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Deadline: October 1st 2014 Payment: .05/word + royalties and author copies I AM THE ABYSS Now Open to Fiction Submissions for Adventure Stories of Horror and/or Dark Fantasy! We are happy to announce that Dark Regions Press is open to public fiction submissions for the first time in a very long time for our new upcoming anthology I AM THE ABYSS. This very special project will consist of ten original adventure stories of horror and/or dark fantasy each illustrated with an original two-page color spread by award-winning artist Les Edwards. The book is planned to be published in Q4 of 2015. Find the submission guidelines below, and please read them from start to finish before sending us your manuscript. Thank you and we look forward to reading your fiction!   I AM THE ABYSS Submission Guidelines (Must Read Before Submitting) The Idea When each of us reaches the end of our life in this world our consciousness enters a new perpetual reality during the seconds before the brain loses activity. This world is based on the subconscious and experiences we had during our mortal lives. The structures, landscapes, creatures and cities are amalgams of what we perceived during our short journeys on earth, and there our consciousness will stay (unless we find a means of escape). These are ten stories of tortured souls and dark minds whose difficult mortal lives have come to an end. Their consciousnesses have been transported into underworlds of their own making. It is here that they rediscover forgotten corners of their minds, creatures that they never thought their imaginations could conjure, cities grander or more bizarre than anything they had experienced in their mortal lives. In these underworlds the characters will truly discover themselves; their darkest fears and deepest desires will manifest. But within these realms...

Deadline: October 1st 2014 Payment: All royalties from anthologies will be split evenly between all authors. Note: Just as a warning, since this posting has gone live we've had over 15 e-mails that the press is being run by people who don't pay their authors. Serrated is a collection of short stories and poetry/prose of horror. Examples; Hospitals, insane asylums, all there to help but what if they were stashing body parts, or running experiments on patients. Serrated is about your worst nightmare coming true behind closed doors of a morgue, hosptial, funeral home, or asylum. This is a no holds barred piece. Make it violent, make it bloody. Blurb Behind closed doors, secrets lurk, and madness begins. Trapped in a never-ending nightmare of torture and pain, I welcome you to tales of the macabre. Night falls everywhere, what you don't see is what happens when the shadows hit the walls of the inner-sanctum of the dead. Serrated will show you the likes of which horrors you've never seen behind the walls in the modern-day dungeons of the world. Guidelines Short Stories and Poetry/Prose accepted Supernatural/Paranormal/Non-Paranormal Min Word Count: 800 Words (if it is a bit short talk with me) Max Word Count: 7,000 Words (if you go over talk with me) Poetry does not have a word count Submit to [email protected] Word doc 12-14pt. Georgia or Times New Roman Editing will be provided unless author prefers their own editor Via: Phoenix Fire Publishing.

Deadline: October 1st, 2014 Payment: 5 cents per word December--Arthurian Legend What ho! (No, we don't mean Guinevere.) For centuries, the magic and mystery of King Arthur and Camelot have enthralled readers. Thanks to great authors like Marion Zimmer Bradley and T.H. White, there's a strong tradition of Arthurian books on the fantasy bookshelf. So add your own myths to the Round Table; send Lancelot out on one more quest. Let's play in Camelot and Avalon until the mists gently cloak us from the modern world. CALL BEGINS AUGUST 1, 2014 CALL ENDS OCTOBER 1, 2014 Penumbra is looking for original, unpublished stories of 3500 words or less. We prefer that writers use Standard Manuscript Format for submissions. (You can read this article by Chuck Rothman on the SFWA site on preparing a manuscript for submission if you are unfamiliar with SMF.) Please send your stories as file attachments in .rtf or .doc formats only. Please include a cover letter in the body of your email, with the manuscript title, you pen name if applicable, the exact word count of the story not including title and byline, and a publication history if applicable. Penumbra is a professional rates paying publisher, paying 5 cents per word. We will evaluate poetry submissions for each issue. We will also consider previously published stories with rights reverted to the author. Penumbra has multiple issue calls open at the same time, therefore it is imperative that you include the issue theme in the subject line of your email. Submissions that do not include this information risk getting lost in our queue and not read before the deadline. Penumbra uses Musa Publishing’s house style guide, which relies upon the Chicago Manual of Style. All accepted stories will be edited to reflect Musa house style. If you have never...