What are we looking for?

HORROR

We are seeking high-quality, stand-alone novels, novellas and potential novella series in HORROR. 

At this time we are not interested in short story collections, erotica, strictly religious fiction, YA Fiction, or poetry.

We want unique, well-crafted worlds with compelling plots, exciting adventures, entertaining characters,  for mature audiences. Most importantly we want to be scared! Give us your grim, heart-wrenching twist. The perfect story would balance the light and the dark pieces of the storyline with humour, alongside the emotional twists and turns. In essence, if you can evoke a gambit of emotion throughout the story then we will be hard-pressed to say no.

Manuscripts should be written in good taste, and be aimed for a mature audience. As this is horror we expect the scary and horrible, and we encourage a step toward darker, more horrific tones within the storyline. We won’t shy away from some use of violence and gore. However, we will not be accepting any manuscripts with detailed rape scenes, pedophilia, sexual torture, or untoward behaviours regarding animals of any kind (you know exactly what we mean).

Novel submissions should be under 100,000 words. 

Novella submissions should be approximately 25,000 – 60,000 words. Although we are not requiring a series for novellas, if you have a potential series we would be interested in seeing some outline should your manuscript be chosen to move forward to second round considerations. 

Please ensure that you are sending us the best version of your story to be reviewed. For novels your manuscript should be completed in full, have already undergone beta readings, editings and revisions. For novella and series, the first of the series should be completed in full, have already undergone beta readings, editings and revisions, and an outline of the next books should be in place and ready to discuss. 

Submission Guidelines and submission form can be found https://www.eerieriverpublishing.com/publishing

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

 We will be asking for the first THREE chapters of your story as a doc/x file for consideration. Please have this ready and formatted for upload.

Manuscripts must be completed in the Shunn style format

We will only be reading and considering unpublished and original works. This does include works published on websites, author pages, Reddit, and any other forum or site found on the internet.

What to expect on the upload form: The form button will be made available on the date the call opens.