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Deadline: July 31st, 2012 Payment: .03 a word and 3 complementary contributor copies The age of steam meets the age of Cthulhu, in a past where technology unbound warps Victorian Britain and the world at large into a dark Steampunk reality. In Steampunk Cthulhu (yes that’s only a working title) we are looking for stories set in a world where futuristic visions of technology, advanced machines undreamt of in the Victorian era, are powered by steam, or sometimes the inscrutable minds of dark, god-like beings. Undreamt of yes, and maybe a nightmare here, think of what would happen if HG Wells had sent his Time Machine to a past when the Elder Things ruled the globe, or Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo was an evil acolyte of Cthulhu? Of course we don’t want you to limit yourselves to fictional characters of the genre, but you can use these, historical personages and your own protagonists and cultists of Cthulhu. Space travel, journeys to the center of the earth and 20,000 leagues under R’lyeh, we want to see Victorian globetrotting adventurers and wild technologies in the Wild West. Think zeppelins crossed with tomes of forbidden knowledge, steam powered automatons battling indescribable beasts from beyond time and space, fanciful high-tech gadgets and blood drenched arcane artifacts, the wonders of tomorrow meting the horror of inescapable doom, and if you can put your own unique spin on both the steampunk setting and the Cthulhu Mythos, so much the better. Authors should be well versed in both the stempunk setting and Lovecraftian horror as a good blending of both is what we’re after. If you’re looking for info on steampunk, check the Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk) for a brief overview and a small selection of authors and books to get you started. If you need to bone up...

DEADLINE: July 31st, 2012 PAYMENT: 40% of anthology’s net-profit divided equally among authors + 1 contributor’s copy Carnivals. Everything you could imagine from traveling entertainment – food, games of chance, sideshows, dancing girls, funhouses, fortune tellers, rides . . . and the seeds for nightmarish realities made flesh. Give us tales of monstrosities underneath boardwalks, circuses in the middle of nowhere, inner-city performances that boggle the imagination and sideshows containing what nature never intended. Please supply a basic log line (1-2 sentences) about the story you’re submitting and mention any recent publications in your cover letter. If writing under a pseudonym, please include that information as well. DEADLINE: July 31st, 2012 WORD COUNT: 4,000-12,000 words (query for shorter / longer) PAYMENT: 40% of anthology’s net-profit divided equally among authors + 1 contributor’s copy REPRINTS: No MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS: Limit of two, Maximum of one accepted SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: No FORMAT: RTF JUSTIFICATION: Left-justify only FONT: 12 point Times New Roman or Courier New TAB INDENT: ¼ inch and use margins rather than manual paragraph indents SPACING: Double-Spaced PAGE NUMBERING / HEADERS: No page numbers headers or footers CONTACT INFORMATION: Name, Address, Phone Number and E-mail at top-left of first page SUBMISSION: Send to “[email protected]” with “Last Name / Submission Title / Word Count” in the subject line NOTES: We welcome any questions for clarification. E-mail them to “[email protected]” We will only be accepting a maximum of two (2) stories involving a sideshow. No present-tense stories Confirmation e-mails will be sent out once per week. Some stories within the anthology will have artwork based on their work created. Those chosen are required to sign a release. Do not put your story in the body of your e-mail. Send it as an attachment. Rejection letters will contain a basic explanation. We will do our...

Deadline: Deadline is July 31,2012. Payment: $50 and two contributor’s copies Here’s an idea – because I don’t have enough to do, I’ll publish an anthology. This year. With an exclusive short story. Yeah, I’m not too bright. But I want to write a story about a bad vampire. You know, the kind of guy who just does what he wants and damn the consequences. No angst, just fangs. Since I want to write this story, I of course think people will want to read it. Since I think people want to read one story about a bad guy, I think they might want to read a whole anthology of stories about bad guys. So here it comes – The Big Bad – an anthology of evil Send me your best short story (6,000 words max, if it has to be longer contact me first) that features a bad guy or evil character as the protagonist. It can be fantasy, urban fantasy, superhero, horror, whatever. Just send me your best bad guy story. I’m taking twenty. Email submissions to johnhartness AT gmail DOT com, as a .doc or .txt attachment. Include a brief author’s bio, please/ I’m paying $50 for one year’s exclusive electronic and print rights plus two contributor’s copies. After that we retain rights to publish electronically in the anthology only, and in print in this anthology only, but you can take it and sell it somewhere else, or sell it yourself as a standalone. Deadline is July 31,2012.

Deadline: July 31, 2012 Payment: Royalties will be based on the number of authors published in the anthology. 50% of all profits will be divided equally among the authors. The final percentage will be specified in the contract. Open Call for "Halloween Horror" Anthology Submissions Release Date: October 1, 2012 Due Date for Submissions: July 31, 2012 Prose by Design is now open for submissions for Horrors of Halloween, an anthology of short stories edited by Cindy C Bennett and Sherry Gammon. The story should revolve around Halloween or horror. Your story may be in any genre (contemporary, historical, paranormal, supernatural, etc.) as long as the main theme is either horror or Halloween. The inclusion of vampire, werewolves, and/or ghosts is entirely up to you, the author. Your story must be "clean" which means no profanity or explicit sex scenes. We all like a little heat, but keep it PG13 or better. Your story must be a minimum of 5,000 words and a maximum of 25,000 words. Royalties will be based on the number of authors published in the anthology. 50% of all profits will be divided equally among the authors. The final percentage will be specified in the contract. Story must be submitted as an email attachment to [email protected] Your story must be submitted by Midnight PST July 31, 2012 as .doc or .docx files. Manuscript should be 12 pt. Calibri, Times New Roman, or Arial with block style paragraphs (no tabs). Write "Halloween Horror" as the subject of the email, and include the following information in the body of the email: Name, penname (if applicable), and the title of your story. You may submit multiple stories, but only one story per author will be included in the anthology. Stories must be original and previously unpublished in any format....

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...