I’m so excited for this!
ANNOUNCING: I’m posting contributors in blocks of five, in order of Table of Contents, for the line-up of next year’s anthology volume, +Horror Library+ Volume 9, to be published by Dark Moon Books on February 3, 2026!
DAY 5 OF 6 (fifth
block of five):
“It Moves On” by Colin
Leonard
“Dear Good, Kind Soul” by Delilah S. Dawson
“Mask Off” by KC Grifant
“Kernel of the Flesh” by Dare Segun
Falowo
“A Deeper Nothing” by Dexter McLeod
I’m so excited for this!
ANNOUNCING: I’m posting contributors in blocks of five, in order of Table of Contents, for the line-up of next year’s anthology volume, +Horror Library+ Volume 9, to be published by Dark Moon Books on February 3, 2026!
DAY 4 OF 6 (fourth block of five):
“Head Over Heels” by Ana Nelson
“I Don’t Wanna Go to Mexico No More, More,
More” by Gabriela Santiago
“The Drowning Kind” by Jennifer
Lesh Fleck
“The Hearing Booth” by Tom Johnstone
“The Seller of Cast-off Destinies” by Michael
Kelly
I’m so excited for this!
ANNOUNCING: I’m posting
contributors in blocks of five, in order of Table of Contents, for the line-up
of next year’s anthology volume, +Horror Library+ Volume 9, to be published by Dark Moon Books on February 3, 2026!
DAY 3 OF 6 (third block of five):
“The Luckiest Man” by Gina
Easton
“Accounting for Eternity” by Charles Wilkinson
“Jane” by Garick
Cooke
“In the Evening Red” by Brian Evenson
“Elizabeth by the Pea Patch” by J. Edward Gregal
“False Witness” by Charlie Hughes
“Eyes Without Their Lids” by Jo Kaplan
“Dumb Insolence” by J. L.
Rifkin
“The Edge of the Earth” by Iain Rowan
“Before His Time” by Bentley Little
I’m so excited for this!
ANNOUNCING: I’m posting contributors
in blocks of five, in order of Table of Contents, for the line-up of next year’s
anthology volume, +Horror Library+ Volume 9, to be published by Dark Moon Books on
February 3, 2026!
DAY 1 OF 6 (first five):
“Afterimage” by R. E. Rule
“Baghdad, 1259” by Tanvir
Ahmed
“Found You” by Poppy Z.
Brite
“Third-Floor Windows” by LH Michael
“The Second Candlestick” by Nigel Brown
My latest newsletter post is live! Now via Substack. “Strange and Dreaming Days with Eric J. Guignard” Dec., 2025 edition. Books! News! Pics!
https://ericjguignard.substack.com/p/strange-and-dreaming-days-with-eric
Book Worms Horror Zine, Issue #10:
Apocalyptic Horror
https://rsaintclaire.com/2025/11/03/call-for-submissions-4/
Payment: 8 cents a word ($25
flat for poetry)
Story Length: up to 1,500 words
Deadline: January 10, 2026
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Original, non-themed
short stories of end-of-the-world dread, AKA: Apocalyptic Horror. We’re looking
for stories and poetry that dive into nuclear winters, climate catastrophes,
algorithmic uprisings, techno-anarchy, or whatever fresh brand of apocalypse
your twisted imagination can conjure.
**Note: This publisher accepts submissions ONLY via postal
mail
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 December 1
and December 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.)
Adventitious e-Magazine
https://www.adventitious.net/submission-guidelines/
Payment: 8 cents a word (1
cent/word for reprints)
Story Length: up to 17,000 words
Deadline: Open between December 1
and December 5, 2025
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Within 8 weeks
Description: Stories that offer a
sense of wonder through their language, characters, plots, or all of the above.
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and all speculative/surreal will always be welcomed, but we’re
also happy with stories that shock and delight right here on this plane of
existence.
Night Shades Magazine
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
Payment: $65 flat rate
Story Length: up to 500 words
Opens: December 26, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Non-themed, original
speculative fiction. All types of Fantasy/ Science Fiction/ Horror. “Something
genuine and strange, that takes big swings with language, and that takes
advantage of the short form rather than strains against it.”
Rotting Leaf Magazine
https://www.briefecology.com/p/annoucement-rotting-leaf-magazine
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,500 words
Deadline: Open between December 1
and December 6, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Short stories of
Eco-Fiction (broadly defined), including: Eco-Horror; Eco-Gothic/Anti-gothic; Haunted/Unhaunted
Landscapes; Transcorporeality; Eco-Surrealism/Existentialism/Absurdism; etc.)
https://bcubedpress.moksha.io/publication/yes-this-is-the-more-alternative-liberties-portal-you-are-seeking/guidelines
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: 1,500–3,000 words
(soft range)
Deadline: December 20, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Stories, poems, and
essays about the potential consequences of the 2024 Presidential election told
in current, near future or even similar situations where such a leader is in
power; stories of people who fight the change, endure the change, or embrace
the change. But key word is People. I want the stories to be about the People
(an maybe the animal liberation front in Springfield or a couch salesmen in
Ohio who knows things.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://blackbeaconbooks.blogspot.com/p/submissions.html
Payment: $30 flat rate for
original stories ($10 flat for reprints)
Story Length: 3,000–9,000 words
(soft range)
Deadline: December 31, 2025
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Does not send rejections.
Acceptances sent by January 15, 2026.
Description: Non-themed quality
horror short stories.
https://drekdeathanddoom.com/submissions/
Payment: between 1–4 cents a
word
Story Length: 2,000–6,000 words
Deadline: December 25, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Original Valentine’s
Day Horror Stories Wanted (no horror comedy).
