Apparition
Lit
https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–5,000 words
Deadline: August 15-31, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: by the 15th day of the
following month after submissions close
Description: Speculative fiction
that meet our quarterly theme. Speculative fiction is weird, almost
unclassifiable. It’s fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and literary. Send us stories
with enough emotional heft to break a heart, with prose that’s as clear and
delicious as broth. We’re looking for proactive characters and beautiful
language, all wrapped up in a complete story. Month of August Theme = NOSTALGIA.
https://www.assemblemedia.com/artifacts
Payment: 8–10 cents a word
Story Length: “at least” 5,000 words
(soft range)
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: Responses only for
acceptance. Assume rejection if no response after 90 days.
Description: Stories of wonder and
suspense that also reflect contemporary issues and incite meaningful
conversation. (*NOTE: Submitters, double-check the rights that are being sold
with work).
Diabolical Plots ezine
https://www.diabolicalplots.com/guidelines/
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: 3,500 or less
Deadline: Open between July 24–August 1, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response Time: One month after end of submission window
Description: telepathy stories of every shape and style. Stories might
be as intimate as mind-readers in love, forever seeing themselves through their
lover’s eyes; or as harrowing as a telepath on the battlefield, drowned in
every iota of pain, fear and grief felt for miles. They might be as bizarre as
telepathy tourism from alien planets, all cognitive connoisseurs who find
humans to have a particularly piquant mindset; or as familiar as a job
interview, which has simply gained a new mental level to spar upon.
Dracula Beyond Stoker: Issue 2:
Renfield
https://www.dbspress.com/submissions
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 1,500–5,000 words
Deadline: January 15, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: Unknown, but reported as
generally between 30 and 60 days.
Description: The best new fiction
based on Stoker’s characters, locations, and themes. This issue: Give us your
best Renfield story. Everybody’s favorite flyman is such a rich character, yet
we know so little about him. Who do you think he is?
Dark Recesses Magazine
http://darkrecessespress.com/submissions/
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 500–5,000 words
Deadline: Revolving submission
periods. Current widow is through August 15.
Reprints?: No
Response: Up to 12 weeks
Description: Non-themed horror/dark
fiction pieces.
WEBSITE (No mention of
Submissions): https://www.borderlandspress.com/
Social Media Submissions
Post): https://www.facebook.com/tom.monteleone.1/posts/pfbid02UJCkwFcxiubiDxpnbGqT5hoUFchLJR4biSQ4zV3s3zgDUBw7aRhvCCarZwEnyo8el
Payment: 5–7 cents a word
Story Length: No limit. (Suggested 2,000–5,000
words)
Deadline: No deadline. “Until
Filled”
Reprints?: No
Response: Up to 3 months
Description: Original, weird/ horror
fiction. NOTE: Submissions are to be postal mailed in only; no email.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://theevilcookie.com/pages/submissions
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: up to 3,000 words
Deadline: August 1–October 1, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: generally within 30 days
Description: Short stories filled
with gore, splatter, and extreme horror: Water, Extreme Horror, Splatterpunk,
Dark Humor.
https://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–7,500 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: up to 3 months
Description: Highly imaginative
stories with a healthy dose of the odd. Odd characters, odd experiences, odd
realities. We’re looking for genre / speculative stories and are quite partial
to slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal.
Thursday, July 28, 2022
August, 2022 Dark Fiction Short Story Markets
Saturday, July 23, 2022
Nomination to the 2022 World Fantasy Awards!!
This week I learned that I was nominated to the 2022 World Fantasy Awards!!! To say I am insanely thrilled and honored for this recognition would be an understatement. I have long followed and admired the World Fantasy Awards and recipients, and it’s the realization of a dream to be named among such highly-esteemed peers. I’ve been named a finalist in the category of anthology for my book Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, published last November by Dark Moon Books.
Thank you to all contributors who were a part of this creative journey. There were 63 authors involved, 2 artists, and, of course, my editing counterpart, Professor Charlatan Bardot (who also wishes to extend his gratitude).
Thank you also to the judges, readers, reviewers, and other supporters!
And congratulations also to many other friends and authors I admire who are on this year’s ballot, such as Jeffrey Ford, Eugen Bacon, Ellen Datlow, Paula Guran, Usman Mlk, Angela Slatter, Liz Hand, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and so many others!
And this coming on the back of a 2021 Bram Stoker Award in category of anthology, and I can safely say this book is still going strong! I'm so proud of it!
More here: https://locusmag.com/2022/07/2022-world-fantasy-awards-finalists/
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