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

Coming soon from @madnessheartpress.bsky.social: my bizarro sci-fi horror novella, PALLBEARERS! Cover by the incomparable @lukespoonerartist.bsky.social #indiebooks #sff #horror

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...

We are open to submissions by the way! $10/poem and $10/story. Submissions have to in some way incorporate horror and/or sci-fi. Submit some of your own work but also tell a friend!

OUT NOW from Michael Panush, MITZVAH MACABRE is a story inspired by a key bit of Jewish folklore: the belief that the spirits of dead emerge from the cemetery, enter the synagogue, and conduct their own services. #Books #WritingCommunity madnessheart.press/product/mitzva

Portals #1 update! This call will be CLOSING to submissions on August 16th at 11:59 pm Eastern… unless we hit the cap before then, so don’t wait! Last chance to send us your darkest, strangest, queerest horror! 🖤 Current subs: Fiction: 121/150 Poetry: 44/100 hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...

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Open NOW! Calling all trans and nonbinary authors: send us your speculative horror!!! Rates: 8 cents/word for fiction, $50/poem. GUIDELINES and the submissions portal: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/3 (Plus, more details in the quoted thread!)

Available now! The Dollhouse is an audacious homage to the master of the Victorian ghost story, M.R. James, by the Godfather of #extremehorror, Edward Lee. Pick it up in digital or physical formats, or on Audible! #Horror #Books tinyurl.com/ELDollhouse

Found this anthology who is taking submissions for cosmic horror short stories. Paying market. Expected to publish June 2027. blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth... #writesky

Cosmic Horror Short Stories | Call for Submissions

We are delighted to announce a new call for submissions which is now open! We're looking for short stories for our latest anthology. Full guidelines below.

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New! OUR SARNATH is a horror tale by the absolute master, Judith Sonnet. In it, two academics come to a cabin to perform “the only ritual that works.” Cold, weird, tender, and trippy, OUR SARNATH is the romantic horror odyssey you’ve been waiting for! tinyurl.com/bm237s64

The portal opens tomorrow… are you ready? We want horror stories up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints. We pay $0.08 per word. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you keep us informed. More details on our website (below).

Douglas Ford spins a tale of twisted love and unnatural birth in"Little Lugosi," available now! “'Little Lugosi' is probably the sickest leech story ever written, but the premise delivers so much more." -Stoker Award Winner Michael Arnzen #Horror #Books getbook.at/littlelugosi

ICYMI: Our call for entries for Weird Sisters, our trilogy of books interrogating the figure of the witch in film / television, closes tomorrow, 31 July! Full details for witchy writers: holpublishing.com/contact! 🖤 #booksky #horrorsky #filmsky #horror #witch #writers #practicalmagic #submissions

OUT NOW! John Baltisberger's Wonderland Award winning psychedelic murder memoir, "All I Want Is to Take Shrooms and Listen to the Color of Nazi Screams," is now available in a new, DELUXE EDITION! Make sure to pick yours up today! #Books madnessheart.press/product/all-...

After giving it some thought, I figure there's never going to be a perfect time to open for horror/Weird fic collection submissions. Why not now while my job is still in a slow period? If you're BIPOC and/or queer, I'm especially interested in reading your work: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Horror and Weird Fiction COllections Submission Call (OPEN NOW UNTIL FILLED) Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. The submi…

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Calling writers: Crooked Spine is accepting Novellas up to 40,000 words. Closes September 20. Looking for horror novellas. Winner gets $300 USD and royalties. horrortree.com/taking-submi...

Wonderland Award nominee! PLAYS/Hauntologies is #horror author Ben Arzate's first full-length foray into works for the stage. Featuring cover art by Suguru Tanaka, this release will please fans of Samuel Beckett and Antonin Artaud! #Horror #Books #Plays tinyurl.com/bdfnwum8

Carnage House (Fiction; Horror; pays) opened to fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Re-opening: Carnage House

Carnage House (Fiction; Horror; pays) opened to fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com/magazine/carnage-house-39500 #amwriting

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NEW! Truck Off and Die is a double feature flipbook from Bizarro mastermind Riley Odell! Flip it one way and enjoy TRUCK OFF AND DIE - reverse it, and enjoy MY WEIRD NIGHTMARE BABY! Amaze your friends with the latest in interactive media technology! madnessheart.press/product/truc...

Exoplanet Magazine is open for speculative fiction submissions! 🚀 Science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, weird fiction, and hybrid fiction 📖 Up to 5,000 words 💰 $0.01/word (minimum $5) 📅 September 1–15, 2026 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From: @exoplanetmag.com #AmWriting

We open in ONE WEEK for novel manuscript submissions! We're most interested in horror thrillers & noir/neo-noir this period; we're open to horror, thrillers, & crime noir in general. Find our full submission guidelines here: links.ruadanbooks.com/Novels26 #WriterSky #writingcommunity #AuthorSky

Out now! MERCY KILLS by Jeff Oliver, author of SCAPEGOATED! In a dystopian 2034, teenage assassin Mercy Gorrison sparks a revolution that threatens to take down a fascist government and their plot to enslave the sick. #Horror #Books tinyurl.com/MercyKills

T-minus 9 days until we are open for general submissions. August 1st! Mark it! pseudopod.org/submissions/

Submissions | PseudoPod

PseudoPod wants to find quality fiction to feed our listeners. If you’re a writer with a short horror story that you’d like to hear narrated by one of our talented performers, we’d like to see it.

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Presenting Edward Lee's OUIJA SLUMBER PARTY, a new tale of sexy terror by the undisputed master of the craft! A trio of women strip down for a seance session in an abandoned house with a morbid history. What could go wrong? #Horror #WritingCommunity madnessheart.press/product/ouij...

Calling writers: Zombie World (Flame Tree Publishing) is taking submissions of unique zombie stories from around the world. Closes August 9, 2026.Payment is 8¢/word (original stories); 6¢/word (reprints) Word Count is 2000–4000, no poetry (😞) horrortree.com/taking-submi...

PAID submissions to Disability & Horror zine www.instagram.com/p/DbJXwLPCnS...

LookDeeper Zine on Instagram: "Submissions and pitches are open for issue 05!!🖤 Send us your work on the horrors disabled people live through that non-disabled people couldn’t begin to comprehend. In...

238 likes, 6 comments - lookdeeperzine on July 23, 2026: "Submissions and pitches are open for issue 05!!🖤 Send us your work on the horrors disabled people live through that non-disabled people could...

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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...

The Submission Pit is accepting speculative fiction submissions! 📖 Science fiction, fantasy & horror 💰 $100 USD prize + 50% of monthly paid subscriber revenue 📅 August 1–31, 2026 ✍️ 6–10,000 words horrortree.com/taking-submi... #AmWriting #SpeculativeFiction

OUT NOW from Michael Panush, MITZVAH MACABRE is a story inspired by a key bit of Jewish folklore: the belief that the spirits of dead emerge from the cemetery, enter the synagogue, and conduct their own services. #Books #WritingCommunity madnessheart.press/product/mitzva

I'm excited to discuss innovation in haunted house creation on this upcoming all-virtual TBRCon panel alongside some amazing speculative fiction authors. Details: fanfiaddict.com/tbrcon2026/ @tbrcon.bsky.social #thecurseofhestergardens #tamikathompson #horrorsky #booksky

AVAILABLE NOW! Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by @wrathjw.bsky.social: Plagued by hallucinations, reality and nightmares coexist in Mika’s mind, intertwined with one another. Malign spirits can look like dead friends... and Mika has seen them. #Horror #Books tinyurl.com/WJWEveryone