Deep Cut Magazine

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Deep Cut publishes literary horror: dark fiction with teeth and an interior life, and scholarship that takes the genre as seriously as the genre takes us.

Country of Publication & Year Established

United States

Established in 2026

Publication Medium & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Published 4 x per year

AI Policy

Human-created work only; no AI use allowed

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Stories that cut deep and keep cutting after the last line. Quiet horror, folk horror, body horror, the weird, the gothic, grief wearing a ghost story's clothes. The mode matters less than the wound. We care about sentences. We care about people. The fear should come from somewhere true.
Send us the story another market called "beautifully written, but too dark," or "too literary for our readers." That one.

Dates:

Open to fiction submissions through 31 October 2026* (approx. 29 days from now).

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

Horror Open to all/most Subgenres

Lengths:

Short Story: 1,500 - 6,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Professional payment. Details: USD $0.08/word.

Submissions:

Method: Submission manager.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Scholarly articles on horror, broadly. Literature, film, television, games, popular culture, gender and sexuality, history, folklore, sound, fandom, the archive. If the object of study is horror, or horror is the lens, we want to read it. Interdisciplinary work is welcome, and so is work that treats a disreputable text with a straight face.

Dates:

Open to nonfiction submissions through 31 October 2026* (approx. 29 days from now).

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Article: 5,000 - 7,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Academic.

Topics:

Film/Television: See guidelines.
History: See guidelines.
Lifestyle: Games, See guidelines.
Literature/Books: See guidelines.
Sexuality/Gender: See guidelines.
Society/Culture: Pop culture, See guidelines.
Other: See guidelines.

Payment:

Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) Token payment. Details: USD $25.

Submissions:

Method: Submission manager.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Dates

Last Updated: 02 Oct 2026

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