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Deadline: October 31st, 2017 Payment: $25usd and contributor's copy $25.00 PLUS COPY Min word count: 3,000 words. Max word count: 10,000 words. Send submissions to: [email protected] DEADLINE: OCT 31ST 2017 THE ANATOMY OF MONSTERS VOL. 2 We’re looking for new takes on old monsters! What unholy pact did the very first vampire make to become what they are now? How did Werewolves become slaves of the moon? Who was the first Ghost in the world and how did they react? The Mummy, The Hunchback, The Phantom Of The Opera, The Invisible Man, and even The Creature From The Black Lagoon... How did they come to be? How do they deal with their new nature? And who suffers because of it? This volume will be open to more folklore horror, Witches! Baba Yaga! And many, many more! I prefer less splatter and more scare. News will follow on these pages: The Anatomy Of Monsters Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheAnatomyOfMonster/?ref=bookmarks Twitter: @RDTEUN

Deadline: October 31st, 2017 Payment: $10usd Edited by Jeremiah Donaldson “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” -Victor Hugo There’s a funny thing that can soothe the soul after a rough day at work, can put you in the mood to take on any challenge, or can transport you back twenty years in time. It’s the most widely enjoyed mode of entertainment and the most used form of mood alteration. Music. Your story must involve music in some way. This could take the form of a specific genre or song, but also the creation of music, an instrument, or even the lack of music. What would you do if you didn’t have your favorite music to calm your mind or to motivate you? What horrible deeds are prevented on a daily basis because someone listened to their favorite song? How many people are alive because someone heard the right song at the right time? What is the power of music? Note: This is a HorrorAddicts.net anthology. Your story must be a Horror story and contain something emotionally, physically, or mentally horrifying. Manuscript Format: Font: either Courier or Times New Roman. Double spaced, font 12 point. Your manuscript must be in either DOC or RTF format. 1st page header to state: author name, mailing address, email address, and word count. Following pages header to state: author name, story name, and page number. In the body of the email: 100 words or less bio about you. One sentence explaining the story attached. Your elevator pitch. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram ids Your website or blog Subject of the email state: CRESCENDO OF DARKNESS/Author Name/Story Title Send to: [email protected] No previously printed work and no simultaneous submissions. Deadline: October 31st, 2017, 11:59pm PST Length: 2,000-5,000 words...

Deadline: October 31st, 2017 Payment: 10 USD per story Stitched Smile Publications in collaboration with Paul Mcvay present: Drive-in of the Damned: Black and White Guidelines:  We are looking for 13 original stories (reprints will be considered on a case by case scenario) Word Count: 7500 word max Deadline: October 31st 2017 Anticipated Release: Summer of 2018 (Drive-in Season!) Compensation: 10 USD per story, multiple submissions allowed (one at a time), but only one story will be chosen per author. Submissions: We accept word documents only. Once you have submitted, please be patient. Acceptance letters will be sent within 90 days *after* the deadline. Send all submissions via form at www.stitchedsmilepublications.com (click “submissions) and be *sure* to include DRIVE-IN OF THE DAMNED for clarification! Or Email directly to: [email protected] Summary: The sky was dark driving up the road to the drive-in. Headlights from other cars cut across your vision as you pull up to the ticket booth. With the window down, the warmth of the air was reprieved by the passing of a single breeze. The operator was nothing more than a silhouette in front of the flickering bulb behind him. He reaches out a thin, bony hand with his palm up and you place your money in the center of it. When he curls his fingers inward, you notice that they are unnaturally cold in comparison to the temperature. Leaning forward, he gives you a wide grin and you can see the highways of deep lines through his wrinkled skin. ​ “Right this way,” he says, swinging his arm out. He directs you to the one of the many paths that leads down into the quarry where countless screens form a circle at the bottom of the quarry. You pass the big sign with giant letters that announce your arrival to … “The Drive-in...

Deadline: October 31st, 2017 Payment: 1 cent per word for fiction and nonfiction, and a flat fee of $10 for poetry NonBinary Review is a quarterly digital literary journal that joins poetry, fiction, essays, and art around each issue's theme. We invite authors to explore each theme in any way that speaks to them: re-write a familiar story from a new point of view, mash genres together, give us a personal essay about some aspect of our theme that has haunted you all your life. We also invite art that will accompany the literature and be featured on our cover. All submissions must have a clear and obvious relationship to some specific aspect of the source text (a character, episode, or setting). Submissions only related by a vague, general, thematic similarity are unlikely to be accepted. We are open to submissions which relate to Shirley Jackson's 1962 book We Have Always Lived In the Castle.  Submissions which do not tie into the plots or make use of characters/settings from the stories WILL NOT be considered--there needs to be a clear connection to the source material.  We want language that makes us reach for a dictionary or a tissue or both. Words in combinations and patterns that leave the faint of heart a little dizzy. FICTION, CREATIVE NON-FICTION, FLASH & HYBRID/EXPERIMENTAL NonBinary Review accepts fiction and creative non-fiction of up to 5,000 words in length, although shorter is probably better. Fiction should be double spaced, 12-point type, in Times New Roman or similar font in a Word document or text file. Authors may submit up to 5 pieces of flash fiction, no more than 1000 words each, in this category. Please upload each piece as a separate document on this submission. Flash (fiction or CNF) is the ONLY category where multiple pieces related to the same theme may be selected for publication....

Deadline: October 31st, 2017 Payment: $0.02 per word Attention, writers of horror fiction. We’re currently seeking short stories for an upcoming anthology titled Lost Films. In 2016 we released Lost Signals, which has done very well for us. Think of Lost Films as its sequel. We are looking for horror stories involving films, Hollywood, projectors & projectionists, home movies, webcams, television, documentaries, and other themes involving recorded visual disturbances. We want these stories to be weird and terrifying. Some good examples of what we’re after: Cigarette Burns by John Carpenter, Starry Eyes by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, Experimental Film by Gemma Files, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, “Ardor” by Laird Barron, Videodrome by David Cronenberg, Angel of the Abyss by Ed Kurtz, and everything else discussed in this LitReactor article.   Deadline: October 31, 2017 Payment: $0.02 per word Word count: 1,000-8,000 Reprints: No   Send all submissions to [email protected] with “LOST FILMS – by ” in the subject line. If you haven’t heard back from us by December 1st, feel free to query. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask. And if you’re interested in the first installment, you can purchase Lost Signals here. Good luck. I look forward to reading your stories. Via: Dark Moon Digest.

Deadline: October 31st, 2017 Payment: $20 per story. ANTIMATTER publishes flash fiction and story experiments inspired by the latest science news and discoveries. We're most interested in flash fiction, but we're also open to story experiments, narrative games, and text messager-based stories. HOW IT WORKS First, find a recent scientific story, headline, or discovery that sparks your imagination. (View science headlines here. View scientific story prompts here.) Then, use that real science headline to inform, drive, or inspire an original flash science fiction story. A short story up to 500 words (about one single-spaced page that can be read aloud in about five minutes). A story with a plot (though we’re open to creative interpretation). A story linked to a recent science headline, new discovery, or new hypothesis or theory. Writers are encouraged to experiment with the flash fiction story form. For example, your story could be framed as a lab report, scientific article, message transcript, or a poem, or a script. It’s not required, but preference is given to stories crafted to feel real - like they really happened. Such stories can include many links to sources, authoritative quotes, and other techniques that lead the reader to suspend disbelief. HOW TO SUBMIT A STORY We use Submittable to manage story submissions. When you send us your story via Submittable, you will need to include a link to the article that inspired your story as well as a short bio. You will receive notice if your story is accepted within five days of submission. Payment is sent within 21 days of notice of acceptance. Antimatter will promote your story via social media, potentially including paid promotion, and via our email newsletter. PAY Antimatter Magazine pays $20 per story. We issue payment within 21 days of story publication. Additionally, we reserve the right to offer you more money...

Deadline: October 31st, 2017 Payment: $5 per thousand words and two printed contributor copies (or 1 copy per poetry.) Simultaneous submissions are allowed as long as you let me know.   Update: All stories need to be self-contained/Stand alone.   I don’t mind a story being part of a series, but it can’t be a serial. Update #2: No HARDCORE sex!                           No Sexual violence!                          No UNDERAGED SEX!! I’m looking for original (no reprints) well-written (duuh, I guess that that’s fairly obvious) weird stories. My tastes are broad and I’m looking for any of the following: fantasy, dark fantasy, sword and sorcery, ghost, horror, heroic fantasy, science fantasy or just plain odd. And please, no cover letters or biographies. Just Shunn Format! One Story Submission at a time, please!   And please, no stories longer than 5,000 words.   Important: Please include your name, address, email address, the title of your story and its word count in your email. Preferably attach your story as a doc, docx or rtf file. Please send it in a standard format; if in doubt check here for guidance: http://www.sfwa.org/2008/11/manuscript-preparation/ http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html   Current payment is $5 per thousand words  and two printed contributor copies. Only one copy for poetry. (That’s $0.005 per word) Please send your submissions to: weirdaether(AT)t-online.de   And lastly, if you want to impress me then you need to ENTERTAIN ME!!   Regards. Douglas Draa Editor Via: Weirdbook Magazine

Deadline: October 31st, 2017 Payment: $5, royalties, and a contributor's copy This annual collection of funny paranormal stories is the press’ flagship series. Your tale must be funny (no depressing endings) and have supernatural/paranormal elements. Examples of stories from previous collections: Homicide is summoned to a halfway house for the undead, a Shriner becomes a weregoat, and a mummy regrets hiring a cheap embalmer. Story length should be 2000-6000 words. If you sub something of a different length, it better be really funny. The submission window is October 1st - October 31st, 2017. Please do not sub sooner. Publication of SF V will take place in April 2018 (our feet will be held to the fire). Send your submissions to [email protected] with “Strangely Funny” in the subject line. If we buy your story, you will receive a free print copy of the book and a $5 USD advance on royalties. For further information on royalties and publishing rights, please go to our Guidelines and Payment page. Via: Mystery and Horror LLC.

Deadline: October 31st, 2017 Payment: Contributor's Copy The goal of this anthology is to shout loud and proud that The South holds some of the best horror writers and authors. What’s unique about this project is that it will not only include a collection of shorts but also hold hand-picked dark poetry! We simply cannot limit an anthology of this nature to just short stories, though those are the main material that will be included.   Submissions for short stories need to be between 3,000-7,000 words in length.  Some considerations will be made for stories just over or just under, but those works will be chosen best on quality, blow our minds and attempt to scare us to death with your vivid imagery through words. We are wanting quality stories over word count.   This anthology’s target audience is an adult audience that is 18 years and above, so no children’s horror stories, please. We also will not accept extreme erotica horror (mild adult scenes are fine as long as it pertains to the story’s forward projection or to display character traits), rape, incest, pedophilia, or domestic violence.   This anthology is strictly for horror authors and writers that live in The South. It is not restricted to those that have moved to The South, imports are fine! ;) This book is restricted for southern writers and authors at this time as the aim is to have southern authors and writers submit, but not limited to strictly to readers. If this has enough interest we can add a couple of future anthologies with other regional authors and writers in mind. I.E. an anthology featuring northern writers or just the east coast, for examples.   Submissions are currently open and must be sent to: ​[email protected]   Please title the email: Southern Fried...

Deadline: October 31st, 2017 Payment: $15USD Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Is this anthology looking for horror stories in the form of newspaper articles? The answer: Yes, that's exactly what we're looking for! For this anthology, we’re looking for stories that embody the spirit of the good ol’ newspaper headline! In fact, your story title MUST BE the headline. We want feature pieces that belong on the front page; stories that draw you in and take hold of you as they unfold while the ink is still drying. The work should exemplify the flashy style that only hot-off-the-press journalistic prose can entail. And if you want to go full-on tabloid, have at it. Give us the trash, give us the dirty laundry, but most of all, give us the juicy bits. Remember, this is a horror collection, so be sure to keep one thing in mind: If it bleeds, it leads! Deadline: October 31, 2017 Word Count: 2,500 – 5,000 words All submissions MUST be submitted to: [email protected] Reading & Evaluation Period: Two to three months after close of the deadline ** NO REPRINTS WILL BE CONSIDERED ** Payment: Each story selected for inclusion will receive a one-time payment of $15USD, an eBook contributor copy, and the right to purchase an unlimited number of print books at discount. As per our standard guidelines, there will be no stories containing pedophilia, or graphic rape scenarios accepted. For a full list of our guidelines, please visit our websitewww.SirensCallPublications.com. Via: Sirens Call Publications.