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Deadline: July 31st 2012 Payment: $.02/word. Two copies of the trade paperback. Payment upon publication. INTO THE DARKNESS Anthology Edited by C. Dennis Moore and David G. Barnett Necro Publications INTO THE DARKNESS was a magazine started by David G. Barnett in the mid-90s and focused on modern adult horror fiction by new authors, many of which are now respected names in the horror fiction world: Edward Lee, Charlee Jacob, John Everson, Gerard Houarner, DF Lewis and dozens more. After only five issues Necro moved into books and stopped publishing the magazine. Well, now Necro wants to bring it back. Okay, not the magazine, but the spirit of it in the form of an all-new anthology series. INTO THE DARKNESS Anthology is looking for dark, brutal, unrelenting horror fiction from new and established authors alike. One of the things we always loved with the magazine was finding new voices in modern horror and we want to start doing that again. Here’s some things we’re looking for: • Solid story and interesting characters are the two most important elements. • Modern voice. Nothing old fashioned. No traditional ghost stories. We’re not looking for writers trying to channel Lovecraft or Poe. • New monsters. If you’re going to create a monster then explain the monster. Don’t just throw it in at the end. The monster is probably a hell of a lot more interesting than anything else. Same goes for killers and psychos. • If you’re going to give us a vampire, zombie or other traditional monster please do something new and interesting with it. • Violence, sex, profanity and gore are all fine as long as they are integral to the story. If you’re just trying an experiment in writing only grossout we don’t want it. After 20 years we’ve seen...

Deadline: July 31st 2012 Payment: $.03 per word, no royalties and 3 free books and additional copies at 50% off cover. Over the river and through the woods does not always lead to grandma’s house or happy endings – especially if grandma’s house is infested with zombies… or if grandma is really a Lovecraftian being in disguise. Once Upon an Apocalypse is a two volume post apocalyptic anthology laden with the undead and otherwordly mythos crossing into the realm of fairy tales, nursery rhymes and other timeless stories. Editors Rachel Kenley and Scott T. Goudsward and publisher Chaosium are currently open to submissions for these two books of mixed up retold fairy tales. What are we looking for? For both volumes we want stories with strong narrative lines, stronger characters and a clear blending of the theme and the fairy tales. For Volume One imagine Cinderella arriving at the ball and discovering it filled with zombies. Or how different the story would be if it were Snow White and the Seven Zombies. Give us new horrors with Alice in Zombieland, and a Prince who climbs Rapunzel’s hair to get away from and find a way to defeat – you guessed it – zombies. In Volume Two we want a strong dose of Lovecraft thrown in. What happens to the townspeople in The Boy who Cried Cthulhu? Pinocchio is going to have a much harder time getting out of the Old One than the whale; a wolf would have been preferable to Little Red Riding Hood and the Byahkee and the Little Mermaid has so much more to worry about then her legs and a missing voice when she faces a Deep One. Once you choose a story to change it’s your call how far you will take it. Make the...

Deadline: July 31st 2012 Payment: Exposure Only We are seeking submissions for Rigorous Mortis: A Collection of Mortician's Tales, edited by Allen Jacoby and Jo-Anne Russell. Morticians are, by all accounts, pretty damned interesting people. They possess the dexterity of doctors, the talent of artists, and just a drop (or maybe a gallon) of the macabre fascination with death that any good horror writer (or reader!) knows all too well. So, we thought, why not write about THEM? After all, we've all read our fair share of stories about the dead, why they died, and who killed them...but what about the people who deal with the aftermath? So that's what we want. Give us your tales of undertakers, morticians, coroners, either as heroes, villains, or just good hard working individuals trying to get a job done. Obviously, the theme is Morticians: We're expecting a good deal of slasher-tales, dead-rising, etc etc., But if you can manage to chill us to the bone and heat up our formaldehyde with a good romance or drama at the same time? Well then, more power to you. Just give us your best. Reprints okay, but they have to knock off our toe tags! Format 1. 12 point font, prefer Times. 2. Single line spacing, with an indent of .2”, special first line only. 3. No tabbing or spacebar indents please! 4. Attach submission to email, and include a cover letter in the body of the email with standard contact information: Name, address, email, etc. 5. We will accept attachments in the following formats: .doc, .docx. .rtf. If these formats are not possible for you, query with the format you are able to use. Payments and Deadlines As we are just starting out, monetary payment is not possible at this time. We hope in the...

Deadline: July 31, 2012 Payment: 5 cents per word. Theme: SciFi - Horror The Wily Writers site publishes two short stories per month in both audio and text formats. We host a celebrity editor for each of them, and they choose the stories along with the producer (Angel Leigh McCoy). We publish only short fiction that falls under the genre umbrella of speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal romance/mystery/adventure. We have specific themes that we’re asking you to follow. See below: Submission Requirements Submissions need to follow the guidelines listed below. IMPORTANT: Name your file so that it makes sense. An impressive filename for a fiction submission is: (lastname)-(word from title).RTF Word count: 1000 – 4000 (Firm. Do not query). Use standard manuscript formatting. (more info) No simultaneous submissions to other publishers. Multiple submissions okay, but only one story per theme. Story must have a speculative fiction element. Gore, sex, and adult language okay, but make sure it improves the story. We do not edit, so make sure you use good grammar, have double-checked the punctuation, and have done a spell-check. We prefer Chicago Manual of Style rules, and we will reject it if it’s a mess, even if it’s an amazing story. We may request revisions, so if you’re not open to the idea, then let us know in your cover letter. It will save us all some time by communicating that up-front. We will accept reprints. Make double sure that the rights have reverted to you. By submitting it to us, you affirm that it has been freed from all other commitments that conflict with the rights you give us. We reserve the right to change these guidelines without notice. Response Time: We will respond within 90 days after the appropriate issue’s deadline. Pay: Starting with...

Deadline: July 31st (or until full) Payment: Exposure and eBook copy Horrotica Press is a small indie publisher that seeks the sexy within the macabre. We focus on horror and erotica with a special preference for stories that stretch across both genres. Horrotica Press is now taking submissions for Crawl Space, a fast-paced anthology that will leave our readers breathless and begging for more. We want to read creepy, cerebral horror that will have them checking their closets and beneath their beds. Bugs, porcelain dolls, misshapen trees, cannibals; these things creep us out, but we want to know what creeps YOU out. If it makes your skin crawl, we want to read about it. What we DON'T want: Rape as titillation**Splatter/Gore**Excessive profanity**Overdone monsters such as vampires and werewolves (unless you have a genuinely unique take on them)* *Reprints and multiple submissions. Word Count: 4-7k words Payment: This will be a non-paying anthology intended to give new authors exposure. Contributors will, however, get one free copy of the ebook upon publication. Rights: Horrotica Press will retain full rights to the story until the anthology is out. Then the rights will revert back to the author. How To Submit: All submissions must be in 12pt Times New Roman, single-spaced, and attached in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format to an email that contains your contact information. Contact information should include your name, address, and email. Please indent without using spaces or tabs." Please submit to: [email protected]

Deadline: July 31st 2012 Payment: All contributors are will be paid £3.00 for every 150 copies of their respective anthology sold. This payment is cumulative, meaning that, if a given anthology sells 300 copies, each contributor will receive £6.00, if it sells 450 copies, each contributor will receive £9.00 and so on. This applies to all sales of the anthology, in every format. Royalties will be payable for the first two years of the book’s existence. Cruentus Libri Press is pleased to announce its forthcoming anthology, now open for submission. Lucha Gore: Scares from the Squared Circle is a horror anthology set in wild and wonderful world of professional wrestling. We are looking for stories that successfully combine the blood, sweat and tears of pro-wrestling with the macabre majesty of the horror genre. WHAT WE WANT Professional wrestling must, at the very least, provide the backdrop to the stories and, ideally, be an integral part of the narrative. We want to see the pageantry of sports entertainment, the no-nonsense appeal of old-school wrasslers, dazzling luchadores, hard-hitting puroresu and carnys stiffing the ever-loving crap out of boozed-up spectators in a post-War county fair. To this we want you to add suitably dark layers of horror and the macabre that make the reader realise that an unprotected chairshot is the least of a man’s worries. WHAT WE DON’T WANT It goes without saying that we do not want fan fiction. We have no desire to raise the ire of WWE’s legal department (nor that of any other existing promotion), any story that includes real wrestlers will be dismissed out of hand. Similarly, any storylines that are a bit too close to an existing pro-wrestling angle will be a big no-no. Use your imagination and come up with something new and exciting, not...

Deadline: July 31st, 2012 Payment: Royalty rates well above what authors can expect from most NY houses or epublishers. Entangled Books authors receive 9% of print cover price and as much as 40% of digital cover price, while Entangled Select and Entangled Teen authors receive 9% of print cover price and 20% of digital cover price. What if Sleeping Beauty didn’t wake from a spellbound slumber, but rose from the dead? What if the Big Bad Wolf was more interested in Grandma’s brains than in Little Red? What if Snow White was an ass-kicking punk goth grrl with her entourage of seven zombie minions? Classic fairy tales never die…and this Halloween, you’re going to help them rise from the grave. For our 2012 Halloween Ever Afters, Entangled Publishing wants your fairy tale retellings with an undead twist. Even in the land of the dead, survivors find love – and sometimes it’s a little easier with the dating pool narrowed down to anyone with a pulse. So take Alice on a trip down the rabbit hole into zombieland. Reinvent Beauty as a badass biker babe on the run from an ex-boyfriend turned into a flesh-eating Beast. Make us hungry for romance…or we’ll come for your brains. Submissions must: Be 20,000 to 40,000 words in length. Contain strong romantic elements. Be a retelling of a classical fairy tale involving zombies, whether traditional Grimm’s or classical stories from other cultures and collections. Please note that we will not accept retellings of modern / recently published fairy stories or fairy tales that may currently be under copyright. Avoid excessive gore and necrophilia. We’re looking for sweet and / or funny romances with a dark twist and elements of horror, not explicit horror stories – and definitely not sexualized depictions of intercourse involving the undead....

Deadline: July 31, 2012 Payment: $5.00 flat rate. $1.00 for every additional 1,000 over 5,000. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR “Down The Rabbit Hole” –Tales of slipping into new worlds. July 31, 2012 Edited by Jessica A. Weiss Email submissions to: [email protected] Please put SUBMISSION, followed by the title of the story, and word count, in the subject line of your email. Thank you. What We Are Looking For: Take us on a journey to another world. Think: Neverland, Oz, Wonderland, Fantasia, Narnia, Sliders, The Phantom Tollbooth, and Wind in the Doorway. We want to know what could happen in another place other than here, where the rules are new and unique. Prefer stories written in the third person—will consider first person if you knock our socks off. We prefer short stories in the 3,500- 7,000 word range, but will consider stories from 1,500-10,000 words. Refer to website for general submission guidelines. Payment: $5.00 flat rate. $1.00 for every additional 1,000 over 5,000. Submissions will be accepted until July 31, 2012 (12a.m. EST) Questions about this anthology? Email the editor at [email protected]

Deadline: July 31st Payment: % of profits from book sales CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: HOUSE OF HORRORS In the dark of night, a stealthy tread creeps down the empty hallway, creaking the floorboards. Drawing near your bedroom. Filling your thoughts with a thousand images of sunken-eyed horrors and hollow, gaping mouths of disjointed teeth, pallid hands reaching for you, death-whitened bodies turned translucent and cold. Closer. Closer. Closer, until your heart takes a single drunken stumble and then stops, caught in the frozen grip of terror. You stare at the black maw of the open door. It’s coming. Coming for you. It’s… …your sexy boyfriend shuffling back from a midnight kitchen raid, with crumbs on his chin and nothing else on but a sleepy smile. But pretty boy might want to put on some pants – because you aren’t alone in the house, and the dead are coming out to play. Entangled Publishing seeks Flirts with a haunting theme for our 2012 Halloween releases. We’re looking for chilling stories of ghosts, poltergeists, possession, haunted locations, ghost hunters, exorcisms – and maybe even love from beyond the grave. While romance is essential to the story, what we’re really looking for is that thrilling edge of fear to add spice to the romantic tension building between our H/H. Submissions must: Be 10,000 to 15,000 words in length. Contain strong romantic elements. Involve supernatural events at a haunted location. We’re looking more for ghost stories than standard paranormal romance with supernatural elements. More Paranormal Activity or House on Haunted Hill, less Underworld. Avoid excessive gore. We’d like chilling tales with strong romance, but nothing that would make our gorge rise. Scare us, thrill us, but let us keep our lunches firmly where they belong. All heat levels will be accepted, but erotic elements must...

Deadline: July 31st 2012 or until filled Payment: 1 cent a word US, plus one copy. Dark Opus Press is proud to present For all Eternity, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, our second annual anthology. We will be looking for stroies base on ONE of the following sins: Envy, Greed, Gluttonly, Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Wrath. We're sorry, but for the concept we're going for here we are not accepting poetry, reprints or artwork for this anthology. Our guidelines are simple. All stories MUST be based on ONE and ONLY ONE sin. Since we are accepting only seven stories for this project our acceptable word count has changed. All stories need to be between 3,000 and 6,000 words. This word count is firm and stroies outside this word range will not be considered. MUST be in proper manuscript format. This means: Courier New or Times New Roman fonts, doubled spaced, no extra space between paragraphs, indent paragraphs. Words meant to be italicised or bolded in the final print, please make sure it is that way in your manuscript. Please read our magazine guidelines to see what we do not want. If you don't review our magazine guidelines, we will know. Send your submissions to: [email protected] In the subject line please put: submission - Your story title/your sin of choice For example: Submission - Stewie's Melancholy/Sloth Payment for accepted works will be a 1 cent a word US, plus one copy. The reading period for this anthology will start July 1st and end July 31st or until filled. Stories sent before July 1st will be deleted unread. All submissions must be in either .doc, .docx, or .rtf Please be advised: If you require a form to be filled out by us in order for you to get our emails, we...