Back Roads

This project is believed to be defunct. (October 2007)

About

People fear the alien, the unknown, the strangeness that lurks in the unexplored woods… or down a two-rut roadway well away from the interstate. Back Roads is a fiction quarterly that aims to find out what lies along those untraveled byways, where civilization is a thin veneer stretched tightly across the hidden, savage face of man. Back Roads is rural horror. The 'zine concerns itself with the same kind of material that drives The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and continues to frighten audiences in films like Wolf Creek and Hostel. Back Roads is horror off the highway, where the normal rules do not apply.

Country of Publication

United States

Publication Medium & Frequency

Print Publication Print Publication: Published 4 x per year

Fiction Believed Defunct

Audience:

Unknown

Genres:

Horror

Lengths:

Short Story: 1,500 - 7,500 words.
Novelette: 7,500 - 10,000 words.

Styles:

Unknown

Topics:

None found.

Payment:

No monetary payment to Unknown payment Pays occasionally, unknown rates.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Last Updated: 22 May 2026