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Literary Horror Fiction

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Blue Earth Review

Blue Earth Review is Minnesota State University, Mankato’s graduate-run literary magazine. Before being wholly revamped and renamed in 2003, BER was published under such titles as Medicine Jug, The Muse, and Minnesota River Review. Our contributors have included folks such as Steve Almond, Nicelle Davis, Alex Lemon, Jennifer Whitaker, Kristen N. Arnett, and Charles Baxter…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 42.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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We publish fiction and poetry.
Genres: General, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $25 per piece.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 94.9 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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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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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. 9.0 days.
Acceptances: Average. 9.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Infinity Wanderers is a new magazine dedicated to promoting alternate history and the associated genres of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Historical Fiction and Fantasy. In addition we aim for between 1/3 and 1/2 real history and writers of Historical features are welcome to submit.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize Fees

The Kurt Vonnegut Prize is an annual fiction competition intended to recognize the finest speculative fiction, which can include, but is not limited to, work influenced by the postmodern science-fiction of Kurt Vonnegut. We love Vonnegut’s dark humor, but please avoid mere imitation. We welcome all forms of previously unpublished fiction—one story per submission…
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novel Excerpt.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $1,000 prize.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 118.3 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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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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The Rumpus

The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers our readers may already know and love. We want to bring new perspectives into the conversation that will make us all look deeper…
Genres: General, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $500.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 45.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Vestal Review

Launched in 2000, Vestal Review is the longest-running flash fiction magazine on Earth—and perhaps the Milky Way. Past contributors include Steve Almond, Aimee Bender, Sam Lipsyte, Judith Cofer, Robert Boswell, Bruce Holland Rogers, Stuart Dybek, Robert Olen Butler, Pamela Painter, and many others. Our stories have been reprinted in numerous anthologies and selected for Wigleaf Top 50 many times. We encourage underrepresented writers to send us their stories…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $75.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 12.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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