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indie publisher of amazing horror
Art card: a leash and chain lie atop an unmade, blood-dappled bed with white sheets. Text reads "KENNEL by Garrett Cook"
New: KENNEL by Garrett Cook! The shadows of the kink world whisper of a man known as Daddy. Pup is a homeless femboy with only dreams to comfort them. When they meet, Pup is led into a strange world of drugs, eroticism, and degradation. #Books tinyurl.com/gckennel
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World Upside Down: Mind-Bending Lovecraftian Tales, an indie #horror anthology of cosmic dread, madness & impossible truths, seeks short stories, art, & poetry that pays homage to H. P. #Lovecraft
#Writers #Poetry #ShortStories #IndieAuthors #Booksky
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Art card featuring a dancer wound around a stripper's pole holding a severed leg. Text reads "PINS by Jessica McHugh" with the I in PINS represented by a stylized bowling pin.
Brand new: PINS by Jessica McHugh! With cash and weed dwindling Birdie does what any 21-year-old woman would: gets a job dancing at a strip club / bowling alley called PINS and, as murders occur, begins to question her sexuality. #WritingCommunity a.co/d/2b0zkgJ
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Image of forest with pink/purple light and the "Open to Novella Queries" call, Oct 21-31, accepting speculative ecofiction, folk horror, weird fiction, new weird & surreal literary science fiction.
Violet Lichen Books (@apexmag.bsky.social's sister imprint) is open to novella queries until the witching hour on Halloween! ๐ค๐๐ฟ
We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF.
Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions
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Literary magazine submission benefits for English Literature and creative writing students: bit.ly/4qrJut4
#Submissions #Anthology #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #GossamerWight #Writer #Writing #Student #University #FlashFiction #ShortStory #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy
Art card featuring a skull-faced figure with hanging hair and an insect body with shimmering wings. Text reads "Dying in the Dying Lands, A Collection by John Baltisberger Compatible With MรRK BORG"
Brand new! DYING IN THE DYING LANDS: kick back, relax, and enjoy as John Baltisberger shares a bouquet of vivid short stories depicting the variety of death in the pitch-black world of MรRK BORG! #TTRPG #Books madnessheart.press/product/dyin...
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โ๏ธ Now Taking Submissions!
Frost Zone Stories Books 3 & 4 seek Dark Literary Fiction, Quiet Horror, and Literary Horror.
๐ฐ $15 CAD + copies
๐๏ธ Deadline: Nov 1, 2025
Send your subtle, chilling, and strange tales.
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Shotgun Honey Presents Anthology Series (Fiction; Horror, Mystery; non-paying) opened to fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
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Art card featuring a green-tinted closeup of a woman's eye with hair draped near it. Text reads "Ten Words For A Wicked Woman by Susan Snyder"
BRAND NEW! Ten Words For A Wicked Woman by the inimitable Susan Snyder is out now! This book is a rant against our march backward into patriarchy. It's a gander at hypocrisy and inner turmoil. It's Snyder at her best! #Books #WritingCommunity a.co/d/cVw4LAH
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ADVANCE NOTICE (Full Call Will Be Posted When Available): Views From The Overlook
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Open: Looks to only be Feb 1st, 2026
Pay: 2k ahead of royalties
Theme: Stories set in the Overlook Hotel from 1910-1949, prior to The Shining
Note: *THERE WILL ONLY BE ONE STORY ACCEPTED*
Art card featuring a "shadow person:" a black silhouette wearing a broad-brimmed hat, with only gleaming white teeth and glowing red eyes showing through the darkness. Text reads "Sleep Paralysis: a two-person live-action roleplaying game"
Available now! SLEEP PARALYSIS, a live action roleplaying game about fear by Garret Cook, is an experimental game for two or more people that involves being creepy and working through big feelings through the medium of games. #LARP #Geek #Horror madnessheart.press/product/slee...
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Art card featuring a painting of a vaginal-looking orchid disgorging a wad of moist stamen. Text reads "Gush: Tales of Vaginal Horror by Gina Ranalli"
Out now! Gush - Tales of Vaginal Horror by Gina Ranalli! Portal of wonders and moon-linked mysticism. Creator of life. Object of desire. However much you sugarcoat it, nature can be gross. Messy, pungent, painful, and downright horrific. #Horror #Books tinyurl.com/GRGush
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Are you a woman (inc. transwomen) or non-binary filmmaker with a horror, sci fi, fantasy, or speculative genre film? Wench Film Festival is open for submissions and we want to see your work! We also accept films by men with woman or non-binary protagonists!
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Frost Zone Stories @frostzonestories.bsky.social (Fiction; General, Horror; pays sometimes) opened to fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
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Art card featuring a portrait of the late, great Jay Wilburn wearing his signature black hoodie. Text reads "Beautiful Darkness by Jay Wilburn"
Nominated for a 2024 #Splatterpunk Award for Best Collection! "Beautiful Darkness" by the late Jay Wilburn collects sixteen #shortstories from this master of the craft, including the 2019 story โSeersucker Motherfucker.โ #WritingCommunity #Horror #Books tinyurl.com/JayWBD
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Art card: a humanoid figure wearing soft, fungal-looking tan clothing and holding a soft-brimmed cowboy hat stands before a desolate background. His head from the eyes up ascends in pinkish-white ribbons of vapor. Text reads "Bound With Briars by Charles R. Bernard"
BRAND NEW: Bound With Briars by Charles R. Bernard! In a future dystopian American monarchy, inhuman experiments are carried out on prisoners in a pocket dimension. Now, however, a stranger has appeared to upset the balance. #WritingCommunity #Horror tinyurl.com/BoundWithBri...
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DARK ANTHEM PRESS IS HAVING A ONE DAY SUBMISSION ON HALLOWEEN FOR HORROR BOOK SUBMISSIONS ๐๐ป๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ
Go to www.darkanthempress.com on October 31st from 8am ET to submit your horror novel.
* We are only looking for completed manuscripts - NOT pitches, one pagers or loglines.
Taking Submissions: HORRIFIC: Tales of the Dying and the Dead
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Deadline: March 1st, 2026
Payment: $20, and an additional $20 if later produced in audio or large print format
Theme: A large range of horror, please read post for specifics
#writingcommunity #AmWriting
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Art card in the style of a scuffed 1980s paperback: a priest wearing a cross and Roman collar extends hands filled with wriggling worms. Text reads "Squirming All The Way Up by Joey Powell"
Brand new: Squirming All The Way Up by Joey Powell! Two brothers reunite in rural Virginia to reconcile after their split years ago. For one, it's a chance to indoctrinate his brother into the Fellowship of the First Divine. #Horror #Books madnessheart.press/product/squi...
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Bona Books Presents A new queer literary magazine FANTABULOSA! Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices. Science fiction, fantasy and horror Short fiction & poetry Submissions open now
Follow us to hear all the news, and - if you know any queer writers - please share this FAR and WIDE.
We're ravenously seeking:
QUEER FICTION, up to 6,000 words, in science fiction, fantasy or speculative horror ($0.08 /word)
QUEER SPECULATIVE POETRY ($50 /poem)
No reprints. #writersky ๐๐๐
A science fiction fantasy-horror illustration of an astronaut transforming into a howling werewolf inside their spacesuit as they gaze at the full moon.
โHouston, We Have a Problemโ
Art by me for Octoberโs upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of MOON! Writers, submissions are due tonight by 11:59 pm EST for the new issue next Saturday. Full details available at scifansat.com/landing.html!
#SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts
Art card featuring a skull-faced figure with hanging hair and an insect body with shimmering wings. Text reads "Dying in the Dying Lands, A Collection by John Baltisberger Compatible With MรRK BORG"
New today! DYING IN THE DYING LANDS: kick back, relax, and enjoy as John Baltisberger shares a bouquet of vivid short stories depicting the variety of death in the pitch-black world of MรRK BORG! #TTRPG #Books madnessheart.press/product/dyin...
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Taking Submissions: Waxen Volume 2
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Deadline: December 15th, 2025
Payment: Contributor copy (U.S. contributors only), $50 flat fee for accepted stories/illustrations
Theme: Occult/weird horror, with an eye for experimental work
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
Sublimation (Poetry Art; Fantasy, Horror, SF; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
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Art card featuring a psychedelic side-view of a pregnant person surrounded by a typewriter, goggles, a butterfly, a centipede, and a talon. Text reads "The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey"
NEW! The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey, a curiosity disguised as a guide for the pregnant! Replete with footnotes by imaginary obstetricians, Guffey explores the absurdity of postmodern motherhood. #Books a.co/d/1WFOsAQ
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Taking Submissions: RDG Books Is Open To Horror Novels
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Deadline: November 28th, 2025
Payment: $100 and royalties
Theme: Horror
The water remembers what weโve forgotten.
Whatโs hiding beneath its surface?
Tell us your story and you might see it published in Tales from the Black Sea.
Submissions now Open.
#horror #WritingContest #HorrorCommunity
Art card featuring a hunched, mossy nature druid with curling antlers facing off against a glistening pig monster emitting toxic green sludge from nozzles on its chest. Text reads "Overgrowth: A BADASS Game By John Baltisberger and Simone Tammetta"
Overgrowth is now available on @drivethrurpg.com! Using our BADASS system, guide your twisted nature druid into battle as you destroy powerful, corrupted corporate polluters! "Save the Planet. Unleash Mayhem." - Nate Southard, Author and Game Developer #TTRPGs legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/492064
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