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March 4, 2017

Open Submissions Call for CHTHONIC: Weird Tales of Inner Earth

“The nethermost caverns … are not for the fathoming of eyes that see; for their marvels are strange and terrific … out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. Great holes secretly are digged where earth’s pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Festival

We’re excited to open submissions to our sixth anthology…

CHTHONIC

The full title of this book wil...

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Published on March 04, 2017 16:28

February 13, 2017

‘A Breath from the Sky’ ToC Announcement

Migraineers. Hello. It has been a while since our last post. Indeed, said post was the announcement of the open submissions call for A Breath from the Sky: Unusual Stories of Possession, lessee, oh … six months ago. Ah. That long? Yes. Terribly sorry, but we’ve been actually busy with … A Breath from the Sky: Unusual Stories of Possession! Ta da!

It’s true, the last few months have been hectic. We received here at MMP HQ well over 500 submissions for review and without going too deep into the...

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Published on February 13, 2017 23:22

July 24, 2016

Open Submission Call for the 2017 MMP Anthology

submissions graphicMartian Migraine Press is now open to submissions
for our fifth annual anthology…

A Breath from the Sky

The full title of this book will be
A Breath from the Sky: Unusual Stories of Possession

As long-time readers and authors involved with MMP know, our annual anthology project takes a seed story or concept from the history of Weird Fiction and allows that seed to grow in strange and interesting new ways. We encourage our authors to unshackle themselves from the standard tropes that can weig...

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Published on July 24, 2016 00:01

July 19, 2016

An Embarrassment of Lovecraftian Goodies

Ladies and ghouls, Migraineers of all ages, shapes, and oneiric frequencies: is this not a glorious time to be alive? Do we, as consumers of weird media, not paddle, nay, SWIM, in a deep lake, no! pounding cataract, wait! a vast boiling sea of cosmic horror goodness? Can any age previous to ours come close to the variety and sheer creative joi de vivre of the current crop of weird fictioneers producing films, audio dramas, animations, comics, and lest we forget, actual books? Filled with read...

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Published on July 19, 2016 22:48

July 2, 2016

Some Clues to the Theme of 2017s MMP Anthology

Mostly we’ve been posting these to the MMP Facebook page. Little visual hints that point to the theme for the upcoming anthology (which we will be announcing fairly soon) but social media being what it is (temporary, transitory, and generally without memory, even for short periods) we’ve decided to place all the hints so far here on the website, in order that a more gestalt based understanding of the theme may be utilized by the intelligent Migraineer. You know who we are, and you know what w...

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Published on July 02, 2016 22:17

April 4, 2016

Cthulhusattva Pre-Order Contest

Ladies and ghouCthulhusattva_3D_cover_smallls and gentle-entities, Migraineers of all shapes sizes and dimensional vibrations, we are happy to announce to all that the Pre-Order Contest for the MMP 2016 anthology project, Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis, is officially open! Below you’ll find 3 OPTIONS for delivery of this topical tome of eldritch enlightenment, all of which include shipping & handling AND offer the book to you at a reduced price of $13.99 (regular retail will be $16.99 but this includes the ph...

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Published on April 04, 2016 22:20

Cthulhusattva Full Cover Reveal

The artwork? Stunning, distinctive, strangely thrilling: a Mythos take on The Devil trump card of the traditional tarot. A mystical Cthulhu figure, wings spread and seated comfortably, haloed in a sickly golden glow, a ghastly divine energy bleeding out from the gaps in its monstrous form. One wrist is chained, the other free and raised in some unspeakable benediction. The recipients of this blessing (a woman, a man) kneel below, naked, but uncowed, gazing with unflinching eyes upon this visi...

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Published on April 04, 2016 00:19

March 14, 2016

Cthulhusattva ToC Announcement

Is there wisdom in insanity? Enlightenment in blackest despair? Higher consciousness in the depths of chaos? These are the questions we asked of authors who submitted stories to the Martian Migraine Press anthology for 2016. And we here at MMP, along with project editor Scott R Jones, are thrilled to announce that the book (after many months of work, and nearly 400 stories read) is finally complete. With cover art by Alix Branwyn, and for the first time in print the groundbreaking novella by...

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Published on March 14, 2016 22:20

January 17, 2016

CTHULHUSATTVA Update and Some Clarifications

Cthulhusattva cover art (detail)A good Sunday evening to all! Scott Jones here, editor of the upcoming Martian Migraine Press anthology, Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis. It’s been some time since any updates were posted here (what with Christmas, and day jobs, and so on… you know the drill) and for that I apologize. Work has been progressing on the annual anthology for 2016, and the following is a brief post to bring Migraineers up to speed on that progress. Thank you all (readers, authors, artists, family and frie...

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Published on January 17, 2016 22:42

August 31, 2015

Mythos Migraines! A NecronomiCon Providence Review

Well, if you’ve been following me or Martian Migraine Press on Facebook and Twitter over the last month, you’ve watched as I worked myself into a lather over the impending visit I made to Providence, Rhode Island, “birthplace of the Weird” and of course the home of Lovecraft, the “Copernicus of Cosmic Horror”, and so on and so on, yadda yadda. In the weeks prior to actually stepping onto the plane, I probably overshared about my mega-gut-butterflies at sitting on a ‘Religion & Lovecraft’ pane...

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Published on August 31, 2015 23:41