
Theme: Extreme horror, brutal, splatterpunk, etc

We are looking for your most brutal, bloodied,horrific stories – no holds barred; we challenge you to disturb our most seasoned, desensitized curators with your tales of extreme horror and mind-bending terror…

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Taking Submissions: Where Legends Walk!

Deadline: April 30th, 2025
Payment: $10 and a contributors copy
Theme: Stories about superheroes performing daring feats in the face of true evil

Oddity Prodigy Productions is proud to announce that we are open for submissions on our latest anthology: Where Legends Walk!

These superhero stories will be an exciting tribute to extraordinary feats in the day-to-day. There is a planned Kickstarter to cover publishing costs. Publishing date and distribution is as yet undecided.

The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2025.

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Taking Submissions: Space Opera Stories

Deadline: April 30th, 2025
Payment: $50 and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Space opera stories with any of the following themes:
Note: Reprints welcome

Here’s a new project I’ll be launching via Kickstarter in May, 2025. And I’d like to invite you to submit a story for consideration! Feel free to share the link to this page with others.

New Sci-Fi Anthology Series
24 Space Opera Short Stories Wanted
Sub Window Closes April 30, 2025

Genre: Space Opera

 

Four Volumes of Six Stories Each

Each Volume Will Feature a Specific Theme:

  • First Contact
  • Alien Invasion
  • Generation Ship
  • Colony World

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