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Deadline: July 30, 2012 Payment: Exposure only The Horror Zine is seeking submissions for a new anthology book We are a "4theluv" market, exposure only The Horror Zine is seeking original fiction for a new anthology book. We have some big name horror authors aboard, so if you write horror fiction (and you don't have to be a big name) send it to [email protected] before July 30, 2012. We are looking for unusual monsters, ghost stories, or something fresh and new. Seeking fast paced, exciting action and good character development. Must be scary. No dream sequences, no going back and forth between different characters, and no going back and forth between the present and the past. Stay in the now. We are a "4theluv" market, exposure only. Submission Guidelines All submissions selected for The Horror Zine ezine will be made available, if selected, to be published in a yearly anthology of a Horror Zine paperback BOOK. The Horror Zine is a "4theluv" market, for both the ezine and the books. There is no payment. NEW RULE: If you have fiction, poetry, or artwork accepted into The Horror Zine, please allow six months from your acceptance date before you submit anything new to us. We need to give everyone an opportunity. Thanks! THE HORROR ZINE NO LONGER ACCEPTS SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS. ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE ORIGINAL AND UNPUBLISHED ELSEWHRE. All submissions to The Horror Zine are subject to editing, but we work closely with the authors during the editing process. Nothing is published without the author's pre-approval and consent. Remember, even Stephen King has editors. All stories, poetry, and artwork will be available for possible publication into a yearly anthology book. Which contributions get chosen for the anthology book is completely up to, and at the discretion of, the Editor of The...

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 31, 2012 Payment: 2 cents per word, paid within 90 days after publication. Contributor copy of print and ebook (can choose between .epub or .mobi/Kindle versions) What is Erotica? Erotica is literature or art intended to arouse sexual desire. It is not mature content, which is understood to have sexual arousal as its main purpose. Erotica includes a sexual aspect but it is only one part of the larger aesthetic. In other words, writing erotica is not about graphic descriptions of people having sex, it’s about making your reader want to have sex. It’s a tease, a flirt, a seduction … Who is Cthulhu? H.P. Lovecraft wrote smart, surreal, supernatural horror stories in the early 20th century. Cthulhu is one of several fictional creatures created by Lovecraft in the early 20th century. Lovecraft’s stories, and some of the works of his followers, outline what we now call the “Cthulhu Mythos”. Mythos characters include both the monsters and the men who discovered them. Cthulhurotica is the place where sex and madness meet. What are we hoping to get from Volume 2? We want to expand on the first book, without discarding any of it. The stories from Cthulhurotica are bold, sexy, creepy, empowering and frightening. What we’re looking for now is more … We want stories which use more of Lovecraft’s settings and characters. We’ve got Innsmouth and Arkham, but what about the mountains, the Artic, aboard the Emma? We met Nyarlathotep, the Mi Go, and the King in Yellow, but what about Ithaqua, or the Hounds of Tindalos? Tell us about Charles Dexter Ward’s neighbor, or the secretary in Professor Peaslee’s office. What if Richard Upton Pickman painted pinup girls too? There is so much, both in Lovecraft’s work and in the associated Mythos stories by other authors,...

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...

Deadline: August 1st, 2012 Payment: $25/story and 2-Copies of the Anthology "The Inanimates I" Anthology Submission Guidelines All manuscripts should be in Microsoft Word and should be double spaced with an extra space between each paragraph. There should be no indention at the start of each paragraph. Word Count: 3500 to 15,000 words "The Inanimates I" is a Horror/Dark Fantasy/Weird Tales Anthology Each submission should have a main character which is an inanimate object, but has all the feelings, fears, and emotions of a human. Dolls and Dummies have been done to death in stories like these and have 0% chance at success, in this anthology. To keep variety in the flow of the anthology, only a small percentage of stories told from 1st Person view point will be accepted. Creepy, Terrifying, and Unique tales have the best chance at acceptance. Our submission period for the anthology is open from April 1st, 2012 to August 1st, 2012. Send to: [email protected] with "The Inanimates Submission" in the subject box.

Deadline: August 1, 2012 Payment: 1/4 penny for each word Trinity Gateways is now taking submissions for our first anthology! We are currently looking for short stories for the horror anthology titled Shadows of the Mind, which will be published as an e-book with the option to print. Please read through requirements and guidelines thoroughly prior to submission. Payment will be 1/4 penny for each word. Story Requirements It must be of the horror genre; we are most interested in stories that will disturb the reader. Graphic language/scenes are okay as long as integral to the story; No gratuitous sex scenes or shock-effect vulgarity. Nothing “X” rated. It must be edited prior to submission Minimum Word Count: 1,000 Maximum Word Count: 6,000 Final Submission Deadline: August 1, 2012, or until Submissions are Closed Trinity Gateways Formatting Guidelines Document file type must be either Miscrosoft Word (1997-2003, 2007, or 2010) or Open Source; no other file type will be accepted Font Type: Times New Roman, Courier, or Arial Font Size: 12 pt All margins must be set to one inch (1″) Entire document must be double-spaced Text must be Left Justified (aligned to the left) Do not indent paragraphs with tabs or spaces No extra spaces (hard returns) between paragraphs Use two (2) spaces between sentences rather than one (1) Section breaks are to be marked with centere *** Title page must be included in the story file submitted, and must feature:No headers, footers, or page numbers Contact information (real name & valid e-mail address at minimum) in the top right hand corner Word count listed in the top left hand corner Story title centered midway down the page The word “by” one (1) line (double-spaced) below the title The author’s name or by-line (pen name) one (1) line (double-spaced) below...

Deadline: August 1st 2012 Payment: 1 cent a word plus a contributors copy You were warned…but you just didn’t listen! So after the horrific success of D.O.A., we have decided to please the masses by releasing a second volume. Volume II will be a more disturbing anthology (if that’s even possible), unsuitable for the easily offended, disgusted, or those prone to vomiting. We want stories, 750 – 5,000 words, that push the limits. The stranger and gorier the better. If you read the first installment, than you know that no subject is too taboo. However, we’re looking for you to exploit a lesser know taboo. Keep in mind that we are not simply looking for torture or scenes of gratuitous violence lacking a point or direction. Blood and guts only work if there is a great story and creative twists to back it up. Imagine that the band Cannibal Corpse got together with Richard Matheson and penned a story. The result would be D.O.A. Think Edward Lee, think Bizarro, think…well, you get the picture. So if you ever had a story idea that you felt was too extreme or offensive for a sane publisher, send it our way. We want your worst! Accepted stories will be paid a rate of 1 cent a word plus a contributors copy. Stories will be accepted from May 1, 2012 until August 1, 2012. We will not make final selections until the end of the submission period. Please do not query about the status of your submission until September 1, 2012. Send submissions to [email protected]. Subject should read: “D.O.A. II: story title/author last name”

Deadline: Aug. 1, 2012 Payment: Payment: Stories that are 3,999 words and under will be for exposure only. Stories that are 4,000 words and above will receive one paperback contributor copy as payment. Glimpses of Insanity Edited By Eloise J. Knapp Deadline: Aug. 1, 2012 Target Release Date: Oct. 3, 2012 How to Submit: Send submissions to [email protected] with “Glimpses of Insanity” (story title and author name)” in subject line. Please attach a WORD document file containing your story. Please use Times New Roman, size 10 font and please DO NOT double space or use headers or page counts. Page one of the file must contain your contact information (title of your disorder, name, mailing address, E-mail and word count) If any of these items are missing from your document, I will reject right away. If this information is there, it makes it easier for me to contact you. What we are looking for: We know about schizophrenia and Stockholm syndrome, but what about the truly odd and morbidly bizarre psychological disorders? What about Apotemnophiliaor Capgras Delusion? We are looking for stories with some amount of medical accuracy and, above all, dark exploration of these strange mental phenomenon. Stories should feature only one disorder and be of a horror/thriller nature.These stories will require basic research of a bizarre mental disorder and a plot, but beyond that let your imagination take you where it desires. Unacceptable themes: schizophrenia, Stockholm syndrome, pedophilia, necrophilia, multiple personality disorder, depression, bi-polar disorder. Payment: Stories that are 3,999 words and under will be for exposure only. Stories that are 4,000 words and above will receive one paperback contributor copy as payment. What rights we ask for: Exclusive Anthology Rights and Electronic Media Rights for publication in the US English language anywhere in the world. Exclusive rights...

Deadline: August 12th 2012 Payment: Charity Anthology - Exposure Only ‘Fear’ will be published, through us, in time for Halloween 2012. We’re looking for around twenty full, original and previously unpublished stories of terror, each around 4000 words in length. We won’t accept anything with fewer than 1500 words. If you think your story has what it takes, submit it to us at [email protected] with the words, HALLOWEEN ANTHOLOGY, in the subject line. Stories should be generally suitable for a broad adult audience. Scary, but not too graphic. Author and Publisher royalties will go completely to charity and, if accepted, your story will be published, in print and in e-format, as a part of the Anthology, across Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and the iTunes BookStore from October 2012. The two charities benefiting are the independent humanitarian medical aid organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), and the anti child poverty, fostering, and anti child exploitation charity, Barnardo’s. We can only accept submissions up until midnight PST on Sunday 12th August 2012. All authors will be contacted throughout August and September.

Deadline: August 14th, 2012 Payment: Contributor's Copy The Pitch: Almost two hundred thousand years ago, HomoSapiens fought a war against the HomoHelmei for the coastal passages out of Africa. Although modern man won, the deadly virus that had infected the HomoHelmei infected the early migrants. The disease lay dormant in their DNA until the year 2012. Every descendant of those migrants, from India to China to the United States has been infected. All will die. The only survivors are the children of the Africans who did not migrate, whose DNA did not contain the virus. There is no test, no method of determining who will live and who will die to rise again as the living dead. If you're dark skinned, there is no hope. If not, you have 24 hours to live. The Truth: There are tons of zombie stories out there. Most of them create a lame back story and dive right into the killing and slaughter. I decided if I was going to do my own version, it had to be done differently. Using the retroviruses and genetic differences between the racial groups on Earth, I had a basis for an idea. It is important to tell stories that have cultural relevance, that touch upon issues of the day and explore themes we may not be comfortable talking about. Such as race issues. The comic industry has a lack of characters of color. It is primarily a white industry run by white people creating books about white characters. At the very least I wanted to create a property with an all black cast. One that didn't have anything to do with sports or crime. THE ANTHOLOGY: As a way to promote the book I will be publishing a novel anthology of short stories. Any interested writers should...

Dedline: August 15th 2012 Payment: shared royalties plus one eBook and one print contributor’s copy. Once in a while a random idea strikes me at an inopportune moment, like just before the movie begins at the theatre. That’s what happened with this one. Luckily, I remembered it and decided to do an anthology. This one is a little different than the ones we’ve done before, as I’m looking for stories with a strong sci-fi theme mixed with horror. The premise is a future society that dehumanizes its population. What if, in order to receive welfare (Medicaid, food stamps, the dole—for those of you across the Atlantic) you had to be put on a national donor’s registry? And what if someone who wasn’t on welfare needed an organ and you were the only match? Yes, imagine a government that makes citizens pay for their aid in one way or another. And that’s what I’m looking for—stories set in a not so distant future gone horribly wrong. I already have a few stories for the anthology, one by the incomparable Gene O’Neill. Length should be 3000 to 8000 words. If the story is longer, please query. If you have any questions, please feel free to query also. Deadline is August 15th and the proposed date of publication is November 10th, conveniently planned to coincide with the inevitable dissatisfaction of the US presidential election. (I mean one side’s always disgruntled, right?) So reread Orwell’s 1984 and Bradbury’s 451 Fahrenheit and then attempt to top them. Send your submissions to [email protected]. Please refer to our submission guidelines for proper formatting. Subs which are not properly formatted or do not include a cover letter will be returned unread.

Deadline: August 20th 2012 Payment: Payment: One contributor copy. All profit from this anthology will be donated to Downs Syndrome charities. Copies will be available for cost as long as you donate profit received to a Downs Syndrome charity organization of your choice. Chiral Mad is an anthology of psychological horror tentatively scheduled for publication by Written Backwards in November of 2012. It will contain twenty or more short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. Submissions will be open to the public starting May 16th with a listing appearing on duotrope.com soon. To submit a story for consideration, please see the guidelines below. Cover artwork in progress. Click the image for higher resolution. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Twenty highly-regarded peers were selected for the initial invitation into this anthology, along with the twenty whose work appeared in Pellucid Lunacy. As stories are accepted, author names will appear on the “OFFICIAL LINE-UP” section on the top right of this page. Invited authors with submissions in the works will appear in the “UNOFFICIAL” section below that. Open submissions for Chiral Mad commence May 16th and will stay open until August 20th, or until filled. What’s acceptable? Fiction that disturbs the nonlinear fabric(s) of reality. Mindbenders in the range of 1000 to 5,000 words that could not only be classified as horror, but as psychological horror with chirality in mind. This anthology suits stories that push the limits of the human condition. The keyword being ‘human.’ Strong character development is a must, and all stories must have some element of chirality, whether it’s in character reflection, physical and/or mental symmetry, structure, or any other way you can manage. Look at your left hand; look at your right hand; now put them together… that’s chirality. Share something important with the rest of...

Deadline: August 20, 2012 Payment: An eBook copy will be sent to all contributors and up to 5 paperback copies per author will be available to purchase at cost. 50% of the royalties will be distributed between all contributors. We’ve all come across them. The warnings told by a friend of a friend - be careful! Some ghastly end met while undertaking a dare, don’t go in there, that’s the Devil’s Gate! Or perhaps your mind leaps to the cryptofiction realm - Bigfoot, the Chupacabra, or monstrous alligators roaming the sewers under New York City! Wherever your mind takes you, we want to come along for the ride. Ensure your story is dark and edgy, preferably full of horror - we want the reader to be too scared to step off the beaten path and wander into realms unknown. All urban legends are open for interpretation; just be sure to add the requisite elements of horror. Deadline for Submissions: August 20, 2012 Word count minimum: 4000 words - nothing less will be considered. Submission guidelines: Deadline for submissions - Monday, August 20, 2012. 4000 - 10,000 words. Please submit your manuscript as a *.doc or *.docx file in Verdana; 12 point font; single spacing and standard formatting. Graphic gore must be kept to a minimum unless it is integral to the story; absolutely no incestuous or sexual abuse storylines will be considered. Only stories previously unpublished may be submitted. Upon acceptance into the anthology, you agree that Sirens Call Publications holds exclusive publishing rights for twelve (12) months from the date of publication; after that date has passed, all intellectual property rights revert to the author with the proviso that Sirens Call Publications retains distribution rights in the format of the contracted anthology. An eBook copy will be sent to...

Deadline: August 30th 2012 Payment: 2 Contributor's copies KISS ME AT MIDNIGHT – COLLECTION A clean slate. A fresh start. A chance to throw out the old and begin anew. There’s nothing as revitalizing as the start of a new year, and what better way to begin than with a kiss. Less Than Three Press is seeking stories for a collection revolving around the theme of a new year, a new start, a propitious beginning. THE DETAILS: Deadline is AUGUST 30TH, 2012 11:59 EST (GMT -5) (give or take, we won’t kill you for sending it off the following morning) Ideally stories should be 5,000-10,000 words in length, but anything a little longer or shorter is acceptable. Stories must be m/m or f/f (threesomes etc are acceptable, but all parties must be the same gender). Stories should have a happy end—either HEA or HFN is acceptable. Any genre is acceptable: contemporary, fantasy, steampunk, sci-fi, horror, mystery, western, etc. We adore variety. All usual LT3 submission guidelines apply. This collection is centered around the theme of a new year and all the potential that comes with it. All stories must have a strong tie to this theme. We are looking for creative stories that bring in this theme, not simply dozens of stories about a New Year’s Eve party (though if you can do that creatively, we welcome it gladly). Kiss Me at Midnight is a collection of ebooks, meaning each story will be sold as an individual ebook, and readers will also have the option to purchase “bundles” or the entire collection for a reduced rate. Standard ebook royalty rates will apply. Stories should be complete before submitting, and as edited as possible. They can be submitted in any format (doc, docx, rtf, odt, etc), preferably single spaced with a...

Deadline: August 31, 2012 Payment: Exposure Only SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 31, 2012 WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: Flash fiction covering all genres. This is a collection of stories to be enjoyed by everyone, please keep excessive cussing and sex out unless integral to your character. WHAT WE ARE NOT LOOKING FOR: Slash and hack, blood and gore for their own sake. Graphic rape, torture, child abuse, and animal torture have their place, but not here. We prefer stories written in the third person—will consider first person if you knock our socks off. No Reprints. Looking for short stories in the 500- 1,500 word range. Payment exposure. This is a 4 The Luv anthology.. Submissions will be accepted August 31, 2012 Tentative Release Date: December 2012 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. Attach your submission in .rtf format. Submissions pasted in the body of email will be rejected, unread.

Deadline: August 31st 2012 Payment: $10 Our 2012 anthology is a return to the classic ghost story... with a twist! We are looking for gay-themed ghost stories in the Gothic tradition. Avoid the ghost and Mr. Muir thing here and get creative! Requirements: 1000-3000 words RTF format Double-space/ Times New Roman There must some gay element to the story (and a ghost!) We do not want: excessive gore/ violence/ splatter rape/ torture/ abuse Reprints No simultaneous submissions We're looking for stories in the Poe, James, Le Fanu, Polidori vein here! Contact: [email protected] Payment: $10 Deadline: 31 August for an October publication

Deadline: August 31st 2012 Payment: $10 We are currently seeking submissions for our 2012 anthology! Our 2012 anthology is a return to the classic ghost story... with a twist! We are looking for gay-themed ghost stories in the Gothic tradition. Avoid the ghost and Mr. Muir thing here and get creative! Requirements: 1000-3000 words RTF format Double-space/ Times New Roman There must some gay element to the story (and a ghost!) We do not want: excessive gore/ violence/ splatter rape/ torture/ abuse Reprints No simultaneous submissions We're looking for stories in the Poe, James, Le Fanu, Polidori vein here! Contact: [email protected] Payment: $10 Deadline: 31 August for an October publication Ebook and paperback format

Deadline: August 31, 2012 Payment: We offer $30 and one contributor’s copy of the book as payment upon acceptance. An additional royalty will be paid out for every copy of the book (press or digital) sold after the first 500. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES What We Want DALI-ANCES: The Salvador Dali Anthology features around ten to fifteen short fiction stories dealing with Salvador Dali and his artworks. We are looking for stories inspired by or involving the artist, his art, or his symbolisms that categorize him as one of the 20th century’s most influential artists. We welcome all subgenres and forms of fantastic fiction, from horror and science fiction, steampunk and bizarro, fantasy and magic realism. We are looking for short stories which showcase Dali or his artwork as a central theme. Deadline for submissions is August 31, 2012. No entries will be accepted beyond this deadline. What We Don’t Want We will not accept stories which have the theme obviously shoehorned in after the fact. We do not want generic surrealism-based stories. We are not looking for poetry. And we don’t want an extreme amount of vulgarity or sexual perversion for its own sake, unless it fits the theme and mood of the anthology, especially considering the source material. Manuscript Format We are looking for short fiction between 1500-7500 words, though longer fiction will still be considered. All submissions should be in DOC, RTF, or TXT format in standard double-spaced manuscript format. Multiple Submissions and Reprints We accept up to two (2) multiple submissions for review. Each one must be sent via its own separate email. Reprints are permissable, as long as prior publication is mentioned and described in the cover letter. Pay Rate We offer $30 and one contributor’s copy of the book as payment upon acceptance. An additional royalty...

Deadline: August 31, 2012 Payment: $0.05/word and royalty split Edited by E.S. Magill, Angel Leigh McCoy, and Chris Marrs (see bios, below) Deep Cuts: (1) songs on an album that do not get commercial air time. (2) great songs that get overshadowed by an album’s hits. Like the “deep cuts” on an album, there’s good stuff out there, stuff worth digging up and having another go at. In honor of Women in Horror Month, we invite you to tell us about a deep cut written by a woman writer. We want to give horror lovers (male and female alike) the opportunity to recommend powerhouse tales written by women, those bloody stylings and chainsaw rhythms that have lain hidden like deadly gems among other great works. Recommend a woman writer’s horror story that you believe may have been overlooked by the general public, along with your own submission. Choose well, because if we publish your story, we’ll also publish your recommendation. Join us as we knock the needle over a few grooves to find and recommend those deep cuts cranked up to 11 by women horror writers. Warning: Cuts May Be Deeper Than They Appear Submission Guidelines This will be a horror anthology. We do not want splatterpunk, urban fantasy, or supernatural romance. We will choose stories that do or don’t contain supernatural elements, but all the stories we choose will obviously have been written with the intent to make the reader uneasy with the lights off. Anyone can submit, man or woman, so long as they’re over 18. In addition to the short story submission, each submitter is asked to write up to 150 words honoring a short story by a female horror writer, telling why the story means so much to them and where it was published. This short...

Deadline: August 31, 2012 Payment: Payment $25 advance paid uponpublication with quarterly payments after advance has been met. Welcome to the second anthology from THE HORROR SOCIETY. Since this is an election year I thought that it might be interesting to publish a horror anthology about politicians. Throughout history many of our political figures have suffered painful events or tragic deaths. What we are looking for is stories that twist this event - I.e. What if the doctors that treated George Washington were vampires, or the reason it took so long to bury Abraham Lincoln was because he kept wandering off. Don’t change history but feel free to play it. Have fun while researching your politician. You will need to make your selection and contact May/December before you start writing. The reason for this is that you will need to reserve your choice to avoid multiple submissions on the President or the politician. We are looking for a wide assortment of figures for this publication. There will be No political opinions allowed! We don’t care what political affiliation you are. This is about the horror not politics. 4000-10,000 words. -No less, and no more-No living politicians will be allowed. Message Denise Brown with selection, we will make a daily post (and keep itupdated) of which have been selected to avoid duplication. Please email: [email protected] Payment $25 advance paid uponpublication with quarterly payments after advance has been met. Times New Roman. Size 12 font. Single Space. First line indent by .3; All stories will be stripped of authorinfo and forwarded blind to editor who will score each story. Top (seeking atotal word count of 70,000 words) will be accepted. All submissions are due August 31, 2012

Deadline: August 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. The Dark Side of the Womb: From Their Cradle to Your Grave is a horror anthology themed around those scariest of monsters – children. WHAT WE WANT Terrifying toddlers and chill-inducing children; Satanic sons and demonic daughters; bloodthirsty babies and…well, you get the idea. We want tales of terror that revolve around young kids, preferably under the age of ten. The children can be innocent victims, or monstrous villains or some splendid blending of the two, but they must be the focal point. WHAT WE DON’T WANT Two words – sexual abuse. We don’t expect the children in your stories to live in a world of sunshine and lollipops – far from it – but this is not a theme we want to explore in this anthology. It can be alluded to, suggested, even mentioned – but once it becomes the focus of the story, out it goes. Sexual abuse of a child is one of the most abhorrent things in the world and for that very reason it’s a strict no-no. Let them be torn apart by zombies, sacrificed to one of the Great Old Ones or destroy whole cities every time they fill their nappy (any parents will know what we mean by that last one) – we...

Deadline: August 31st, 2012 Payment: Exposure Only Theme: “Horror: Dark & Dreadful” Media: Electronic/Digital Publication Date: September 2012 Deadline: August 31, 2012 “Bring on the strange, the twisted, and the bizarre. We are looking for stories and poetry that will make us want to sleep with the lights on. Psychological thrillers, bedtime stories for very bad children, and unusually likable anti-heroes are sure to please. Pretty vampires need not apply. Give us the grim, the dark, and the seriously creepy....just scare us already!” Haunted Water Press is currently seeking works of prose, creative nonfiction and poetry for the Fall 2012 issue of our quarterly literary journal, From the Depths. We are looking for short stories of 3500 words or less, flash fiction of any length, creative nonfiction of 1500 words or less, and poetry. Selected works may also appear as part of our online literary content. Submissions will be accepted through our ONLINE SUBMISSIONS MANAGER. We accept multiple submissions but request that you have no more than four submissions pending. Please no simultaneous submissions. Your four submissions may be in any combination of prose, creative nonfiction or poetry. If you use Duotrope, we request that you report each individual work submitted. Authors receive exposure only, no monetary payment. Please review our Submission Guidelines prior to submitting for details on formatting your submission.

Deadline: August 31, 2012 Payment: Unknown Editor’s Alert: Storyworlds Magazine currently seeks submissions for the first three issues of the magazine. Please get your submissions in well before August 31, 2012 to be considered for our debut issues. Thanks! Storyworlds Magazine Submission Guidelines: Fiction Here are the Storyworlds Magazine submission guidelines for fiction: Fiction that… Is 3,000 to 5,000 words. Is set in a storyworld created by the author (and is creator-owned) that is established in publicly available works by the author or others. Has balanced attention to character, plot, setting and theme. Stands alone. Doesn’t require foreknowledge of the characters or storyworld. Creates a lingering emotional response… regardless of the emotion triggered. By an author who… Has a demonstrable, substantial social media audience. Actively and personally engages with that audience. Has an established website dedicated to their works, including the storyworld in question. Is committed to marketing their work with direct-to-fan communication. It’s important to note that there’s no mention of genre in the above list. Storyworlds Magazine doesn’t have much use for genre classification, save for its arguable value in helping readers find things they may be predisposed to enjoy. Of course, it can cut both ways: some people use genre to avoid things they may never know if they like or not, and that’s sad. At Storyworlds Magazine, we don’t care about genre. We care about story. On Serials: Storyworlds Magazine will consider serials in some circumstances. Please query first. Rights We License: Fiction Storyworlds Magazine requires first exclusive worldwide English language print and electronic rights for twelve months beginning with publication month, perpetual non-exclusive rights after that twelve months, and non-exclusive anthology rights. Anthology inclusion and compensation falls under its own agreement. We are not soliciting reprints at this time. Removing Works Published In Storyworlds Magazine...

Deadline: August 31st, 2012 Payment: All contributors will receive one comp copy, and one story each issue will be selected as the editor's favourite, receiving payment at 4p/word (capped at £200). Payment to non-UK residents is by PayPal ONLY. We cannot send foreign bankers drafts or send foreign currency. As the World CyberBank finally seizes the last remaining free state in its neon grip, the world has become a peculiar place. The tramp of a million tiny feet echoes in the night as the internet pixies are put to work – polishing jpegs, stamping emails, churning bit-rate butter, and taking the frame-rates for a walk. Government spybots police the streets as currency finally gains self-awareness; money is now literally in control. Materialism is the new Art, and dollar-green is the only colour in this season. And just what is the Association for Fetishism doing with all those newly sentient garden gnomes? To celebrate our glorious slide back into this double dip recession, Polluto is selling sex, money and slave-labour. Grab your wallet and head on over! Need inspiration? Here are some ideas: Domination, Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism and Dystopia. Ancient Empires and Evil Empires. Consumerism, materialism, money, power and corruption. The All-mighty Dollar. Anything Cyberpunk. Taxes, Recession and Depression – but it doesn’t have to be depressing! Slaves – human, alien, golem, fantastical, robot, cyber or other. Slaves of the past or slaves of the future. Sex, sexuality, orgies, voyeurism, raves and parties. The oldest profession in the world. The digital age. The rich-poor divide, developing countries, exploitation, child labour. Governments and their Machiavellian schemes. Anything else that you think fits the theme! This theme does not necessarily require a sci-fi, fantasy, spec fic, or bizzaro response, though, of course, it never hurts! We prefer stories with a surreal, bizarre, or delightfully...

Deadline: August 31st 2012 Payment: Contest styled: EDITOR'S CHOICE: Best of Anthology--Winning story will be featured as the anthology's opening tale, and the author will be awarded $50.00 and one paperback copy of PSYCHO CIRCUS 1st Place: $25.00 2nd Place: $15.00 3rd Place: $10.00 Welcome to the most terrifying show on earth! Step into the Big Top if you dare and submit to Ephemera Publishing's new anthology, PSYCHO CIRCUS. We are seeking chilling tales of dark circus horror--think killer clowns, twisted lion tamers, raving mad ring masters. No matter what you choose to create, be sure your story takes place in a circus atmosphere. Dark, light, mysterious, psychological, bizarre, and twisted works are welcome as long as they contain strong elements of horror. We are looking for strong, entertaining stories with strong, interesting plots and great character development. Using gore and violence as a mere shock factor is a no-no; be sure these elements are relevant to your story's subject matter. Supernatural tales MAY be considered as long as they are unique and contain a PSYCHO CIRCUS theme. No fantasy, erotica, or sci-fi. This is an OPEN call for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit; we look forward to receiving submissions from both new and established writers. PSYCHO CIRCUS will be available in both quality paperback and digital formats. The anthology will be edited by Eva Glynn Stephens, and will be available for purchase through various, well known venues. PSYCHO CIRCUS will feature a beautifully designed full color cover, featuring custom art work. This is a CONTEST anthology. Accepted works will be judged and prizes will be awarded as follows: EDITOR'S CHOICE: Best of Anthology--Winning story will be featured as the anthology's opening tale, and the author will be awarded $50.00 and one paperback copy of PSYCHO CIRCUS 1st Place:...