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Note: These are the results of a previous Smart Search of the Day. Today's Smart Search is Literary Flash Fiction.

This Smart Search of the Day is: Horror Novelettes.

The Apparatus Almanac: Gizmology & Technomancy [JayHenge Publishing]

Are you an architect of the arcane, a fabricator of futuristic fables, or a sorcerer of the silicon? We are seeking speculative fiction stories that meld the mechanical with the mystical, where devices not only drive the narrative but are imbued with a spark of the extraordinary. We want tales that push the boundaries of imagination, where gizmos and gadgets transcend their wires and circuits to become entities of enchantment and wonder.…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) Token. Details: USD $5/1,000 words.
Avg. Response: 39.6 days.
Acceptances: 36.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

Bewildering Stories

Bewildering Stories — known informally as “BwS” — is a weekly electronic publication featuring speculative fiction as well as non-fiction, namely poetry, articles, essays, reviews, and art. What does “Bewildering” really mean? One thing it does not mean: “befuddling.” We do not like literature that is meaningless or self-contradictory or that asks the readers to do the writing for the author. What “Bewildering” does mean is “unconventional” and “thought-provoking.…
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 17.9 days.
Acceptances: 43.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Fiction Desk Charges Fees

The Fiction Desk publishes a regular series of short story anthologies, featuring new fiction from both established and debut authors. Our collections showcase some of the best new writing from the UK and around the world, and celebrate the sheer pleasure of a well-written short story. The series also features occasional anthologies of short fiction with a supernatural element, under the New Ghost Stories title.
Genres: Open to all/most Genres, including General, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Semi-pro to Professional. Details: GBP £25 per thousand words.
Avg. Response: 36.6 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in fiction.

The Future Fire

The Future Fire (TFF) is our flagship online magazine, always open to submissions of beautiful and useful short stories and poetry in Social-political and Progressive Speculative Fiction, Feminist SF, Queer SF, Eco SF, World SF and Cyberpunk, and an experiment in and celebration of new writing.
Genres: Open to all/most Genres, including General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) to Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $10 for flash fiction; $20 for short stories.
Avg. Response: 36.6 days.
Acceptances: 2.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

Gwyllion: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Wales

Gwyllion is a non-profit, bi-annual genre fiction semiprozine which focuses on publishing science fiction, fantasy and horror from Wales. We want low fantasy, space opera, pulp fiction, swords-and-sorcery tales of mystery and adventure. We want your weird fiction, your eldritch horror, your wuxia, and your steampunk. Give us cryptids, give us aliens, give us vampires. If you think ‘lowbrow’ is an insult then we are not the right magazine for you.…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) to Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) Token to Semi-pro. Details: GBP £15.
Avg. Response: 8.2 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in fiction.

House of Long Shadows Fledgling Wildcard

Trad Gothic. You know it when you see it. Horror is the most famously Gothic genre—and our number one aesthetic touchstone is horror cinema in the Corman–Hammer vein—but we’re also open to family dramas, murder mysteries, and moody romance. Period or quasi-period settings (17th century through 1930s) are preferred, but accurate detail is not a priority. We are not a market for “historical fiction” per se.
Genres: General, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Romance.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Unknown payment Unknown. Details: Equal shares of the net subscription revenues of the month published.

Just Keep Up Magazine Fledgling

Just Keep Up Magazine is a new magazine started in late 2024. We are devoted to science fiction and horror. We also feature poetry.
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Token to Professional. Details: USD $10.
Avg. Response: 13.0 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in fiction.

Mysterion

The Christian faith is filled with mystery, from the Trinity and the Incarnation to the smaller mysteries found in some of the strange and unexplained passages of the Bible: Behemoth and Leviathan, nephilim and seraphim, heroes and giants and more. There is no reason for fiction engaging with Christianity to be more tidy and theologically precise than the faith itself. Mysterion is an ezine of Christian-themed speculative fiction edited and published by the husband and wife team of Donald S.…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Professional. Details: USD $0.08/word for originals; $0.04/word for reprints.
Avg. Response: 78.7 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in fiction.

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine

Penumbric is an online magazine dedicated to riding that ever-changing edge of new and original fiction and art and sound and everything into tomorrow.…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Occasionally pays royalties Token to Professional. Occasionally pays royalties. Details: USD $10, plus royalties.
Avg. Response: 26.2 days.
Acceptances: 5.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

Space and Time Magazine [Yuriko Publishing]

Space and Time Magazine has been putting the best speculative fiction and poetry in ink for over five decades—a must-read for true fans of the strange and unusual. Readers can look forward to stories from the future stars of genre fiction intermingled with unique tales from pros like Jessica A.…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.01/word.
Avg. Response: 31.3 days.
Acceptances: 5.5% of fiction submissions accepted.