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Deadline: January 15th, 2014 Payment: Exposure Only The Shadows Only Hide the Monsters: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe. Micro (100-500 words), Flash (500-1K) and Short Stories (1k up to 2500 words). Lovecraft and Poe style horror stories. Special win for a good-old Poe style detective stories (it has to have monsters, though) and new takes on the Cthulhu Mythos. Deadline: January 15th 2014. Submissions should be sent to [email protected] Copy and paste your submission in the body of an email. Attachments will not be opened. No exceptions. Please do NOT format your stories in blog-format style. Format it as you would for a regular print submission. Formatting blog-style (no paragraph indents, spaces between paragraphs) causes me horrible headaches when I try to load the stories onto a post. Spaces between paragraphs adds more than one extra space on the post, due to the HTML horror known as a div tag. I truly hope the son of a bitch who came up with that rots in hell. WordPress automatically inserts a crapload of div tags whenever it encounters space, adding even more space. (I know, WTF? Right?) I am a college student and I don’t have time to take out extra space, which would really make your stories look horrible if left in. But please DO indent paragraphs. If you don’t, I won’t know where new paragraphs begin and will have to reject your story just because of that. Please include with your submission a 50-100 word author bio. You can include a brief publication history and any web/social media links you’d like readers to know. For the subject line, follow the directions listed for each issue on the Call for Submissions page. The basic format is: NAME OF ISSUE-TITLE OF YOUR STORY. In all caps. Easier...

Deadline: January 15th, 2014 Payment: 2c/word or a percentage of net sales Note: The publisher doesn't list 'horror' as a theme so I'd keep this in the light horror or suspenseful to most likely have a shot. Just a thought and not advice you need to listen to. Local Magic This is your opportunity to add a little magic to the past. Tell me the tale of a real place, in a real time, but with a fantastical science element. The story must feature a real geographic place, a building, a street. It doesn’t have to exist now, but it has to have really existed. A lake? A saloon? An alley? Stories we will be including in this anthology should include: 1 part Magic Your choice of wizards, artifacts, monsters or the like. 1 part Science The magic component above is fueled by Science! 1 part Local History Set your story in a real place that you know well. The location is not just window dressing. The location should be integral to your story. Culture and geography and real world history have conspired to create events that could have occurred no where else. Email submissions to: [email protected] Subject ATTN: LOCAL MAGIC Word count: short stories of 3,000 to 5,000 words, novelettes of 7,500-10,000 words. Pay: 2c/word or a percentage of net sales. This is going to be a digital-only publication. Your story should arrive in Microsoft Word and be formatted in the industry standard (or come so close that no one will notice: i.e. Times New Roman or Courier, double-spaced). Antimatter Press welcomes submissions from all people, regardless of age, color, religion, gender identity or writing experience. Deadline is January 15, 2014. Via: Antimatter Press.

Deadline: January 14th, 2014 Payment: In most cases payment will be 5 cents per word within 60 days of acceptance and a contributor's copy within 30 days of publication. Debuting in 2014 Jamais Vu - The Journal of Strange Among the Familiar is a new pro journal from Post Mortem Press, set to feature the absolute best in dark fiction, poetry, factual morsels, criticism, and more. Issue Two is scheduled for release April 15, 2014. Submission Window is open December 1, 2013 - January 15, 2014. Decisions will be made no later than March 1, 2014. The title comes from the French--The strange among the familiar--and is as close to a "theme" as we're looking for. Confused?  Think Richard Matheson, Jack Finney, Neil Gaiman. Specifically, we're a horror/thriller market, but are open to crossing genres, given that one of the crossed genres is horror/thriller (no western-romance, or science fiction-mystery, okay?) Language and violence are not a problem if both components are integral to the plot, dedicating 3,000 words of your 4,000 story to the graphic depiction of human mutilation would have a hard time. The tropes--vampires, zombies, serial killers, werewolves--will have also struggle to get noticed unless the writer presents them in a completely new light. Stories that really work to act out your latent parental issues or your insecurities with the opposite sex are best given to your therapist, not us. Stories which exist solely to depict the abuse of children, women, or animals will be rejected outright.  Similarly, NO torture or splatter-punk. More concise than we could ever put it, the folks over at Strange Horizons have compiled a list of "Horror Stories We've Seen Too Often".  Check it out: http://www.strangehorizons.com/guidelines/fiction-common-horror.shtml  Granted, some of these things offer an interesting premise within which a brand new and different story can be written, but if your story...