Art card featuring a cartoon of a gigantic alligator clutching the Epcot Center at Walt Disney World. Text reads "Cult of the Gator God by Paul Lubaczewski"
Available now: CULT OF THE GATOR GOD by Paul Lubaczewski! A young environmental lawyer is sent to Florida and discovers Florida Man stories don’t tell the half of why the Sunshine State is so weird. Snap up your copy today! #WritingCommunity #Books madnessheart.press/product/cult...
Just a reminder as we head into the weekend that we’re open for submissions! Would love for all you talented horror writers to concoct a horror heist for our Don’t Go for the Vault horror anthology!
www.cateyepress.com/submissions
Whoops! Just accidentally posted a call for our food systems horror and Weird fiction anthology, open to submissions this September. 👀
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Art card: a leash and chain lie atop an unmade, blood-dappled bed with white sheets. Text reads "KENNEL by Garrett Cook"
WONDERLAND AWARD NOMINEE! Kennel by Garrett Cook: the kink world whispers of a man known as Daddy. Pup is a homeless femboy with only dreams to comfort them. When they meet, Pup is led into a strange world of drugs, eroticism, and degradation. #Books tinyurl.com/gckennel
I joined the Bay Area Book Festival's Shortcuts podcast to talk to Ashley Aaron about THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS and how excited I am to be participating in the festival for the second year in a row.
Watch at the link in comments.
#BookSky #BlackSky #BABF2026
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OUT NOW! Our debut title from Maddeningly Erotic Books, Thrust Into Battle by Dez Zuri! In the midst of a war against a horrifying cult Dhalius must learn to navigate the relationships, desires, and passions of his new mercenary company. #Erotica #Books madnessheart.press/product/thru...
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PREORDER NOW! Aggadah Try It, our Jewish fiction, religion, and mysticism imprint, presents THE BOOK OF BRILLIANCE: Selections from the Sefer ha-Bahir, one of the earliest texts of #Jewish #mysticism interpreted by renowned scholar Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis. madnessheart.press/product/the-bo
Pride in Horror submissions close at the end of this month. Open to all (yes, including allies!), PIHM is an annual event over at DHR, and we want you to take part! Just check the website for submission guidelines, and get your pieces to us!
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📢 Ongoing Call
Stygian Serials
Publisher: Stygian Media
📅 Ongoing submissions
💰 $30 CAD per installment + 50/50 royalties
📏 50k to 100k words
Genre: horror, dark fiction, paranormal.
Canadian authors only.
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#WritingCommunity #HorrorWriters #SerializedFiction
Art card featuring a study with an eyeball, skull, books, and a typewriter. Text reads "Almost Normal Horror by Christine Morgan"
From the author of "Trench Mouth" and "The Night Silver River Run Red," we're pleased to present an #anthology of twisted tales! Creepy kids, malicious mannequins... Welcome to what Christine Morgan considers ALMOST NORMAL #HORROR! #Books #Anthologies mybook.to/AlmostNormal
🌽 Taking Submissions
Sley House Publications Patreon May 2026 Window
📅 May 1-3, 2026
💰 $35 per accepted piece
📏 Up to 6,000 words
Theme: Tales from the Midwest
Speculative fiction, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, magical realism, and genre blends.
Details
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#WritingSubmissions
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OUT NOW! Out nonfiction imprint, Gutter Mystic Press, is pleased to present its debut book - Black Sunrise on Piss Earth: Nihilism, Fascism, and the 21st Century Occult by Charles R. Bernard. All proceeds donated to Food Not Bombs! #WritingCommunity #Books tinyurl.com/GMBSoPE
Art card: a face with dead, staring white eyes and long black hair framing it peers out from darkness and shadow. Text reads "Unsettling Horror in Anti-Bigotry Splatterpunk Environments by John Baltisberger"
Unsettling Horror in Anti-Bigotry Splatterpunk Environments is an essay and Big Bad generator resource for GMs by John Baltisberger. How do we use villains drawn from real-life horrors in a way that engages and unsettles players? Rage. #TTRPGs #IndieGames madnessheart.press/product/unse...
Art card featuring a dancer wound around a stripper's pole holding a severed leg. Text reads "PINS by Jessica McHugh" with the I in PINS represented by a stylized bowling pin.
Brand new: PINS by Jessica McHugh! With cash and weed dwindling Birdie does what any 21-year-old woman would: gets a job dancing at a strip club / bowling alley called PINS and, as murders occur, begins to question her sexuality. #Horror #WritingCommunity a.co/d/2b0zkgJ
🧠 Ongoing Submissions
What Sleeps Beneath
💰 Essays: $0.05/word
💰 Reviews: $0.03/word
📏 Essays: 1,200–2,500 words
📏 Reviews: 800–1,200 words
Horror criticism, analysis, and commentary.
Details
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Queer Your eReader is open for author submissions! There are limited spaces left for Fantasy, so if you write queer fantasy, don't delay! We're also looking for Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi and Mystery/Thriller - come join us for our book blast event in September
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Thanks for these great #HorrorWritersChat questions!
I just to highlight that my press will be opening for submissions for our Don’t Go for the Vault horror anthology starting April 15. Check out the guidelines below and let me know if you have any questions!
www.cateyepress.com/submissions
Art card in the style of a scuffed 1980s paperback: a priest wearing a cross and Roman collar extends hands filled with wriggling worms. Text reads "Squirming All The Way Up by Joey Powell"
Brand new: Squirming All The Way Up by Joey Powell! Two brothers reunite in rural Virginia to reconcile after their split years ago. For one, it's a chance to indoctrinate his brother into the Fellowship of the First Divine. #Horror #Books madnessheart.press/product/squi...
If you haven't heard the audiobook version of THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS, I'm sharing this @rbmediaco.bsky.social sample because Jasmin Walker's narration is straight fire. 🔥 🔥 🔥
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#BookSky
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Art card featuring a psychedelic side-view of a pregnant person surrounded by a typewriter, goggles, a butterfly, a centipede, and a talon. Text reads "The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey"
WONDERLAND AWARD WINNER FOR BEST COLLECTION! The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey, a curiosity disguised as a maternity guide! Replete with footnotes, Guffey explores the absurdity of postmodern motherhood. #Books a.co/d/1WFOsAQ
📢 Open Call for Speculative Horror
Beyond the Red Line Anthology
Editor: @robgrim.bsky.social
📅 Apr 1 to Jun 30
💰 $10 + D2D royalty share + contributor copy
📏 2k to 6k words
Theme: redlining, segregation, and marginalized communities facing supernatural horrors.
🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
Art card: A network of branches and lightning intertwine over a Solomonic seal. Text reads "Thrust Into Battle" with the logo for Maddeningly Erotic Books (bound wrists holding a heart) in one corner.
OUT NOW! Our debut title from Maddeningly Erotic Books, Thrust Into Battle by Dez Zuri! In the midst of a war against a horrifying cult Dhalius must learn to navigate the relationships, desires, and passions of his new mercenary company. #Erotica #Books madnessheart.press/product/thru...
✈️ Taking Submissions
Wish You Were Here
Horror anthology about vacations gone wrong.
📅 Deadline: May 1, 2026
💰 $30 CAD + contributor copy
📏 Up to 7,000 words
Details
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Art card featuring a goat-headed stage magician in a tuxedo and white gloves holding an Ace of Spades. Text reads "The Trick by Douglas Ford"
Out now: The Trick by 2022 Literary Nasties winner Douglas Ford! In his followup to Little Lugosi (A Love Story), Ford has a new trick up his sleeve: an occult tale of weird magic, dark fate, and the macabre use of human skin. #Horror #Books #IndiePub madnessheart.press/product/the-...
Happening TOMORROW! Join me!
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Art card featuring a hunched, mossy nature druid with curling antlers facing off against a glistening pig monster emitting toxic green sludge from nozzles on its chest. Text reads "Overgrowth: A BADASS Game By John Baltisberger and Simone Tammetta"
Overgrowth is now available on @drivethrurpg.com! Using our BADASS system, guide your twisted nature druid into battle as you destroy powerful, corrupted corporate polluters! "Save the Planet. Unleash Mayhem." - Nate Southard, Author and Game Developer #TTRPGs legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/492064
Art card featuring a corpse in a red hooded cloak with rotting jaws and one eye obscured by maggots. Text reads "Torture the Sinners! by Judith Sonnet"
Available now: pick up Judith Sonnet's new tale of bloody annihilation TORTURE THE SINNERS! While the dead walk the earth... the living shall suffer. #WritingCommunity #Horror #Books madnessheart.press/product/tort...
A colour graphic announcing the opening of the submission window to the GossamerWight Literary Magazine Anthology, "Uncanny Regimes."
#Submissions are open for our Quarter 2 #anthology, 'Uncanny Regimes': bit.ly/4sxk6CN. Closes Sunday 31 May.
#LiteraryMagazine #Writing #WritingCommunity #Microfiction #FlashFiction #ShortStory #Poetry #GraphicNarrative #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #Spectral #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy #Gothic
👁 The story that unsettled you when you wrote it. That's the one. Dark Descent micro-horror submissions are open.
Published writers.
Yearly anthology.
Link in bio.
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