Trembling With Fear 2-9-25

Greetings, children of the dark. I’m loaded full of cold and flu right now so will cut to the chase today with just a few parish notices:
- We are now closed to Valentine’s submissions. Our V-day editor Jane Morecroft will be getting in touch in the coming days – if she hasn’t already – to let you know if you were successful. Make sure you keep an eye out for the Dark Love edition hitting the interwebz on Friday!
- We are slowly, slowly working our way through the regular ol’ short story submissions from both the October and January window; please bear with us but we’re catching up slowly.
- We’re also now proofreading the 2023 anthology, which should hopefully be ready soon. Thanks to the legend that is Steph Ellis for helping pull this together, and some of our fresh new residents of TWF Towers who are divvying up the proofreading to help out.
- Finally, this is your regular reminder that we have an insatiable need for drabbles – like, all the damn time. Get your little darklings of exactly 100 words over to us via the submission form, and make sure they’re a complete story in and of themselves; as much as I love reading extracts from longer works, our drabbles need to work on their own more than anything.
And so onto this week’s edition, where P.A. Cornell (a Nebula finalist, no less!) has a neighbour who takes a bit too much and faces the consequences. That’s followed by the short, sharp speculations of:
- Nico Martinez Nocito’s glimmer in the dark,
- Kelley Tai’s star-crossed lovers, and
- Nissa Harlow’s woodland wanderings.
Over to you, Stuart.
Oh, PS: for those who have been following my creative burnout journey, guess what? I only bloody well finished and submitted an almost-10,000 word short story this week! I know, I can’t believe it either. It’s probably why I’m sick now…
Hi all.
This week, I took some ‘me’ time to work on a novella that I’m hoping to submit before an upcoming deadline. I’ve got two to possibly three that I’m hoping to send to publishers this year. We’ll see if that happens!
For Horror Tree, I did work on reading a LOT of fiction for our Valentine’s Day special and some drabbles. However, I still have a ton of shorts to read and to get our physical copy moving forward again. I also worked a ‘little’ on the website, waiting for a bit more internal feedback before the next set of updates. Hopefully, we’ll get that truly going soon!
Now, for the standards:
- Thank you so much to everyone who has become a Patreon for Horror Tree. We honestly couldn’t make it without you all!
- Be sure to order a copy of Shadowed Realms on Amazon, we’d love for you to check it out and leave a review!
Offhand, if you’ve ordered Trembling With Fear Volume 6, we’d appreciate a review!
For those who are looking to connect with Horror Tree as we’re not really active on Twitter anymore, we’re also in BlueSky and Threads. *I* am also now on BlueSky and Threads.