Just got a box of these beauties!
Coming Aug. 12: SCARING AND DARING anthology ed. by moi!
https://ericjguignard.com/SacringandDaring.html
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Tales of Horror
Magazine
https://ashtonspot.com/talesofhorror/
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: Intermittent. Currently
open, but may close at any time.
Reprints?: Yes
Response: unknown
Description: Non-themed horror short
fiction and poetry (seemingly with a preference to work that touches on the
classic style).
https://www.analogsf.com/contact-us/writers-guidelines
Payment: 8–10 cents a word (9
cents a word for non-fiction)
Story Length: up to 20,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: 2–3 months
Description: Science fiction stories
in which some aspect of future science or technology is so integral to the plot
that, if that aspect were removed, the story would collapse.
TWO SEPARATE ANTHOLOGIES from Flame Tree Publishing
Payment: 8 cents a word (6 cents/ word for reprints)
Story Length: 3,000–4,000 words (soft range)
Deadline: August 24, 2025
Reprints?: Yes
Response: within 4 months of the submission deadline
• The Valkyries: Fiction stories that explore and expand on existing tales
associated with Valkyries (not simply retelling classic tales) or imagine
completely new names and narratives for those who have never seen the limelight.
https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/the-valkyries-call-for-submissions
• Odysseus: Fiction
short stories that present the fully formed, rounded and complex figure that is
Odysseus, from his point of view and as others see him, as he faces the
challenges of living up to the expectations put upon him.
https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/odysseus-call-for-submissions
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
Payment: 8 cents/ word original; 2 cents/ word reprint (range for non-fiction)
Story Length: 1,000–10,000 words
(focus on shorter form)
Deadline: Opens ONLY the 1st and 2nd day only of every
month.
Reprints?: Yes
Response: abt. 2 months
Description: Well written original stories in science fiction, fantasy,
myth, fairy tales, and eldritch; in written, podcast, video, and/or graphic
story form, and from around the world. We care about character, plot, ideas,
and storytelling ability. We accept both serious and humorous work (no horror).
Also interested in poetry and non-fiction (articles).
Crepuscular Magazine (drabble/flash
fiction)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/submission-85137677
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: up to 250 words
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: undeclared (seems to
average less than one month)
Description: Microfiction stories
exploring places, characters, and questions buried in the gray areas between
this and that, here and there, night and day, alive and dead, evil and good,
feminine and masculine, up and down, real and unreal. If you're not quite sure
what that means, lean into that feeling... While we lean toward speculative
pieces, we have a love for those in-betweeny pieces that blur genre. We accept
horror (both spec and non), fantasy, science fiction, general/literary fiction,
and everything in between.
https://www.sanspress.com/submissions
Payment: €200 flat rate
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: All genres: stories
that are ready to get their hands dirty in the making of a newer, fairer world;
it is for the characters that are driven not for the love of power but for
solidarity, for genuine belief, and for a refusal to surrender to cynicism and
despair.
https://remains.uk/pages/submissions
Payment: Unknown. ESTIMATE
1–3 cents a word (negotiated)
Story Length: Unknown. Previously
open to work up to 10,000 words; however suggested probably no more than 5,000
words
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Non-themed, general
audience, thoughtful horror. From the former editor of Black Static Magazine.
https://talestoterrify.com/submissions/
Payment: 2 cents a word (1
cent/ word for reprints)
Story Length: 2,000–10,000 words
Deadline: Currently open. Unknown
when will close
Reprints?: Yes
Response: up to 3 months
Description: Non-themed short
horror, dark fantasy, and other disturbing fiction. We want to read works that
threaten to bleed into our reality and corrupt something as ordinary as a
toaster. Anything is allowed as long as it’s well-conceived and well-written.
Deadly Duos: Funfair (Dreadstone
Books anthology)
https://www.dreadstonebooks.com/submissions
Payment: £0.01 per word
(capped at 3,000 words)
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
(prefer only up to 3,000 words)
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: within 1 month of the submission deadline
Description: Dark tales from the
fairground—twisted rides, carnivals of terror, sideshows, and the sinister
shadows behind the bright lights.
Book Chain Campaign: BookChain16: Tracking Log for:
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NOTES:
Book back copy: "A workaholic splits his time between home and hotel rooms until an anonymous cryptic message arrives, setting off a wrinkle in the time continuum and slowly shredding his sanity. Elsewhere, a woman's jealousy over her spouse's connection with their only child boils over, leading her to see monsters everywhere except the mirror. University fraternity brothers discover that a cruel prank has dire consequences but the full extent of their punishment is yet to come, while an intrepid hiker explores an abandoned Cold War facility hidden within a Massachusetts mountain only to realize that military secrets aren't the only things buried within. From witches, wendigos, and werecats to sirens, sadists, and serial killers, Rebecca Rowland serves readers a twenty-tale meal of cosmic, creature, and quiet horror in platters heaping with unsettling trepidation. In Rowland's long-awaited follow-up to The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight, a lighted room provides no safe haven, and in the darkest corner of the basement waits a ravenous dread. The most sinister objects of fear are never truly discarded… just repurposed. Includes a foreword by Mary SanGiovanni."
(pub. Dead Sky Publishing, October 10, 2023)
Available here: https://deadskypublishing.com/portfolio-item/white-trash-recycled-nightmares/
And reviewed on:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/White-Recycled-Nightmares-Rebecca-Rowland/dp/1639511202/
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/white-trash-and-recycled-nightmares-rebecca-rowland/1143024617?ean=9781639511204
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98657775-white-trash-and-recycled-nightmares
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AND READ WHAT #BOOKCHAIN IS ABOUT HERE!
https://ericjguignard.blogspot.com/2024/06/book-chain.html
Mmeory (anthology, Air and Nothingness Press)
http://aanpress.com/submissions.html
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,500 words
Deadline: Open between July 7–August
15, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: September 15, 2025
Description: Stories of memory manipulation.
Examples include magic spells, cyborg memory edits, very unreliable narrators,
time travel gone horribly wrong; open to all genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction,
Urban Fantasy, Alternate History, Steampunk, Hopepunk, Solarpunk, and beyond...
https://www.diabolicalplots.com/guidelines/
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: 3,500 words or less
Deadline: Open
between July 7– July 21, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response Time: One month after end of submission window
Description: Speculative fiction–science
fiction, fantasy, and horror. Everything should have a speculative element–that
includes horror. Feel free to mix in other genres at will–a fantasy mystery or
a science fiction romance.
Mysterion
(ezine)
https://www.mysteriononline.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
Payment: 8 cents a word (4 cents for reprints)
Story Length: up to 9,000 words
Deadline: Open
between July 1–July 31, 2025
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Four months
Description: Christian-themed
speculative stories and artwork—science fiction, fantasy, horror—with Christian
themes, characters, or cosmology; science fiction and fantasy, good ghost
stories, etc.; there's great fiction material hidden in the mysteries of
Christian theology—cherubim, leviathan, nephilim, visions, prophecy, and more.
The Orange & Bee
https://theorangebee.substack.com/p/submission-guidelines
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 4,000 words
Deadline: Open between July 1– July 14,
2025
Reprints?: No
Response: Within three weeks
Description: Fairy tale narratives:
Original works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction that engage in a significant
way with the long history of fairy tales. We are interested in works that
stretch, expand, test, subvert, and challenge the fairy-tale tradition. We are
interested in works that are entertaining, but also in works that matter: that
is, in works that are both pleasurable to read and thought-provoking.
TWO SEPARATE ANTHOLOGIES: Romantic Fantasy from Flame Tree Publishing
https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/romantic-fantasy-first-submissions-0
Payment: 8 cents a word (6
cents/ word for reprints)
Story Length: 2,000–4,000 words (soft range)
Deadline: July 20, 2025
Reprints?: Yes
Response: within 4 months of the submission deadline
1. A Breath of Time: Lost loves, love discovered, love unreachable unless Time itself is
conquered, these and many other time-bending, time traveling, time feasting
themes can spark your imagination for stories of alternate history, of ancient
forests returning to haunt the present and great adventures through dreams and
timeless mountain tops, all with hearts beating to the rhythm of romance.
2. Of Love & Dragons: Dragons may be fierce but they are symbols
of great power, and the bond between human and dragon, once forged can never be
broken. Or can it? Can romance deal a deathly trail of vows abandoned, or
forgotten, can realms beyond our time conjure tales of Dragon Lords and warrior
princesses, of great rivalries and oceans yearning with desire and
determination, can you tempt the ancient ways into new meanings, and new
stories.
Mergnaser Magazine
https://mergansermagazine.com/about.html
Payment: 8 cents a word
($1/line for poetry)
Story Length: up to 2,000 words
(soft limit)
Deadline: No closing date listed
Reprints?: No
Response: Within two months
Description: Strong, well-written
pieces across a wide range of material, including fiction, creative
non-fiction, and poetry.
https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-guidelines/
Payment: £0.02 (about US 3 cents a word)
Story Length: 500–2,500 words
Deadline: Open between July 15–August
31, 2025
Reprints?: Yes (if not available
online)
Response: Three weeks
Description: Science fiction,
fantasy, or supernatural horror prose with a strong emotional or psychological
focus.
https://sluggerfiction.com/submit/
Payment: $25 flat
Story Length: 1,000–4,000
words
Deadline: July 15, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: 45 days after close of
submissions
Description: Non-themed
horror; all subgenres of horror (dark fantasy, sci-fi, noir all accepted as
long as horror plays a central role).
I finally added that talismanic “S” to both my websites (the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate) and also completed a massive overhaul of content and design!
Check out my sites, what do you think?
Here’s my author’s site: https://www.ericjguignard.com/
Here’s my Indie Press: https://www.darkmoonbooks.com/
(Dark Moon Books will soon be publishing its 30th title!!)
Deep Anthology (Death's
Head Press)
https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/Market/Index/19663
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 2,500–10,000 words
Deadline: July 31, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Original horror short
stories regarding the unexplored depths of our planet and the universe.
SmokeLong
Quarterly
https://smokelong.submittable.com/submit/316909/dark-fantasy-and-psychological-thriller-a-smokelong-themed-call-for-submission
Payment: $300 flat
Story Length: up to 1,000 words
Deadline: August 14, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: Two weeks
Description: Prose that is
troubling, that explores our darkest fears. We're not quite sure we're ready
for this to be honest, but that's part of the appeal. We are looking for
literary prose. We do not want to weather gratuitous violence or cruelty, but
we do--or at least we think we do--want to feel fright, unease, a racing heart.
If you are a writer of stories that do this, this call is for you. Think
Shirley Jackson.
Plott Hound Magazine
https://plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
(preferred 3,000–4,000); or flash fiction up to 999 words
Deadline: Open between June 1 and June
15, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: Unknown
Description: Stories with
anthropomorphized animals as protagonists; Animal-centric speculative fiction
(fantasy, science fiction, horror). (Also open to poetry and non-fiction.)
Anomaly
https://forms.gle/gyYiefg2A2rffr779
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: flash fiction up to 300
words
Deadline: Open between June 1 and June
7, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Dark and disruptive SF
stories that have strong emotional resonance.
Haven Speculative
https://www.havenspec.com/submit/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 6,000 words
Open From: June 1–June 30, 2025
Reprints?: No (with some exceptions)
Response: within 70 days
Description: Fantasy and science
fiction stories, poems, and non-fiction, for a modern audience with a
sensibility for social consciousness.
Clarkesworld Magazine
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/submissions/
Payment: 14 cents per word
Story Length: 1,000–22,000 words
Deadline: Intermittent (usually open)
Reprints?: No
Response: Unknown
Description: Science fiction and
fantasy. No horror, but dark SF/F is permitted.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
Saturday Mourning
Television (anthology)
https://sliceduppress.com/submissions/
Payment: $35 flat
Story Length: 1,000–4,000 words
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: July 31, 2025
Description: Horror fiction inspired
by early morning kids TV; the educational/bizarre 1960’s & 70’s, the advert-packed
80’s, the radical 90’s, the wayward & wacky 2000’s or anything beyond. Even
web-based entertainment is fair game. And don’t limit yourself to tales
involving kids, what about parents, or performers & hosts, workers behind
the scenes, even animated creations.
Fearmoji: Queer Emoji Horror
https://www.slashichorrorpress.com/submissions
Payment: $25 flat
Story Length: 4,000–7,500 words
Deadline: August 1, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: Presumably within three
months
Description: Adult queer body horror
that somehow strongly incorporates the use of emoji…. sentient emojis, cursed
emojis, a secret combination of emojis that unlocks a demon, a serial killer
whose signature is the love heart reaction, disaffected youths whose use of the
shrug emoji comes back to haunt them, a coder with an emoji axe to grind… The
potential here is limitless. Include believable, authentic characters, and
crazy fucking scenarios!
Kozy Krampus: The Cosmic Horror of
the Holiday Sweater
https://www.underlandpress.com/the-cosmic-horror-of-the-holiday-sweater/
Payment: 1 cent a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
(also open to poetry)
Deadline: June 15–June 30, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Cosmic horror inherent
in the holiday season with Kozy Krampus, a collection of stories merry and
monstrous, cozy and cosmic. The gothic nightmares and horrific haunts of our
forebears persist in our fever-fueled dreams. Some monsters are never
vanquished; they merely find new shapes. Slip into the dark shadows behind the
million flickering holiday lights. Stare down the prehistoric fruit log in
which lurks something truly eldritch and batrachian. Hark to the songs sung
after midnight by carolers with extra-long tongues and extra-sharp teeth. This
is the holiday season with the masks ripped off.
