Deadline: June 30th, 2022 Payment: $5 or a contributor’s copy Theme: Show us your spin or retelling of old tales; create some new ones; tell us of your childhood—or current—obsessions. A Literary Journal with Some Art and Analysis Thrown in for Good...

Payment: $25 Theme: Stories that further the innovative and experimental tradition in horror. ergot. is a literary website interested in furthering the innovative and experimental tradition in horror.   We seek fiction and hybrid work under 10k words...

Please welcome author Lee Murray to our little haunted hollow at the Horror Tree. She is a stellar author who is as skilled in the art of short fiction as she is novels. Recent works to have gained acclaim are the anthology: ‘Black Cranes: Tales of U...

Deadline: June 1st, 2022 Payment: US: $40 and a contributor’s copy, non-US: $45 Theme: Cosmic/eldritch horror, based on the prompt below. Basically, stories that take place in or about Brackish Harbor Welcome to Brackish Harbor. Settled in the 1920s...

Deadline: May 31st, 2022 Payment: $15 CAD upon publication ($10 for reprints) Theme: Exhaustion: Limited Reserves Note: Reprints Welcome “Exhaustion: Limited Reserves” Chapbook – Poetry and Flash Fiction Deadline: May 31, 2022 A common human experien...

This is post 3 of 9 in the series “The Hammerlock of the Gods” The Hammerlock of the Gods – Pro Wrestling and Horror – Introduction The Hammerlock of the Gods – Pro Wrestling and Horror – Carnivals and the counter culture The Hammerlock of the Gods –...

Deadline: June 30th, 2022 Payment: $0.04/word and a contributor’s copy Theme: Dark Speculative fiction which combine humor and something from the Cthulhu Mythos. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LOLcraft: An Compendium of Eldritch Humor “Comedy and horror are o...

Deadline: July 15th, 2022 Payment: $20 per story Theme: Electric Spec prefers science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre, but we’re willing to push the limits of traditional forms of these genres. submissions at electricspec (dot) comPlease don’t quer...

BUILD A BETTER WORLD, OR NOT… By Steven L. Shrewsbury “What world did you use in your new fantasy novel KILLER OF GIANTS?” Well, this one. That’s my usual smarty-pants answer to such a question. I follow it up with saying that in the book it is set i...