Deadline: January 15th, 2025
Payment: $20 for original stories, $15 for reprints, $40 to their favorite short
Theme: Extreme horror
Note: Reprints Welcome

Dancing Griffin Press is seeking extreme horror stories for the upcoming anthology UNHOLY ADMISSIONS. We are looking for stories with limited characters and locations that feature extremely dark elements. Blood, guts, gore, etc. is more than welcome as nothing is off limits except excessive depictions of sexual violence. Violence towards children is acceptable, though we are not necessarily looking for stories with children as the main characters. Get creative! Your story can be about a newlywed couple who get attacked by a pack of rabid zombie skunks on their honeymoon or it can be about a mechanic who comes home from work and randomly snaps and kills his whole family. Gross-out stories are very much encouraged as well. Just have fun, and make sure to bring the violence.

Length: Between 3,500 and 7,500 words

Pay: $20 for original stories, $15 for reprints, $40 if your original story is our absolute favorite

Window: November 15th – January 15th

Expected publication date: March 15th, 2025

Please email stories to lifeafterdeathproductions@gmail.com with the subject “Unholy Admissions,” and attach your story or stories as .docx files. Include a short bio of yourself in the body of the email. You may enter up to three stories. Reprints of course are welcome, but please do not send us more than two reprints for consideration.  Simultaneous submissions are fine, but let us know immediately if your entry needs to be pulled for any reason. Please do not use AI. Do not stress about the format – fonts, font sizes, line spacing and layouts do not matter as all of that will be changed anyway if your story is accepted. You own the rights to your story always.