Call for Book Reviewers — FANTASMAGORIANA DELUXE

Call for Book Reviewers!

Next month myself and Leslie S. Klinger will be releasing a very special and historically important book: FANTASMAGORIANA DELUXE !

Fantasmagoriana Deluxe brings together for the first time all the work—AND translated into English—of the 1800s anthologies Fantasmagoriana and Tales of the Dead. Fantasmagoriana, notably, led to the creation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (among other works).

With introduction by Lisa Morton and original English translations by Anna Ziegelhof.

I am looking for anyone who would like a complimentary advance copy in exchange for an honest review (to be published at Amazon, Goodreads, and/or a highly-visible blog).

If interested, I can provide an ebook in either .pdf or .mobi or .epub format, or a physical paperback (paperback if located in the continental USA).

Title: Fantasmagoriana Deluxe: A Combined Edition of Fantasmagoriana and Tales of the Dead

Editors: Eric J. Guignard and Leslie S. Klinger

Price: $37.95 for hardback with dust jacket; $18.95 for trade paperback; $7.99 for ebook

Publisher: Dark Moon Books (Los Angeles, CA)

Publisher Web: www.darkmoonbooks.com

Number of pages: 242 pgs at 6” x 9” trim (78,500 words)

13-digit ISBN (hardback): 978-1-949491-55-5

13-digit ISBN (paperback): 978-1-949491-53-1

13-digit ISBN (e-book): 978-1-949491-54-8

Date of publication: November 28, 2023

More here: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/fantasmagoriana_deluxe.html

#bookreview #reviewersrock #bookreviewer

Press Release available here: Fantasmagoriana Deluxe Press Release

State of Horror Literature at the local Barnes & Noble (Chino Hills, CA)!

I stopped in at the local Barnes & Noble (Chino Hills, California location) over the weekend (10/14/2023) and was pleased to see a strong showing of horror books!

There were three packed bookcases (although one was mislabeled as science fiction), each with six shelves. The amount of horror offerings seems greater than normal, presumably as a Halloween-season-push (i.e. over the Summer, it was just two cases with a bit of overflow). Additionally, there were at least two other stand-alone displays of horror books throughout the store.

I saw lots of friends’ names and exciting titles that are trending in the horror community, and took some pics for posterity and to showcase my community!

There was tons of Stephen King, of course, filling 4-1/2 shelves of one case, but besides him, no single author had more than one shelf. Darcy Coates had one shelf (with 17 different titles!), and Joe Hill about 1/2 a shelf (with 4 different titles), and Paul Tremblay about 1/2 a shelf (with 6 different titles), and Simone St. James about 1/2 a shelf (with 7 different titles).

There were also some of the standards such as Richard Matheson, Clive Barker, V.C. Andrews; Peter Straub; and Anne Rice (plus classics DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, CARMILLA, PSYCHO, etc…. even THE MONK!). But everything else was a very wide assortment of different contemporary (many indie) authors, and really a huge variety of offerings. I tip my hat to the taste and careful selection by the store’s buyer.

Among some of the other titles I recognized and wanted to give a shout-out to are:

Cynthia Pelayo (LOTERIA);
Zoje Stage (BABY TEETH, WONDERLAND);
Victor Lavalle (THE CHANGELING);
Jonathan Maberry (PATIENT ZERO; ZOMBIE CSU; INK);
Stephen Graham Jones (THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS; DON’T FEAR THE REAPER; MONGRELS);
Alma Katsu (THE DEEP; RED WIDOW; THE FERVOR);
Philip Fracassi (BOYS IN THE VALLEY)
Elizabeth Hand (A HAUNTING ON THE HILL);
Adam Nevill (THE RITUAL; LAST DAYS; NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE);
Chuck Tingle (CAMP DAMASCUS);
John Joseph Adams (WASTELANDS);
Bentley Little (THE DISAPPEARANCE;
Eric LaRocca (THINGS HAVE GOTTEN WORSE SINCE LAST WE SPOKE);
Chuck Wendig (THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS; BLACK RIVER ORCHARD);
Silvia Moreno-Garcia (MEXICAN GOTHIC; CERTAIN DARK THINGS);
Catriona Ward (THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET; SUNDIAL; LITTLE EVE);
Josh Malerman (GOBLIN; BIRD BOX; SPIN A BLACK YARN);
Ronald Malfi (COME WITH ME; GHOST WRITTEN; BLACK MOUTH; THEY LURK);
Ellen Datlow (WHEN THINGS GET DARK; SCREAMS FROM THE DARK);
Lisa Morton and Ellen Datlow (HAUNTED NIGHTS); (including a short story from Eric J. Guignard!)
Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger (GHOST STORIES);
Eric J. Guignard and Leslie S. Klinger, ed. (THE KING IN YELLOW);
Craig DiLouie (CHILDREN OF RED PEAK; EPISODE THIRTEEN);
Richard Chizmar (GWENDY’S MAGIC FEATHER; CHASING THE BOOGEYMAN);
Delilah S. Dawson (BLOOM);
Christopher Golden (ARARAT; THE PANDORA ROOM; ALL HALLOWS);
Grady Hendrix (HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE; HORRORSTÖR; FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP; THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB'S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES; MY BEST FRIEND’S EXORCISM);
Lucy A. Snyder (SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER);
Sadie Hartmann (101 HORROR BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU'RE MURDERED);
V. Castro (THE HAUNTING OF ALEJANDRA);

and many, many others!!

Great work, B&N!

October, 2023 Dark Fiction Short Story Markets

HWA L.A.: For October, 2023

New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes

At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)

The Map of Lost Places (Apex Book Co.)
https://www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontpage/anthology-submissions-call-the-map-of-lost-places
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: Open between December 1 and December 31, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: One month
Description: Stories about places where weird things happen. Places that have strange histories, their own traditions and customs, their own dangers. These can be based off real folk tales or old wives tales.


Planet Scumm
https://www.planetscumm.space/submit
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: November 5, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Previously unpublished short fiction that doesn’t lean heavily on genre tropes. Hard sci-fi, soft sci-fi, sci-fi that melts in your mouth-brain not your hand-brain. Speculative fiction, weird fiction, slipstream, glitterlit, analogpunk.


Assemble Artifacts Magazine (Assemble Media)
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).


The Deadlands
https://thedeadlands.com/guidelines/
Payment: 10 cents a word (1 cent for reprints)
Story Length: up to 5,000 words (preferably 3,000–4,000 words)
Deadline: November 30, 2023
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Two weeks
Description: Speculative fiction stories about death, or what death may involve. EX: A ghost in a shadowed wood. An afterlife discovered through a rusted door. An abandoned house in the middle of a haunted field. A skeletal figure moving with intent toward something unseen. Death personified; stories from a worldwide perspective, different cultures, different approaches to death.


Apparition Lit (upcoming)—Theme of BLIGHT
https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–5,000 words
Deadline: Open between November 15–November 30, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: by the 15th day of the following month after submissions close
Description: Quarterly Theme = “Blight”. Any speculative fiction story related to this concept/ theme.


Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
Payment: 8 cents/ word original; 2 cents/ word reprint (range for non-fiction)
Story Length: 1,000–40,000 words (focus on shorter form)
Deadline: Opens the 1^st and 2^nd day only of each 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 non-fiction.



***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of the Month”

Three-Lobed Burning Eye
https://www.3lobedmag.com/submissions.html
Payment: $100 flat
Story Length: 1,000–7,500 words
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response Time: within 3 months
Description: Non-themed, original speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, and science fiction.


Die by the Sword! (DMR Books)
https://dmrbooks.com/submissions
Payment: 1 cent a word
Story Length: 4,000–8,000 words
Deadline: Open between November 1–November 30, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Unthemed, original sword-and-sorcery short stories (i.e. generally combining swashbuckling adventure with supernatural elements).

Part of BUZZ BOOK EXPO next Sunday, Sept. 10

Dark Moon Books (and myself) are thrilled to be part of Buzz Book Expo this year! We’ll speak briefly about the press and chat with a few authors who are part of it. We'll be online there on Sunday, September 10 at 9:30 a.m. PST.

Thanks to  Somer Canon,  Mary SanGiovanni, and  Matt Wildasin for having us!

https://www.buzzbookexpo.com/

#buzzbooksexpo #ericjguignard #ericguignard #darkmoonbooks #bookstagram #horror #darkfiction #Booksofericjguignard

 

September, 2023 Dark Fiction Short Story Markets

HWA L.A.: For September, 2023

New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes

At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)

Nightmare Diaries
https://www.moonstruck-books.com/submissions
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: 500–10,000 words
Deadline: December 27, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Non-themed Dark Fiction short stories.


Feisty Felines and Other Fantastical Familiars
https://wordfirewestern.moksha.io/publication/6
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: Open between September 1 and October 15, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: By December 31, 2023
Description: Magical animal familiars and their humans: Original feline and or familiar stories and poetry in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, suspense, humor, and romance, appropriate for up to a “PG-13” audience. Felines and or familiars (of other types) must be central to the story.


Little Bastards: Too-Short Horror Stories Nobody Wants
https://www.hungryshadowpress.com/submissions-little-bastards
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–2,000 words
Deadline: Open between September 15 and September 30, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Unthemed horror stories (including all sub-genres, as well as fantasy and dark literary).


The Midnight Labyrinth (Grendel Press)
https://grendelpress.com/anthology-submissions/
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 2,500–7,000 words
Deadline: December 31, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: Generally within 2 months
Description: A tale delivered from a character who stepped through a door and found themselves someplace unexpected. On their journey, they will notice a book called Midnight Labyrinth. No requirement to read or interact with it; it just needs to appear. Genre-bending is welcome! Sci-fi, steampunk, horror, fantasy, etc.


Here There Be Dragons
https://www.hiraethsffh.com/here-there-be-dragons
Payment: 8 cents a word for the 1^st 3,00 words and 3 cents a word thereafter
Story Length: 3,000–6,000 words
Deadline: Open between October 1 and January 1, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: Two months
Description: Renderings of dragons in writing and art that capture the essence of these fascinating creatures.



***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of the Month”

Bourbon Penn (magazine)
https://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–7,500 words
Deadline: Intermittent. Reopens September 1, 2023
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.


Weird Horror (Undertow Publications)
https://undertowpublications.com/weird-horror-magazine
Payment: 1.5 cents a word
Story Length: 500–6,000 words
Deadline: Open between September 2 and September 16, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: Generally within 2 months
Description: Original (non-themed) horror and weird fiction short stories.


Underdog Press anthologies (3 separate markets, Similar guidelines)
https://theunderdogpress.com/pages/submission-guidelines

All 3 anthologies:
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: 3,500–12,000 words
Reprints?: No
Response: Within 3 months

1. The Underdogs Rise Vol. 2
Deadline: August 31, 2023
Description: Science fiction or fantasy stories about underdogs that take fantastical worlds or places but want characters to be the focus.

2. The Way of Worlds
Deadline: December 31, 2023
Description: Stories about outer space exploration and colonization.

3. Nightmares Before Bed
Deadline: January 31, 2023
Description: Unthemed horror stories

I'm now on Bluesky!

Just set up my account on Bluesky (which is unfortunately still invite-only). But if you're there, let's connect! I'm: @ericjguignard

https://bsky.app/profile/ericjguignard.bsky.social