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Deadline: February 24th, 2025 Payment: Contributor's copy and $10 Theme: Trans-erotica horror OPEN CALL: WE CAN ALWAYS TELL a trans erotica horror anthology Submission Dates: Dec. 1st 2024 - Feb. 24th 2025 ​ Wordcount: Up to 8k for short fiction, 3 pages for poetry Compensation: $10 + Contributor's Copy ​ Please use Shunn / Standard Manuscript Format when submitting. ​ Please format your subject line as SUBMISSION - - - ​ Submit as .doc or .docX to uncrownedtheseries gmail ​ Please do not inquire about the status of your submission until the reading period has closed.   THE LAUGHING MAN HOUSE IS A PUBLISHER specializing in horror and dark fantasy fiction. Our mission is to curate and showcase spine-chilling stories with unapologetically queer characters and themes. We take pride in offering a platform for talented authors to unleash their creativity and share their unique perspectives with the world. We set down our roots in 2022, and since then we have been on an extraordinary journey, making giant strides in a short span of time. Via: The Laughing Man House.

Deadline: February 25th, 2025 Payment: .02 cents a word, $20 per accepted artwork Theme: Found diary/journal entries from vampire hunters through out history. VAMPIRE HUNTERS: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts Submissions Open January 15 - February 25 on Query Manager Vampire Hunters: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts will be a collection of found diary/journal entries from vampire hunters through out history. There would also be illustrations, charts, anatomy sketches and pieces of articles texts ect. interspersed throughout. https://QueryTracker.net/query/SpecPub To submit to the query manager you need your complete manuscript, formatted in standard Shunn Format, (double spaced, times new roman ect) We want: 1000 - 5000 word Diary/Journal Entry type stories from vampire hunters throughout history. These can be based off real people and characters or entirely made up but the history should be more or less sound. Be mindful of copy protected characters and material. Stories should be formatted like a journal or diary, with a date. There can be one or several telling a story. We would also prefer a line or two (up to a paragraph) of context that would head each story in the anthology as to why this entry is included in the incomplete record. For example: Louis Bernard was well known for his trumpet playing all over western Europe, but few were aware he also hunted vampires until he disappeared in 1897. This was the last entry into his journal. Payment is .02 cents a word. Also looking for original art. Sketches, paintings, photos that would appear in a vampire hunter’s journal, such as charts, weapons, maps, anatomy. $20 per piece. NO AI ART OR STORIES WILL BE ACCEPTED. PLEASE NOTE: We have revised our submission standards. IF SUBMISSIONS DO NOT FOLLOW ALL THE GUIDELINES THEY WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED WITH NO RESPONSE....

Submission Window: January 1st - February 28th, 2025 Payment: $75 usd Theme: Horror stories that deal with science during the scientific revolution and must be historically accurate as well aside from the speculative element(s) Open January 1 to February 28, 2025 General Payment: $75 usd per story via PayPal Word Count: 5,000 (firm) to 10,000 words Submission Window: January 1 to February 28, 2025 Submit To: [email protected] Subject Line: Scientific Revolution Submission: Story Title Submit as: .docx Attachment (no links) Format: Standard Manuscript Format Include: Name or Pen Name in Email Include: Brief Synopsis (3-4 sentences will suffice) in Email Publication Date: 2025 Editor: Coy Hall (He/Him) Additional Story must be set between the years 1500 and 1700 ce Any category of science from the period welcome With setting and details, historical accuracy is vital All subgenres of horror welcome No Poetry Submissions No Reprints Stories that utilize AI in any capacity will be rejected Multiple Submissions Not Permitted Simultaneous Submissions Permitted Receipt of Submissions Will be Confirmed Acceptances and Rejections sent March 2 - April 30 Rights exclusive publication for one year after publication date non-exclusive publication after one year All Copyright belongs to the Author Via: The Scythian Wolf.

Deadline: February 28th, 2025 Payment: Authors get 30% Royalties for first year from date of publication. Afterwards, 30% of all proceeds go to a charity chosen by the Publisher Theme: All mermaids (and their kin), kraken (sea monsters), underwater civilizations, etc. stories are welcome. All genres are accepted. LURED INTO THE DEEP (Rated R) Deadline – February 28th, 2025 Publication – May 2025 Word Count – 3,000-20,000 Theme – All mermaids (and their kin), kraken (sea monsters), underwater civilizations, etc. stories are welcome. All genres are accepted. CHECKLIST Introduction of author A brief history of your writing experience. Author Contact Information / Pen name MUST be included with real name. If real name is same as pen name, state so in email. Author Biography in Third Person in 100-150 words Mandatory minimum of 100. Submission Word Count Word count. Not line count. Submission Formatted in Times New Roman 12 PT Font. One-inch margins. No indentations. No double-spacing. No extra spacing between paragraphs. No chapters. Scene breaks signalled with three ### (see example image below). Only DOC and DOCX accepted. Format video: https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=ftjuYtJWIBI  Format image example at bottom of page. Summary/Query Letter Summarized outline of all major events within the story. All emails should be addressed as “Dear Editor” Email Subject Line must be as follows – “Story Title by  Author Name for (Name of) Anthology” File/Document Name must be as follows – “Story Title by Author Name for (Name of) Anthology” All of the author’s social media links, including website if applicable Author must have one social media account.  Note: Author Name @ Social Media is not a clickable link. Important information Maximum of two submissions per anthology per author. Authors can submit to all anthologies simultaneously. Reprints from Third Party sources accepted IF author currently holds full rights. We will not publish duplicate stories within...

Submission Window: January 1st -February 28th, 2025 Payment:3 cents/word with a minimum payment of $50, $50 for book reviews, $80 for artwork Theme: Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading past issues is the best way to know if your submission is a good fit for NewMyths.com.  We like to balance each quarterly issue between science fiction and fantasy, dark and light, serious and humorous, hard and soft science fiction, and longer and shorter works. Our readers are not fixated on a single style or tone or genre, but prefer a quality sample of the field. Think tapas or dim sum. Maximum length is 10,000 words. Please keep submissions PG or cleaner. Submission Period New Myths considers submissions between January 1-February 28 and June 1-July 31.  Artwork, requests for book reviews, and other correspondence can be submitted at any time.  Book Reviews NewMyths publishes original book reviews. No reprints, please. Reviews should be between 500-1,000 words. We prefer reviews of novels published within the past year but also consider reviews of older works, and reviews of poetry collections, anthologies, and nonfiction works related to fantasy and science fiction. Pay is $50. Send inquiries to Candy at [email protected].   NewMyths publishes several book reviews per year, and we’d like to publish more. Unfortunately, with several thousand submissions per year, our hardworking editors don’t have a lot of time to review novels. If you are an author, agent or publisher, and have a novel or other work related to fantasy and science fiction that you would like to have reviewed, send an inquiry to Scott at [email protected]. If you don’t receive an answer, please assume that we simply don’t have the staff to review it. A solution might be to find someone who can write a review and submit it to us for consideration. Payment Payment is upon publication. NewMyths.com currently...

Submission Window: Feb. 1st – Feb. 28th, 2025 Payment: 5 cents per word for original fiction, 1 cent per word for reprints Theme: New horror related to the sub-genre of Mummies in horror Note: Extended submission window exclusively for BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, Disabled, Neurodiverse, and other underrepresented voices: March 1 – March 15, 2025 Note: Reprints Welcome Modern Mummies Anthology Open call submission window: Feb. 1 – Feb. 28, 2025 Extended submission window exclusively for BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, Disabled, Neurodiverse, and other underrepresented voices: March 1 – March 15, 2025 The Prompt Modern Mummies is a new horror anthology looking to update the “mummy genre.” The anthology’s title has several possible interpretations to help guide submissions. First and foremost, it means stories that take place in the reasonably understood present day. That means a world in which the internet, social media, industrialization, urbanization, etc. exist. Sure, some elements can be fictionalized to make a story work, but we don’t want period pieces that take place in the 1920s or in the far-flung past. “Modern mummies” has other meanings to us too. In the short story “Asleep on the Job” by Scott Parson, mummies were described as time travelers in a sense. Through the preservation of their bodies, these characters awaken to find all that they had known and loved gone, replaced by some modern-day other. While time is certainly a key element of the equation, we also want you to think about space. Mummies all over the world are likely to find themselves in radically different locales than where they were originally buried. With these ideas in mind, we’re curious what you think a mummy might have to say about modern-day living. What might they have to say about their new surroundings and the colonialism that brought them there? How might these...

Deadline: February 28th, 2025 Payment: $10 Theme: Space Opera WAYSTATION is an amateur magazine that seeks to discover, inspire, and publish emerging authors who are enthusiastic about the tradition of "space opera." Space opera is a pulp genre of science fiction, known for grand, epic adventures, interstellar empires, and complex character relationships. Set against a vast cosmic backdrop, space operas explore themes of heroism, warfare and militarism, political intrigue, and occasionally elements of cosmic horror, as seen in the Aliens movies or fictional universes such as Warhammer 40k. Classic authors include C.L. Moore (Northwest of Earth stories) Isaac Asimov (Foundation series), E.E. 'Doc' Smith (Lensman series), Frank Herbert (Dune series), Leigh Brackett (Sword of Rhiannon), and Joe Haldeman (Forever War). These works captivate readers with thrilling journeys through the numberless stars, weaving human drama into the sublime vastness of the cosmos. Published by Spiral Tower Press. Managing Editor: Dr. Jason Ray Carney is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English of Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. He is the co-editor of the academic journal The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies and the area chair of the "Pulp Studies" section of the Popular Culture Association. He serves as the Academic Coordinator for the Robert E. Howard Foundation. He is the author of Weird Tales of Modernity (McFarland Press) and Rakefire and Other Stories (Pulp Hero Press). • Submission deadline: Friday, February 28th, 2025, 11:59p. • Editorial decisions: Friday, April 26th, 2025. • Publication of Issue 2: Saturday, May 10th. Published digitally as a free PDF at the end of the workday. Length: We prefer short, compressed stories that are nevertheless complete and cohesive narratives (1500 to 2500 words). These limits are firm. No more, no less. Stories over or under the limit will...

Submission Window: February 1st - 28th, 2025 Payment: $100 for the chosen story + 50% of subscription revenue Theme: Any genre, short story Mission = Revive the art of the short story, support artists, and produce something wonderful. Payout = Base Pay of $100 for the chosen story + 50% of subscription revenue to be sent by Paypal, Zelle, or check. Wait, you mean if this substack gets thousands of subscribers, the winner would get thousands of dollars? Yes! The New Yorker pays roughly $7,500 per story and I sincerely hope to go way past that. What does the timeline look like? Submit stories by the end of the month, winner to be announced on the 15th. There is ONE story that wins and receives the full payout. Where do I send submissions? [email protected] What are the rules for submitting? 1. No Fees 2. Send in Microsoft Word or Google Doc form 3. Any genre 4. 6- 10,000 words. Yes, just 6 words, like Hemingway's famous 6-word story "For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn." 5. Reprints are ok so long as you still have the rights to distribute. 6. Acknowledge Distribution Rights on this Substack - You can still sell your story elsewhere but we need to be able to save and publish it here. The goal is to create a library for subscribers. 7. Only the winner will be published and rights will only transfer for the winning story. What do I get for subscribing? One beautiful story every month. The complete library. The joy of supporting artists and doing something interesting. What if I can’t pay right now? That’s ok! If you publish a blurb about this site on your website, blog, or social media, I will send you one full story of your choosing. Best of all, it is...

Deadline: February 28th, 2025 Payment: $20 Theme: Science fiction stories that fit snugly within the imagery, concept, and theme of first contact Samak Press is planning our first science fiction anthology Ripples in Space for publication in 2025. The anthology’s title, Ripples in Space, alludes to a central theme of first contact between intelligent species and what happens during these encounters. First contact could involve aliens visiting Earth, Explorers from Earth visiting an alien world, or aliens discovering other aliens. All of these scenarios are open territory meant to be explored in this anthology. What we want For this anthology, Samak Press seeks original science fiction stories that fit snugly within the imagery, concept, and theme of first contact. Tales submitted to Ripples in Space can encompass more than one science fiction subgenre or blend other speculative genres into the narrative, if the central sci-fi thematic element is present in the story. We want suspenseful stories you can’t put down and thoughtful tales that linger with you long after the final page. Original compelling stories will grab our attention. Stale retreads of familiar sci-fi cliches will banish you straight to the slush pile, never to return. Dare to think beyond the usual tropes. Resist the urge to travel down the lazy path and craft a tale that feels like it’s ripped straight from the writer’s room of a Star Trek or Star Wars series or reads like fanfic for a major franchise like Alien or The Terminator. Avoid lazy cliches and tropes like omniscient paternalistic aliens sending Earth a message or space marines battling virtually unstoppable alien monsters. Craft deep, layered characters, paint mind-blowing visuals, and evoke a sense of wonder or dread.  Surprise us with your story. Make us think. Samak Press will automatically reject stories with extreme gore or stories that glorify sexual violence, child abuse, cruelty to animals, or other deviant...

Deadline: February 28th, 2025 Payment: $20 Theme: Unique horror stories where 90% of the story takes place in the kitchen That Old House: The Kitchen ​​The slice of a knife. The heat of the oven.  If you can't handle the heat? Stay out of the kitchen.  Voices is seeking stories for the next installment in the That Old House! This time we take the journey into the horrors of the kitchen!  SUBMISSION WINDOW: Jan 1st- Feb 28th WORDCOUNT: 1k-4k PAYMENT: $20 per accepted story, due before release date (Est December Release) WHAT THEY'RE SEEKING: We are seeking unique stories where 90% of the story takes place in the kitchen. Houses have many stories to tell, but each room can be a different experience. Do not limit yourself to a haunted house! Reach into your imagination and show the horrors that can happen in the kitchen. PLEASE DON'T SEND: Stories that are not horror No erotica or smut. (This includes stories that are centered around sexual intercourse or masturbation. After last time, I feel I need to be specific.) Stories that do not reflect the theme of the call. Your story MUST take place 90% in the kitchen or it will not be considered for acceptance. Nothing racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/etc. Bigoted characters are fine (we’d love to see a few of those get eaten) but we won’t be accepting stories with harmful takeaways. This should go without saying, but we’re going to say it, NO AI GENERATED STORIES. We will blacklist you if you submit a story that you did not write. REPRINTS: SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: We are allowing simultaneous submissions BUT please include a note if it is being considered elsewhere, and please let us know as soon as possible if you have a piece accepted elsewhere or otherwise need to withdraw it...