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Word count: 2000 - 7,000 words (query for longer pieces). Deadline: Until full. Payment: One contributor's copy (paperback). To be published Spring 2025. No wacky fonts please. Double or 1.5 spacing. Make it readable. Submit as a Word or RTF file to darklanebooks@gmail.com with the header: Anthology Submission, (TITLE), (YOUR SURNAME).
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We publish speculative fiction: horror, dark scifi and fantasy, and more. If it’s dark and speculative, we’d love to read it. The piece needs to be a complete story in and of itself, which means no extracts. Make sure your story – even your drabbles – have a coherent and strong beginning, middle and end, and a narrative that is well-paced. Flash/sh...
No erotica, pornography or graphic sexNo rapeNo homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, misandry, or racismNo killing or abuse of kids or petsWe host several themed submission calls every year, and also have some regular themed series opportunities outside of the regular ongoing short story call.
Deadline for drabbles, serials, and unholy trinities is ongoing. Short story submissions are open in the following periods: 1. Winter: 1-15 January 2. Spring: 1-15 April 3. Summer: 1-15 July 4. Fall: 1-15 October Submissions for special editions are: 1. Valentine’s: 1 December – 31 January 2. Summer holiday special: 1 April – 31 July 3. Halloween: ...
We ask for non-exclusive rights on these pieces so that we can: 1. Keep them online indefinitely 2. Publish them in a print anthology to help fund the site With reader support through our KoFiand Patreonaccounts, Trembling With Fear has become a token paying market. If you’re not donating your story to help the site grow, we pay $5 per story by the...
We’ve been doing this long enough to notice some frequent mistakes made in submissions. So before you hit the submit button, make sure you’ve done the following: 1. Run the story through spell check 2. Make sure the formatting is logical and tidy 3. Consider getting someone else to read it for you before submitting – you’d be surprised what fresh e...
We will send an email to confirm we’ve received your submission, but please bear with us after that. We are a small team, but we do try to respond to all submissions within three weeks.
Coffin Bell is an online journal for dark literature. Publishing quarterly, Coffin Bell reads submissions year-round. If your submission misses the deadline for one (unthemed) issue, it will automatically be considered for the next. GENRES: flash fiction, short story, creative nonfiction, poetry, essay, short criticism, art.
- The Tell-Tale Heart'' by Edgar Allan Poe. I’ve said before and I’ll say again: any list of mine that can open with Poe will open with Poe. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a classic for a reason.
- The Semplica-Girl Diaries'' by George Saunders. This is a story I like to point to when people say literary fiction doesn’t “do” horror. Sure they do; they just rarely call it that.
- The Colour out of Space'' by H. P. Lovecraft. True confession: I’m not a huge Lovecraft fan. I appreciate him, and some of his stories I really like, but I’m just not quite on the same train other fans seem to be on.
- Ortolan'' by Dane Huckelbridge. “Ortolan” is one of my favorite stories in recent years. I read it because it appeared on the Bram Stoker Award preliminary ballot a couple years back, and, frankly, I think it should’ve won.
Co-authored Submissions : Allowed. Publication : Paperback, hard cover, and digital, plus 3 will be chosen for our online magazine. Author compensation : $10 USD (plus 1 paperback copy for stories over 4,000 words) per story accepted. Submit to : short-stories@blackharepress.com.
Dec 27, 2017 · I feel pain for money. Other people’s pain. Physical, emotional, you name it. Pain is an illusion, I know, and so is time, I know, I know. I know. The shift manager never stops reminding us. Doesn’t help, actually. Doesn’t help when you are on your third broken leg of the day.”. “ The School ,” Donald Barthelme.
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