Women in Horror Month, unsung heroes — @raforall.bsky.social @sadiehartmann.bsky.social @emilyhughes.bsky.social @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social @saratantlinger.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social @lunapress.bsky.social @marissavu.bsky.social @ecatherine.com Nicky Crowther, and many more. #WiHM
Submissions are open for The Cosmic Background's next issue: THROWBACK TECH. Edited by Jacob Baugher. Submissions are open through March 31.
Call for Submissions: Throwback Tech Guest Editor Jacob Baugher Haunted Super Nintendos, Tube TVs that show alternate realities, radios that receive broadcasts from the future or other worlds, GameBoy Colors that receive cosmic messages through Pokemon Yellow. We are looking for flash fiction about our technological pasts that affect our emotional presents and physical futures. Due March 31
Submissions are OPEN for our special issue theme:
THROWBACK TECH 🎥📺📻🎮📀📼🕹️👾
Edited by @prof-bogs.bsky.social
Let's do this. You have until March 31. It's a new year, let's celebrate with old tech.
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If you're reading for the Hugo Awards, please consider @thomasha.bsky.social 's "Uncertain Sons" in the Novelette category. Thank you. You can read the story here:
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
Attention writers! Missed our last call? Well, we've got another one coming. We're going to be doing a tribute issue to CL Moore! See the guidelines here: https://bit.ly/4iA6H8u
2026 Fiction Submissions Strange Horizons January 19 to 21
Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
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"Magazine submissions CLOSED Dec 1st - Dec 31st. Apex Magazine returns Jan. 1st"
Reminder that Apex Magazine is closed to submissions for the month of December! We look forward to reopening in the new year and reading more of your strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful fiction 🖤👽
It is currently Black Friday.
This shirt is also black, but it says 'ergot.'
If you buy this shirt, you will support ergot. writers.
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A story of mine was accepted for Sliced Up Press's Saturday Mourning Television anthology. Super excited about this anthology!
![No flinching: horror sales are climbing towards a record year
OCT 31, 2025 BY ALEX CALL
In 2024, NielsenIQ BookData's Horror subcategory recorded its best year to date, delivering just over £8m - so far in 2025, just over £6.8m has been spent on the category.
[photo of Stephen King]
In 2024, NielsenIQ BookData's Horror sub-category recorded its best year to date, delivering just over £8m - so far in 2025, just over £6.8m has been spent on the category. That is a rise of 22.2% on the same period last year, putting it on course for another record year, though it will fall just short of the £10m mark.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yhpcrxbxkp2nsnpno7ow3uw4/bafkreicsedb3pfcvn6wfiqohiem3h6ojwstlwnzoiroglf45uxzl6fwa6q)
No flinching: horror sales are climbing towards a record year OCT 31, 2025 BY ALEX CALL In 2024, NielsenIQ BookData's Horror subcategory recorded its best year to date, delivering just over £8m - so far in 2025, just over £6.8m has been spent on the category. [photo of Stephen King] In 2024, NielsenIQ BookData's Horror sub-category recorded its best year to date, delivering just over £8m - so far in 2025, just over £6.8m has been spent on the category. That is a rise of 22.2% on the same period last year, putting it on course for another record year, though it will fall just short of the £10m mark.
Tentacles will take over the wor—
*cough*
Good news!
Seventh part of the new haunted house follow-up series (follow-up to the HH series I wrote before "Occupant") just posted. Finishing this older series begun on Reddit to partly get back into groove of longer form writing.
#creepypasta
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There should be new Tales from the Crypt.
And the original series should be streamable somewhere.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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a hard truth:
it's not easy being undead
it takes a whole skeleton crew
and the creative force of some AMAZING writers
and above all it takes YOU
our readers
and hey, buy a coin if you can? keep us undead a little longer? 🙏🖤
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Did you know @nightmare-magazine.com turned 13 this month??!?
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Weird Horror is still open until filled. I've had 494 submissions. 102 are unread. 6 are being held. 3 have been accepted. It takes 2 minutes to read the guidelines. Please adhere to them:
www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/submit
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Space Unicorn!
PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb
With the wildly depressing news about public funding to public media being cut, it’s a good time to find your fave publicly funded station or show, and contribute what you can to them.
I’ve personally become a “Throughline Plus” monthly paying member.
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hey we're just out here trying to do some cool shit so if you're into that why not grab a book or three
you can find them all here:
PS we also publish two magazines you might have also heard of
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@fantasymagazine.bsky.social
you can support THOSE cool project in the 2nd post
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The Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize is a new initiative from our Artist in Residence (AIR) program. Cosmic Chronicles is a contest for emerging writers of all ages whose work explores questions of life, intelligence and consciousness in the universe. 🧪 🐡
For the full rules:
My short story "Visitation" will be appearing in the anthology Cabin, which releases tomorrow! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FF3HY1B...
A new submission period is coming July 1-7! Send us your best.
Full guidelines here: https://bit.ly/3FZcgMA
