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No simultaneous submissions.
Multiple submissions are considered.
High on the wanted list are Ghost Stories, Quirk, Narrative Poems, the Sublime, the Numinous, and stories about American Suburbia or set in Los Angeles. Your work doesn’t fit that vision? Send it along anyway, because it could be just crazy enough to work.
Consider the works of Sylvia Plath, Raymond Chandler, Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O’Connor, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, T.S. Eliot, Daphne Du Maurier, J.S. Le Fanu, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lord Dunsany, Saki, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stefani Christova, Washington Irving, E.F. Benson, Evan James Sheldon, O. Henry, Francis Marion Crawford, Ambrose Bierce, Edward Lucas White, W.B. Yeats, and Ralph Adams Cram.
Year-round call for manuscripts of at least 30K words! Your chances are much better with story collections, poetry collections, and narrative poems than with novels, though novellas to 50K are considered.
Launched in 2018 beneath the aegis of legacy publishing enterprise Darc Colours (est. 1986), Twelve House Books has most recently published the story collections CHILDREN & THEIR CAGES by Evan James Sheldon, THE COFFIN WITH THE ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD MYSELF by Stefani Christova, and BETWEEN THE WALLS OF OPPOSING HOUSES by David Kart.
Thinking About Publishing With Twelve House Books?
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* Media Promotions & A Sell Sheet Upon Author’s Request
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Twelve House Books waits with bated breath to see the works of the few-and-far-between writers of the strange and spiritually unruly who prove themselves masters of turn-of-phrase and evocation of the bizarre.
Characters or situations in stories can be realistic, gritty, or dark–but wrongdoing and/or perversion can’t be promoted or encouraged. Transgressive Fiction will not be considered. The use of expletives will also seriously narrow your chances of acceptance.
“What bizarre things does not one find in a great city when one knows how to walk about and how to look! Life swarms with innocent monsters. Oh Lord my God, Thou Creator, Thou Master, Thou who hast made law and liberty, Thou the Sovereign who dost allow, Thou the Judge who dost pardon, Thou who art full of Motives and of Causes, Thou who hast (it may be) placed within my soul the love of horror in order to turn my ear to Thee, like the cure which follows the knife; Oh Lord, have pity, have pity upon the mad men and women that we are! Oh Creator, is it possible that monsters should exist in the eyes of Him alone who knoweth why they exist, how they have made themselves, and how they would have made themselves, and could not?”
~ Charles Baudelaire
