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The Horror Zine, founded by award-winning editor and writer Jeani Rector, is currently reading for a monsters anthology. Full guidelines are on their site. We are looking for monsters, creatures, beasts, mutants, monstrosities, frightening oddities, malformations, altered insects or animals, mythical creatures, monsters from space or from bodies of water, or something we can’t even imagine but you can. We are not looking for vampires, werewolves, mummies, or Frankenstein (unless it is something totally unique). We are not looking for ghosts. We are not looking […]
April 15th, 2023 | Filed under Books,Professional | Read More »
You have probably noticed that we have been gearing up to cover the new season of Face Off here at Gothic.net, including an Exclusive Interview with SyFy Face Off Season 2 Winner Rayce Bird by Gothic.net columnist extraordinaire Ed Grabianowski. Dark fashion and beauty site Gothic.Org wants in on the Face Off fun and is seeking someone to cover the show. We are more interested in the monsters and movies aspects over here, but, to write for Gothic.Org, you’ll need to be more of a […]
August 15th, 2012 | Filed under Headline,Professional | Read More »
The Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine is now accepting electronic submissions for their magazine through a new Dell Magazine custom online system. EQMM’s current writers guidelines are below. Nice to have the prestige of a magazine which has been published continuously since 1941, with the convenience of e-submissions. Download the Writers’ Guidelines Click here for a printable Adobe Acrobat version of these Writer’s Guidelines. Writers’ Guidelines As of February 14, 2011 EQMM will be using an online submission system (http://eqmm.magazinesubmissions.com) that has been designed to streamline […]
May 20th, 2012 | Filed under Headline,Professional,Zines | Read More »
The folks at Lovecraft Zine have a lot going on right now. They just put out issue 14. They are doing app giveaways. And they just opened for submissions again last month. Well worth checking out. UPDATE: April 3, 2012: I am once again accepting submissions, but please read the entire page below for the guidelines. ALSO, I am currently accepting submissions for the following themes: Lovecraftian time-travel stories for an issue sometime this year. Lovecraftian Halloween stories for the October issue. Lovecraftian Christmas stories […]
May 15th, 2012 | Filed under Headline,Professional,Zines | Read More »
Founded in 1956, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine is probably the longest-running mystery magazine on the newsstand today. If your dark writing has a mystery structure to it, this might be a good venue for you. Initially, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine licensed the Alfred Hitchcock name. Hitchcock the man was not an editor of the publication, but his television show did adapt a number of stories from it for the small screen. Since the early 1980’s Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine has had female editors, first Cathleen […]
May 5th, 2012 | Filed under Headline,Professional | Read More »
Criminal Element, a subsidiary of leading publishing house Macmillan, is reading for high quality crime and mystery fiction in all subgenres. Much of the site is teasers for forthcoming novels, but they also buy original fiction for the Criminal Element site. Awesome tagline: Murder. Mystery. Mayhem. Professional pay rates and then some. Criminal Element welcomes submissions of original short crime and mystery stories in all subgenres. We are not interested in “true crime” or other non-fiction material. We are interested in stories between 6,000 and […]
April 21st, 2012 | Filed under Professional | Read More »
Christopher Heath and V. Shane at Heathen Oracle are reading for a dark swords & sorcery anthology called Artifacts and Relics: Extreme Sorcery. They are taking the interesting approach of only contacting authors they are going to publish and not sending rejections, as well as announcing acceptances their Facebook page and blog. A modern approach to old tymie fiction. Heathen Oracle pays a bit higher than standard rates for indie press. Heathen Oracle is now accepting stories for its Azieran Adventures anthology, “Artifacts and Relics: […]
April 14th, 2012 | Filed under Professional | Read More »
Editors Brian M. Sammons and Glynn Owen Barrass are currently reading for an anthology of scary Western tales, to be published by role-playing game company Chaosium, home of Call of Cthulu. Supernatural elements welcome. THE EDGE OF SUNDOWN An Original Anthology of Western Horror Stories Writer’s Guidelines Welcome to the writers’ guidelines for the western horror fiction anthology The Edge of Sundown, to be assembled by Kevin Ross (Dead But Dreaming 1 and 2) and Brian M. Sammons (Cthulhu Unbound 3 and Undead & Unbound), […]
April 7th, 2012 | Filed under Professional | Read More »
Schaffner Press publishes books with social relevance. Although they are not a genre press, they do publish horror, provided it is really top quality innovative work, such as the writing of Todd Grimson. Since Schaffner Press is a small independent press with a list of about 4-6 books a year, it is important that, before querying, you peruse the website www.schaffnerpress.com to determine if your project would be suitable. Also, bear in mind that, while the press publishes both fiction and non-fiction, it adheres to […]
March 14th, 2012 | Filed under Books,Headline,Professional | Read More »
Tor.com updated their guidelines a few weeks ago. This is a good venue for writers because it is a high visibility site, a site connected with a very established publishing house, and publication here pays a bunch. Tor.com pays twenty-five cents a word, which is extremely high for genre fiction. That said, they don’t like simultaneous submissions, but they tend to reply very slowly. Tor.com also looks for extensive rights, but they are paying for them, and these are the sort of rights which become […]
March 13th, 2012 | Filed under Headline,Professional | Read More »
