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Fee-Free Horror Fiction

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Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Horror Fiction. Check back tomorrow for a new list.
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Baltimore Gothic Online Wildcard

We want stories that probe the psyche of fanatical preachers, hypocritical congregations, and lost souls grappling with guilt, divine judgment, or supernatural retribution. We want tales of fire-and-brimstone sermons masking dark secrets, backwoods revivals spiraling into chaos, and individuals wrestling with personal demons in the shadow of a judgmental deity. This issue should capture the eerie beauty of a South torn between divine grace and its own heart…
Genres: General, Horror.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 64.2 days.

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Creepy Podcast

Dare to venture into the darkly captivating world of the Creepy podcast, where a haunting ensemble of narrators lend their chilling voices to guide you through the most unsettling corners of the unknown.
Genres: Horror.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.02/word, with a max. of $100.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 17.5 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 18.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Crooked Spine

A small horror magazine out of nowhere in particular. Four issues a year (or more), in paperback and on Kindle. Themed reading periods. We publish what scares us.
Genres: Horror.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $20.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 9.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Dread Literary Review

The Dread Literary Review is an independent online literary magazine focused on displaying poems and fictions crafted around the themes of horror, mystery, and speculation.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 72.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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ergot.

ergot. is a literary website interested in furthering the innovatative and experimental tradition in horror.
Genres: Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $25.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 17.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Horrific Scribes Mature

Horrific Scribes is an expanding online archive of dark short fiction (and some poetry) by various authors who share the Horrific Scribblings imprint’s dedication to the provocative, scary, and strange. Most of the stories will have elements of horror, ranging from bloodless slow burns to raucous extreme romps, but related genres–dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, surrealist and other experimental writing with dark tendencies–are likely to appear…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $25 per story.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.9 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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MENACE Magazine Mature

M E N A C E publishes work that encapsulates the dark, the transgressive, and the gross. While not strictly a space for the speculative, M E N A C E seeks the “literary weird”—work that would be rejected from big literary magazines for being too genre…
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Neither Fish Nor Foul

We publish the odd, the not quite, the nearly and the almost because we believe in writing for sheer joy. Be bold, be playful, take risks. Edit it until it shines. And then send it to us so we can enjoy it too.
Genres: General, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 9.9 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 11.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Sci-Fi Lampoon Magazine

Send us your best fantasy, sci-fi, and horror themed humor. We’re looking for flash and short fiction, as well as high-res art, lampoon classifieds, and ads. We accept humorous speculative fiction, an umbrella genre encompassing narrative fiction with supernatural or futuristic elements. This includes, but is not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, superhero fiction, science fantasy, horror, utopian and dystopian fiction, supernatural fiction as well as combinations thereof. Humor. Satire…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $5.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 11.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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StarShipSofa

StarShipSofa is one of the top SF podcasts in the multiverse that delves into the world of SF. There are a number of shows that fall under the Sofa's wing.
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: $50.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 69.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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