Posts Tagged ‘horror markets’

Mixer Publishing

“Mixer Horror likes stories that play with the typical conventions and motifs of horror, while still using the power of the genre to scare the reader in ways that interrogate our knowledge of ourselves and the social constructions that supposedly keep us safe. Mixer Horror, in general, is not big on supernatural horror–please don’t send [...]

One Buck Horror

“One Buck Horror is looking for the best in horror fiction from established and up-and-coming writers. We pay professional rates for short stories of 3000 words or less. Selected stories will appear in eBook releases to be sold through Amazon.com, Google Books, and other online outlets. We are also accepting submissions for cover art to [...]

Pulp Carnivale

“We are currently looking for stories in the following genres: fantasy gangster detective/mystery science fiction adventure/exotic travels westerns romance horror/occult Pulp Carnivale is publishing 3 types of short story: Flash Fiction: Stories of 1,000 words or less, published daily as a “News Flash”. Short Story: Stories of differing longer lengths, around 5,000 words or less. [...]

Thaumatrope

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“Guidelines: Tell us a Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror story in under 140 characters. Other than that, we’re just looking for good stories. Rates: We pay $1.20 per submission entry—which equates to a minimum payment of approximately 5¢/word (considering a “word” to be 6 characters). While we technically pay professional rates for fiction we DO [...]

The Red Penny Papers

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“We’re open to submissions from January 15-February 28, 2011. The Red Penny Papers publishes webfiction that celebrates the spirit of the penny dreadful, the sensationalist and gothic novel, and their more modern successor, the pulp magazine– the catch is that it must have a dark speculative bent. We want stories of the underbelly: opium dens [...]

Horror Garage

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“HORROR GARAGE combines the best in original dark fiction with the finest in horrific rock n’ roll. Think HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, PSYCHOMANIA, and DEATH RACE 2000: B-movie babes, screamin’ skulls, bug-eyed creeps, and gallons of blood. 1. DO NOT submit to HORROR GARAGE (or any similar venue) without being completely familiar with it. Take [...]

Mammoth Book of Horror now accepting reprints!

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“Editor Stephen Jones is considering stories and novellas first published between January 2010 and December 2010 for the 22nd annual edition of the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror series, to be published by Robinson in the UK and Running Press in the US in 2011. Jones says, “Authors, do not assume that I have [...]

The Horror of Self-Critique pt 2

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(Or, Why don’t we just put the Writer’s Market down for a bit and relax?) I collect old college Literature textbooks. It’s a wretched habit, because it means there’s now 70 copies of Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” in my house—but, then again, none of my habits are particularly healthy. Still, this week, I stumbled [...]

The Horror of Self-Critique, pt 1

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(Or, why won’t my inner voices just shut up?) I’ve got a book coming out. It’s small press, and its only loosely horrific so I’m not plugging it here, but suffice it to say the experience has taught me quite a lot about publishing novels. (I’m working out all my industry naiveté before my Great [...]

The Mothman Files Anthology

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“Title: The Mothman Files Publisher: Woodland Press Editor: Michael Knost Format: Trade Paperback Payment: five-cents per word (upon publication) plus contributor copy. No reprints Story length: Up to 3000 words No multiple or simultaneous subs Deadline: Friday, July 1, 2011 E-mail submissions to: themothmanfiles at yahoo dot com We will accept .doc attachments only. I [...]

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