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Literary Horror Fiction

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96th of October

No description available.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 10.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Carmina Magazine

Named after the Latin word for "songs" or "poems", Carmina Magazine offers a place where ancient mythology and modern creativity can come together as one. For generations, writers, artists, and creators have turned towards mythological traditions for inspiration. Carmina Magazine aims to showcase how ancient stories are still creatively relevant in the modern day, possessing a timeless ability to enthrall, enchant, and inspire long after their initial genesis.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 32.2 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Cast of Wonders

Cast of Wonders is the leading voice in young adult speculative short fiction, founded in 2011 by Graeme Dunlop and Barry J. Northern. It became a part of the Escape Artists family of podcasts in 2016 alongside genre siblings Escape Pod, PseudoPod and PodCastle. Cast of Wonders is a qualified market for the SFWA and the SCBWI…
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Western.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08/word for first publication rights. For reprints, $100 for stories, $20 for flash.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 88.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Club Plum Literary Journal

Club Plum is a house party. We play all the good music. The DJ dances and laughs and knows that today is yesterday, and today is tomorrow, and pain is forever, so we’ve got to crack out the joy and ride the beat. If you read or write flash fiction, prose poetry, hybrid works or creative nonfiction that cause the DJ to drop the needle, you are invited. If your words straddle realities without losing time, you can join the party. Knock politely on the door, but bang if you have to…
Genres: General, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 7.9 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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CommuterLit Halloween Contest Fees Wildcard

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Genres: General, Horror.
Lengths: Short Story.
Winner's Prize: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: CAD $100.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 24.8 days.

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Eclectica Magazine Fees

Eclectica was founded in October 1996 with the goal of providing a sterling quality literary magazine on the World Wide Web. At the time we struggled to find the net equivalent (in terms of content) of Harper's, New Yorker, Granta, The Atlantic, and other publications providing quality material for the appetites of a wide variety of demanding readers…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: to Pays occasionally, up to Professional. Details: 3 contributors per issue will receive a USD $50 award.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 64.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Hedge Apple Halloween Contest

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Genres: General, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Winner's Prize: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 23.2 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 14.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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House of Long Shadows

House of Long Shadows is a multi-genre magazine of Gothic fiction. Each weekly issue consists of one short story by a contemporary author along with one piece of new or classic art.
Genres: General, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Romance.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $10 for up to 10,000 words; $20 for more than 10,000 words.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.7 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Macabre Magazine

At Macabre Magazine: Where Horror Comes Home, we are dedicated to publishing the strongest voices in commercial horror fiction while upholding the values of literary citizenship. We champion short stories and flash fiction that thrill, unsettle, and endure.
Genres: General, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 54.3 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 26.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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No Cause For Alarm Anthology

Write us a story in which catastrophe has been absorbed into the fabric of ordinary life. Not catastrophe as plot, but as background. The flooding that is mildly inconvenient. The extinction that registers as admin. The end of something vast, received as nothing in particular. We want fiction that has internalised the flatness, the shrug, the mild continuing-on.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: GBP £10 flat fee for ≤ 1,000 words; £25 for over 1,000 words.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 59.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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