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Deadline: January 31st, 2018 Payment: 0.5p a word (£20 for 4,000 words, £30 for 6,000 words), a contributor's copy, and royalties 2018 sees the re-launch of the Alchemy Press Book Of… anthologies with a brand new title: HORRORS, edited by Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards. We are looking for horror stories … but tales that can be described as “weird”, “strange”, “amazing” and “peculiar”: stories that would have found a home in Weird Tales, Unknown Worlds, Fantastic and Fantasy Tales among other illustrious publications. Your story can be set in almost any era, any place but glimpse at and pervert the usual perceptions of reality – and unreality. We do not want stories that deal with common horror tropes without stretching boundaries. Avoid zombies unless they are tackled in an unexpected and strange fashion. No urban romance – you know, heroine falling for a vampire and so forth. Nor do we want to see religious tracts, adult content, and we really, really do not want gross-out horror tales. Please send your stories in a standard manuscript format (3,000-6,000 words ) to [email protected] to arrive by 31 January 2018 (contact us if an extension is required). Payment: 0.5p a word (£20 for 4,000 words, £30 for 6,000 words), plus a copy of the book and royalties. The anthology will be in print for a maximum of five years and then the book will become OOP. If you are interested put on your story-thinking hat now. Any questions please get back to us at the above email address or use this contact form. NOTES: We accept stories from anywhere in the world (the galaxy, even) if written in English We only accept email submissions We are looking for new stories although reprints may be considered Please present your manuscript as a Word document (or RTF or similar) using standard formatting (double spacing,...

Deadline: February 28th, 2018 Payment: $.05 per word Open for Nothing’s Sacred Vol. 4 From: January 26th – February 28th Projected Release Date: October 1, 2018 Nothing’s Sacred is Jack of No Trades Productions’ horror magazine. It is made up of  original short fiction, poetry, articles, book reviews, two sentence short stories, and comics. As said in the magazines’ namesake, nothing is off limits. The horror within can range from subtle to grotesque, psychological to physical, dark to full out terror so long as it is character driven. Theme wise, Nothing’s Sacred is relatively open outside of distasteful stories of rape, the degradation and/or humiliation of women, and child content of any kind. What we’re  looking for: Fiction – 3,000 word max. NO REPRINTS Pay rate $.05 Articles – Should be related to or about the horror genre. 2000 word max. Pay rate $.05 Poetry – 3 poems max per submission. 250 words max per poem. Pay rate $10 per poem. Two Sentence Fiction – Just as implied, these stories are extremely short. We will consider up to five submissions per author. Pay rate $5 per story. Comics – We first introduced comics into Nothing’s Sacred in Vol. 3 to include a humorous element to our layout. Comics should include elements of horror in them, and may be either a full page or a banner size (as you would find in your Sunday paper), strip. Pay rate $90 per comic. Pay out for all material: Upon publication Seeks North American Serial Rights and Electronic Rights. Guidelines for Submission: The following guidelines are intended to be used for all of the categories mentioned above. All Submissions should be double spaced and be typed in either Courier or Times Romans (preferably), 12 font. Submissions with multiple pages will be required to have page numbers after the first page. To submit, email material as an attachment with a description of the story in the body of the email. Also, to...

Deadline: March 1st, 2018 Payment: $5 for flash fiction and $10 to $20 (depending on length) for short stories and nonfiction to authors Issue #10: Primal Fears (Spring/Summer 2018) Footsteps follow but you turn around, and no one's there. You're alone in the dark. Lost in a strange and terrible place with no exits. You have no control. See and hear monsters under the bed, bogeymen and bad guys. Creepy-crawlies. Things that squish, splat, burst and ooze. Trapped in your body, trapped in your mind. Reality slips away. You're nothing more than an animal. Prey. Meat. Here are all the old terrors of childhood, the primitive, reptilian fears that have haunted our species since we first slunk from the mud and the fears that will chase us into the future. Submission deadline: 3/01/2018 "We are not afraid." Body Parts Magazine is an online literary magazine of horror, erotica, speculative fiction, essays and art. Each themed issue honors Eros and Thanatos, the Greek gods of libido and mortido—life and death. We celebrate the vast and various expressions of dreams and darkness, our primitive desires and urges, and seek to encounter—and embrace—those shadowy monsters who dwell in the dimly lit corners of human experience.  Fiction Body Parts accepts well-written, thoughtfully structured horror, erotic horror, speculative fiction, dark fantasy (including fairy tales and mythology), exceptional stories about ghosts, ghouls, monsters and wretched creatures, Gothic fiction, and all combinations of the above. Our boundaries are few and far between. Flash Fiction: 1,000 words or fewer. Short Stories: up to 8,000 words. Serialized or Longer Fiction: query us with total word count. Art/Photography We accept your original artwork and photography reflective of an issue’s theme. Email a query with a link to your art online (web, Dropbox, Google album, etc.) Payment varies. Essays & Interviews We accept short essays and interviews (up to 1200 words) about topics that fit...

Deadline: March 1st, 2018 Payment: ½ cent per word for original works, $10 for reprints, and a contributor's copy Note: Reprints Allowed Edited by Howard Rachen Deadline: March 1st, 2018 The curse is as old as folklore itself. They are the malediction of gods and witches, protections of the pharoh's tombs, the warnings for would-be thieves. Before the days of Hollywood, the werewolf was the victim of a curse. Today they linger with sports teams and in the theatre. Armoured Fox Press is looking for all manner of horror stories related to curses. Bloodlines with a black mark, tainted objects, locations under a hex, and anything else cleverly twisted into a curse. Be creative, don't just send us yet another unlucky penny, but something new that makes us hesitate to step on a crack or ignore that warning. We will NOT accept: Racism, sexism, or discrimination presented in a positive light. Pedophilia or sex with characters under the age of 18. Rape, torture, dubious consent, forced seduction. If you are in doubt, ASK. Better to ask then to get a straight up rejection! And remember, this is a non-erotic anthology, so please, no sex on screen. (this line can be changed) Furry (as this is not a furry anthology) Submission Details: Length: Max 7,500 words. . Payment: ½ cent per word for original works, $10 for reprints. Authors will receive a contributor copy. How to submit: Please use standard manuscript format. (http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html) Email a doc, docx or RTF file attention to Mr. Rachen at [email protected]. No simultaneous submissions please (Don’t also send your story elsewhere at the same time), and no more than one submission. Original stories and reprints welcome. (see Payment) We purchase exclusive publication rights in print and electronic formats for the period of one year from date of publication...

Deadline: March 1st, 2018 Payment: $25.00 You must be eighteen or older. Stories must be the previously unpublished, original work of the submitting author. Your story must be written in English, double-spaced in 12pt. Times New Roman font, and submitted by email as a .doc or .docx file attachment, or copied directly into the body of the email to [email protected]. Your story must be complete, edited, and publication-ready, between 3,000 and 10,000 words. Your story must be written (fully or partially) from a cat’s point of view. The cat (or cats) does not need to be a principal character, but its character should impact the plot in some manner. All genres and time periods will be considered excluding erotica, but including mainstream literature, romance, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, steampunk (or any “punk” sub-genre), humor, paranormal, or horror. Achieving a variety of genre will be a component in selection. Most adult language is acceptable, but indiscriminate or extreme usage may affect selection. Multiple stories by the same author will be considered but each story must be submitted separately and will be treated contractually as a separate submission. Simultaneous submissions are okay; but, please notify us immediately if your story has been picked up by another publisher. (This is a generous provision, and failure to advise us that your story is no longer available can jeopardize your future standing as a contributing author.) You will be notified of your submission status within thirty days of receipt. If your story is selected, emailed notification will include an attached Publishing Agreement for your review and signature. The following summarizes the major terms in the agreement, but the summary is not part of the agreement nor intended to replace the necessity to read the agreement in its entirety prior to signing. Publication: The story will be included...

Deadline: March 1st, 2018. Payment: $0.08 per word and royalties A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR This project is born of rage and sorrow and hope. Rage at the way America has been stolen and how those thieves have been eating away at its infrastructure. Sorrow at the lives being destroyed in the sorrow as well as for the earth as its protections are stripped away by a kleptocratic and corrupt regime. Sorrow for the way words themselves have been distorted and twisted away from truth. And hope. Because humans continue to progress and evolve, even though that climb is a rocky one and we slide back sometimes. We seem to have done so recently. And so this anthology, an attempt to rally, to inspire, and to awaken. Some stories will despair, but others will have the light we seek, lamps to light the path and show the pitfalls as we continue upwards. This anthology is part of my resistance. I hope it will be part of yours as well. – Cat Rambo 20 September 2017 FROM THE PUBLISHER The idea for IF THIS GOES ON came as a reaction to the isolationism, divisiveness, anti-science rhetoric, and fear-mongering that we saw all-too-frequently from our national leaders after the 2016 election. I was finally called to action by the hateful rally in Charlottesville, VA this summer. This project is very personal to me. A mezuzah is nailed to the doorframe of my house, here in Virginia, and I proudly top my Christmas tree with a Star of David every year. When I watched Vice’s powerful documentary on the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, as I watched a mob in broad daylight chanting anti-Semitic messages in my relative back yard, I could no longer ignore the fear I felt for the future of my country...

Deadline: March 1st, 2018 Payment: $25 You must be eighteen or older. Stories must be the previously unpublished, original work of the submitting author. Your story must be written in English, double-spaced in 12pt. Times New Roman font, and submitted by email as a .doc or .docx file attachment, or copied directly into the body of the email to [email protected]. Your story must be complete, edited, and publication-ready, between 3,000 and 10,000 words. Your story must be written (fully or partially) from a cat’s point of view. The cat (or cats) does not need to be a principal character, but its character should impact the plot in some manner. All genres and time periods will be considered excluding erotica, but including mainstream literature, romance, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, steampunk (or any “punk” sub-genre), humor, paranormal, or horror. Achieving a variety of genre will be a component in selection. Most adult language is acceptable, but indiscriminate or extreme usage may affect selection. Multiple stories by the same author will be considered but each story must be submitted separately and will be treated contractually as a separate submission. Simultaneous submissions are okay; but, please notify us immediately if your story has been picked up by another publisher. (This is a generous provision, and failure to advise us that your story is no longer available can jeopardize your future standing as a contributing author.) You will be notified of your submission status within thirty days of receipt. If your story is selected, emailed notification will include an attached Publishing Agreement for your review and signature. The following summarizes the major terms in the agreement, but the summary is not part of the agreement nor intended to replace the necessity to read the agreement in its entirety prior to signing. Publication: The story will be included...

Deadline: March 1st, 2018 Payment: $0.01USD per word. Announcing Radiant Crown Publishing’s upcoming anthology of weird western tall tales in the Subterranean Series, Hex Gunslinger! UBMISSIONS WINDOW January 1st, 2018- March 1st, 2018 Anything submitted outside of this window will be deleted unread. THEME ISBN-10: Coming Soon ISBN-13: Coming Soon Hex Gunslinger is an upcoming anthology of speculative, mysterious, and romantic weird western tall tales! Framed as an unearthed secret library years after the civil war, each story should hold the ethos of western expansion beginning in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase, and ending around the 1850s not necessarily restricted to a North American audience. Do not take manifest destiny as a mantra to live by. Shape a world with all the magic and mystery of the frontier without letting the ugliness of conquest be consumed with fantastic whimsy. We want wide open plains where violence ruled, underground movements brewing with tension, and the Wild Wild West in all it’s beauty and madness. Bring us your stories marking the age of the gold rush, injustice, genocide, mass immigration, transcontinental railroads, vigilante justice, telegraphs, outlaws, gunslingers, slick talkers, setting suns, and the impending civil war that would rip a nation apart. Deadline March 1st, 2018 11:59 EST. INSPIRATION Preacher (TV)                 Jonah Woodson Hex (Comic)                 RIGHTS SOUGHT FOR FICTION Non-exclusive archival rights as long as the website(s) hosting the work are online If an audiobook is produced, payment is $0.01USD per word for non-exclusive electronic audio rights First world electronic and print rights in English with exclusivity for 8 months from the date of publication Please query if anything listed is of concern. Here is a good explanation of what this entails. LENGTH & GUIDELINES SHORT STORIES: 1000 to 7,499 words. Paid $0.01USD...

Deadline: March 1sst, 2018 Payment: $50 and a contributor's copy Baba Yaga Anthology (actual title TBD) Anthologist: Kate Wolford Open for Submissions: January 1 to March 1, 2018 Expected Publication: late 2018 Story Length: 7,500 to 20,000 words Payment: $50 per story + contributor copy Baba Yaga, the terrifying witch of the forest in Slavic folklore, lends herself to all kinds of interpretations. Notorious for traveling in a mortar while wielding a pestle, Baba Yaga sometimes wreaks havoc on humans, but can turn around and help when she feels like it. And she is an early Tiny House owner--hers moves on chicken feet. Baba Yaga may be recognizable from classic images by Ivan Billibin, but, in the US and some other countries, her qualities are not as widely known as they are in Slavic countries. A link to learn more is HERE. Kate is looking for stories from Baba Yaga’s point of view, or the point of view from those she helps or hurts, or from anyone who might be a protagonist worthy of the Baba Yaga story. You can set the story in the past or present. The story can take place anywhere in the world. It can include romance or action or tragedy or comedy. Kate wants well-developed stories that don’t disintegrate at the end because they’re rushed or major plot lines are unfinished. Develop characters. Draw readers in with specific details. Make them root for the protagonist. The audience is age 15 and up. Please, no sci-fi, dystopian, erotica, high fantasy, time-travel, futuristic, space travel, or western submissions. No love triangles, please. Kate will not provide feedback at any point during the submissions period. Submission Method: Send your story pasted into the body of the email. Attachments will not be opened. Please email with Submission: in the subject line....

Deadline: March 1st, 2018 Payment: $50 and a contributor's copy Calling all authors—we've got a new collection of short horror in the works, and we want you! See below for details. Deadline: March 1, 2018 Length: 5,000 to 8,000 words Payment: $50 plus contributor's copy ​Submission Criteria We are interested in short horror fiction about people who sneak into abandoned, forgotten, shunned, or cursed communities and survive to tell the tale. For example: Centralia, Pennsylvania—the mining town abandoned because of an uncontrollable underground coal fire; Love Canal—the New York neighborhood declared off-limits due to extreme environmental pollution; and Pripyat—the Ukrainian city evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster. The emphasis is on communities—a haunted house or other such localized place is not large enough to qualify. The place in your story must not ever have existed in the real world (i.e., no stories about the vanished Roanoke Colony), but must be described as a place that could plausibly exist. For instance: Stephen King's fictional town of Derry. Your story must be set in the present, told in first person after the fact, from the point of view of someone who visited that place and returned to tell the tale. Supernatural elements are permitted, but not required. Your story's title must be the name of the place that is the subject of your story and the larger region in which it is located; for instance, "Derry, Maine." The horror of your story should lie in the characters discovering the long-lost reasons why that community was abandoned in the first place. Via: Dark Water Syndicate.