Deadline: July 7th, 2012
Payment: $5 advance against future royalties paid upon anthology publication followed by annual royalties (paid every December). Stories under 1,000 words will receive only the original $5 payment (no future royalties).

Theme: New takes on the classic ghost story
Submission period: May 7-July 7, 2012

World Weaver Press seeks new and previously published short fiction in the vein of the classic ghost story for themed anthology, SPECTER SPECTACULAR, to be published fall 2012 as ebook and print edition with online distribution.

Spirits, hauntings, specters, boggarts, poltergeists — give us your best ghosts and spooky whatnots! Scary or funny, tragic or redemptive — we’re looking for the full spectrum. We’ll be looking for at least one funny piece to end the anthology. Anthology will be published fall 2012, but stories don’t need to be Halloween themed.

We hope writers will draw inspiration from such classics as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, A Christmas Carol, The Woman in Black, The Haunting of Hill House, Annabel Lee or others, but we are not (necessarily) looking for retellings of those tales. This is not an anthology for slashers, serial killers, zombies, vampires, or other undead creatures (their World Weaver Press anthology will come one day; this is not that day).

Rights sought: For previously unpublished stories, first world rights in English and exclusive rights to publish in print and electronic format for six months after publication date after which publisher holds nonexclusive right to continue to publish. For reprints, non-exclusive world right to publish in print and electronic form; publisher requests reprinted stories not be resold to other markets for six months after the anthology publication date.

Length: Fiction 1,000 – 10,000 words. This range is malleable but odds of us buying something outside the range is highly unlikely.

Payment: $5 advance against future royalties paid upon anthology publication followed by annual royalties (paid every December). Stories under 1,000 words will receive only the original $5 payment (no future royalties).

Submit: Email submissions[at]worldweaverpress.com with the subject line: “Specter Spectacular, [story title]“. Include a brief letter containing your name, story’s title, approximate word count, (optional information: relevant publication history, how you heard about this anthology), then paste the full story in the body of the email following your letter. Please make it very clear where paragraphs break — this means if your email doesn’t let you indent paragraphs, you’ll need to put an extra space between each paragraph for submission purposes.

[via: World Weaver Press.]