Submission Window: August 1st – 31st, 2025
Payment: An advance of $500 to $2000, royalties, and copies.
Themes: Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Dark Age Press is a small, independent publisher. We presently focus on Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Literary Fiction.
Our mission: to support local, independent bookstores and pop-up bookstores, and, as such, we only sell to those bookstores.
Deadline: July 31st, 2025
Payment: $25 and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Horrifying Wild West Stories
It’s time to ride into the Wild West with a western horror anthology!
D.L. Winchester and C.M. Saunders will headline this anthology, but we’re rounding up more stories for our readers to enjoy! From gunfights on Main Street to train robbers and cattle rustlers, we want your horrific tales from the old West!
Theme: Horror stories of all subgenres that take place in the Old West.
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Title: A Burnt Offering
Author: Mark T. Bates
Genre: Horror
Publisher: The Dark Corner
Publication date: June, 2025
Synopsis: Fresh from the horrors of World War II and battling his own internal demons, David, a young veteran, arrives at a seemingly quaint London guesthouse run by the enigmatic Mrs. Van Der Hagen. Seeking solace and a new beginning, he hopes to reconnect with a friend who supposedly stayed there before him.
However, from the moment David steps through the door, an unsettling atmosphere pervades the house. Strange occurrences, Mrs. Van Der Hagen’s peculiar mannerisms, and a cryptic encounter with another long-term resident, Colonel Joseph Shaw, begin to chip away at David’s fragile composure. As he tries to piece together the truth about his friend’s whereabouts and the guesthouse’s unsettling history, David finds himself increasingly trapped in a nightmare that blurs the lines between his wartime trauma and a terrifying reality.
The City of New Orleans is believed to be the most haunted city in the entire country. And if you know anything about The Big Easy, that should come as no surprise. With legends of Voodoo queens practicing dark magic, generations of witches casting spells, and even talk of vampires lurking in the shadows, there are hardly any places in NOLA that aren’t considered haunted.
Staying at a haunted hotel can be a dream, or a nightmare, come true, depending on how you look at it. But in a town so full of mystery and mystique, which hotel in New Orleans is considered the most haunted of them all?
Deadline: August 15th, 2025
Payment: 0.08 USD/word or $60 for poems.
Theme: Stories that belong in the fantasy or science fiction genre, have a clear aromantic MC, & centers around a non-romantic relationship
For Common Bonds 2, we are particularly interested in stories featuring these elements:
– Stories bold in their aromanticism and unafraid to explore its many facets
– Horror with strong SFF elements/settings
– Allosexual aromantic characters, and/or the exploration of platonic fuck buddies and other forms of non-romantic sexual partners
– Worldbuilding that decentres romantic pairings as the highest form of attachment or a central structural unit of a society, especially inspired by authentic cultural and historical norms
Deadline: July 21st, 2025
Payment: $1,000
Theme: Speculative Fiction, Soilpunk
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Title: Urban Legends: Three New Tales of Terror (Dark Tide Horror Novellas)
Authors: Nick Roberts, Dan Franklin, Leigh Kenny
Genre: Horror
Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing
Publication date: 6th May, 2025
Synopsis: Enter the world of terrifying urban legends where the lines between myth and reality blur into a nightmare of unexplainable horrors. In this spine-chilling volume, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and familiar fears are taken to unimaginable heights.
Features a foreword by Adam Cesare, the author of Clown in a Cornfield (now a feature film).
“Nesting” by Dan Franklin, “Knock on Wood” by Leigh Kenny, “Poltergeist Password” by Nick Roberts
Dark Tide 20 takes you on a terrifying journey through some of the most unsettling myths and folklore, where terror lurks in the shadows and urban legends come alive in the most horrific ways. Prepare for twists, fear, and truths you may not want to know.
Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing—Where Stories Come Alive!
Submission Window: July 1st – 15th, 2025
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Horror novels, novellas, short story collections
Submissions are open from July 1st to July 15th, 2025. Submissions outside this window will be deleted unread.
We want horror in all its forms—from literary to weird, Gothic to psychological, and (almost) everything in between. We’re looking for amazing stories from amazing authors, regardless of race, gender, religion—if you’ve got something good, we want it. (Please do not submit YA, romance, erotica, or religious fiction; we do not deal in those genres. Also note that anything involving vampires, werewolves, zombies, or serial killers will be a hard sell, currently.) Need a firm idea of what we’re looking for? Check out the JournalStone website.
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