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July 13, 2021
Happy GLOBAL RELEASE DAY today to +HORROR LIBRARY+ Anthologies!
Happy GLOBAL RELEASE DAY today! All volumes of +HORROR LIBRARY+ anthologies are re-released today, July 13, from myself and Dark Moon Books!
These volumes have been, essentially, “digitally remastered”—they’re reedited, cleaned-up, given new interiors, new covers, the works, all for purposes of rebranding and consistency under new publisher, Dark Moon Books.
Open Call submission for Volume #7 to be announced soon!
Stay tuned for HORROR LIBRARY week, beginning next week!
Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and “Best of Vol. 1–5” available now through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, IndieBound, BookShop, end elsewhere.
More info here! http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/horror_library.html
July 8, 2021
Brief Update for: PROFESSOR CHARLATAN BARDOT’S TRAVEL ANTHOLOGY TO THE MOST (FICTIONAL) HAUNTED BUILDINGS IN THE WEIRD, WILD WORLD
This just in! Major progress in my upcoming book, PROFESSOR CHARLATAN BARDOT’S TRAVEL ANTHOLOGY TO THE MOST (FICTIONAL) HAUNTED BUILDINGS IN THE WEIRD, WILD WORLD…
I just completed the section of haunted building tales set in AFRICA!
Only one more section of the globe to finish, being LATIN AMERICA, and then “la fin”!
#update #ghosts #hauntings #CharlatanBardot
June 28, 2021
June, 2021 Dark Fiction Short Story Markets
HWA L.A.: June, 2021
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Vastarien: A Literary Journal
https://vastarien-journal.com/submission-guidelines
Payment: 6 cents a word)
Story Length: Nonfiction 2,000–7,500 words; Fiction 750–6,000 words
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: Two months
Description: Scholarly and/or critical articles pertaining to Ligotti or associated authors (see below) or the kind of thematic and topical issues in which we’re interested; OR: Original fiction or poetry or art inspired by Ligottian and/or related themes.
https://uncharted.submittable.com/submit
Payment: $200 flat
Story Length: 1,000–5,000 words
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: Yes (but no pay)
Response: Three months
Description: Any type of genre story: Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction, Crime, Fantasy, etc.
Zooscape
https://zooscape-zine.com/guidelines
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: Yes (up to 10,000 words, but pays only $20 flat)
Response: Two months
Description: All stories must be furry. That means an anthropomorphic animal figure should be significantly featured in your story — it could be anthropomorphic in body or only intelligence… Any type of furry fiction from secret life of animals to fox in Starbucks. We love science-fiction with animal-like aliens and fantasy with talking dragons, unicorns, or witch familiars.
Fireside Fiction Company
https://firesidefiction.com/submissions
Payment: 12.5 cents a word
Story Length: up to 3,000 words (flash fiction preferred)
Deadline: Open only July 5–July 11, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: 1 month after close of submission period
Description: To publish great speculative fiction storytelling, regardless of genre (ex. Neil Gaiman); unique voices.
Diabolical Plots ezine
http://www.diabolicalplots.com/guidelines
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: 3,500 or less
Deadline: Open between August 1–August 14, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response Time: One month
Description: Science fiction, fantasy, and horror (everything must have speculative element, even horror), including mixed-genres. (This is the same founders of the market submission tracker, “The Grinder.”)
https://laksamedia.com/life-beyond-us-submission-guidelines/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–5,000 words
Deadline: Open between July 1–August 19, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: October 15, 2021
Description: Thoughtful short stories exploring the unknown: life forms we’re not familiar with on Earth (from extreme environments, to those right beneath our noses) and beyond our planet; strange life’s discovery, peculiarities, and the ethical questions arising from these. Alien life does not have to feature there; consider exploring the implications of finding a potentially life-bearing environment in space, trying to answer a burning question about habitability, or exploring the far past or future of life in the universe. If alien life does appear—microbial to huge, ‘stupid’ to ‘intelligent,’ perceptions similar to ours or very different—the perspective doesn’t have to be human.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of the Month”
https://www.mythicmag.com/p/submissions.html
Payment: 4 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–6,000 words
Deadline: July 31, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown (estimated 3 months)
Description: Diverse sci-fi and fantasy fiction. All types and sub-genres, particularly views of the future and realms of the fantastic that don't necessarily involve quasi-medieval settings.
https://www.thedreadmachine.com/submit/
Payment: 3 cents a word (reprints at 1 cent/ word)
Story Length: up to 5,000 words (reprints up to 10,000 words)
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Two months
Description: Futuristic dark fiction, speculative fiction, cyberpunk, slipstream, and science fiction.
June 21, 2021
New story out today in UNREAL MAGAZINE! -- “Down Amongst the Graves, Where Yon Family Lay Eternal”
“Down Amongst the Graves, Where Yon Family Lay Eternal” is a quiet, cosmic story of death and perpetuity, a sort of continuum for mankind since the beginning of origination, wrapped in a genealogy study.
https://unrealmag.com/2021/06/20/down-amongst-the-graves-where-yon-family-lay-eternal/
May 31, 2021
May, 2021 Dark Fiction Short Story Markets
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Mermaids Monthly
https://mermaidsmonthly.com/submissions/
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: June 12, 2021
Reprints?: Yes (paid at 1 cent/ word)
Response: 2 weeks after close of submissions
Description: Everything should in some way relate to merfolk. We are loose about how you want to define that, and we will consider other aquatic fantastical creatures to be on theme. Yes, kelpies and selkies and kappas and nagas are all okay! We would love to see creative interpretations of the theme. Also interested in non-fiction and comics.
http://aanpress.com/submissions.html
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 1,500–3,500 words
Deadline: Open between June 1–July 31, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: est. August 30, 2021
Description: stories that drift in alternate realities of Spirit Machine, an anthology that merges Science Fiction with Spiritualism and/or a dash of Steampunk: A mashup of Spiritualism (seances, Ouija/spirit boards, kirlian auras, discarnated entities, ghost talking).
The Antihumanist
https://theantihumanists.com/fiction-submissions/
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Fiction that challenges human centered narratives, that forces us to confront our place in the universe, that makes us question: Who are we? Why are we here? Is there a purpose? Historically, weird fiction has best captured this goal. However, we are willing to accept submissions from speculative, horror, and literary writers that meet the above criteria.
Friends Journal: Quaker Speculative Fiction Special Issue
https://friendsjournal.submittable.com/submit/193295/november-2021-quaker-sci-fi-speculative-fiction
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 500–2,000 words
Deadline: August 23, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Speculative fiction stories to answer the question: “How would the world and the way Quakers live in it be different if “X” were true?” stories of Quakers and their experiences outside of what is true of the world we inhabit today. Quakers on interstellar voyages. Quakers in neon-lit dystopic (or utopic!) futures. Quakers in worlds with magicians, wizards, werewolves, and things that go bump in the night. Quakers in cities with superheroes and villains. Quakers in a past that never was. OPEN to non-quaker authors.
Baffling Magazine (published by Neon Hemlock)
https://www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: under 1,200 words
Deadline: Open between June 1–June 15, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: 90 days
Description: Speculative stories that explore science fiction, fantasy, and horror with a queer bent. We welcome weird, slipstream, and interstitial writing.
https://submission.amazingstoriesmag.com/guidelines/
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–10,000 words
Deadline: until “late June or Late July” (unspecified)
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Imaginative science/ speculative fiction stories. See website for Upcoming THEMED ISSUES: “Home Sweet Solar System” (challenges of living off Earth in the Solar System) and “Everything Computes” (living in an environment that is completely programmable).
https://ericraglin.com/2021/03/09/antifa-splatterpunk/
Payment: $100 flat
Story Length: 2,000–4,500 words
Deadline: Open between July 1–July 31, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: August 31, 2021
Description: Anti-fascist splatterpunk stories. In addition to pure splatterpunk, I’m also open to extreme horror with weird, bizarro, historical, or science fiction elements.
https://www.commontonguezine.com/guidelines-submissions/
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: 600–6,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: Unknown
Description: Dark fantasy magazine aiming to bring cultural and integral voices to fantasy and diversify the genre. Primarily interested in Fantasy with a dark theme.
May 20, 2021
Latest Quarterly Newsletter Went Out!
For those who do not subscribe to my quarterly newsletter, but are still desperately wondering what I’m up to, here is an online version of the issue!
https://preview.mailerlite.com/k3t6v0
May 18, 2021
Quarterly Reminder to Subscribe to the Eric J. Guignard/ Dark Moon Books Newsletter!
The quarterly Eric J. Guignard/ Dark Moon Books newsletter is raising sail and prepping cargo holds for grand departure this weekend!
But fear not, ye weary reader/writer, for the S.S. Guignard still has room for many more passengers.
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May 4, 2021
Release day today: THE PARASITE AND OTHER TALES OF TERROR
It's release day today! Extremely thrilled (and proud) to see this in print: THE PARASITE AND OTHER TALES OF TERROR by Arthur Conan Doyle, 6th volume in the series: Haunted Library of Horror Classics, presented by the Horror Writers Association.
This series is curated by myself and Leslie S. Klinger, intended to present seminal texts for a modern audience, and are publishing quarterly by Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of SourceBooks! Les and I add annotations, study discussion questions, reading lists, author biography, and more. PLUS! Every volume opens with an introduction by leading author or expert in the field. This volume’s introduction is by none other than Doyle-authority, and award-winning author, Daniel Stashower!
Available at Amazon and other online distributors: https://www.amazon.com/Parasite-Terror-Haunted-Library-Classics/dp/1492699802
April 26, 2021
April, 2021 Dark Fiction Short Story Markets
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Blood Knife e-Magazine
https://bloodknife.com/write-for-blood-knife/
Payment: 9 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,200 words
Deadline: Intermittent. Currently open, but unknown when it will close.
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Imagined futures, alternate histories, blood, cyborgs, and radical left politics. Besides fiction, also open to nonfiction articles and illustrations (different pay rates).
https://thedeadlands.com/guidelines/#fiction
Payment: 10 cents a word (1 cent for reprints)
Story Length: up to 5,000 words (preferably 3,000–4,000 words)
Deadline: ongoing or intermittent (currently open)
Reprints?: Yes
Response: unknown
Description: Speculative fiction stories about death, or what death may involve. EX: A ghost in a shadowed wood. An afterlife discovered through a rusted door. An abandoned house in the middle of a haunted field. A skeletal figure moving with intent toward something unseen. Death personified; stories from a worldwide perspective, different cultures, different approaches to death.
http://unfitmag.com/submit
Payment: 25 cents a word for the first 1,000 words; 1 cent a word over 1,000
Story Length: under up to 10,000 words
Deadline: Intermittent (currently open)
Reprints?: Yes (paid at 1 cent/ word)
Response: 30 days: NOTE: This market ONLY responds to accept. No response within 30 days means rejection.
Description: High quality Speculative Fiction and Science Fiction; Quantum Fiction, Cyberpunk, Alternative Histories and Steampunk.
http://unrealmag.com/submit
Payment: 25 cents a word for the first 1,000 words; 1 cent a word over 1,000
Story Length: under up to 10,000 words
Deadline: Intermittent (currently open)
Reprints?: Yes (paid at 1 cent/ word)
Response: 30 days: NOTE: This market ONLY responds to accept. No response within 30 days means rejection.
Description: High quality fantasy (including Magical Realism and Experimental Fiction). Well written, intelligent, and enjoyable to read. Stories with metaphors and emotional ambience and imaginative descriptive writing. Stories that define the rules of magic at this indefinite point in time.
http://subterrain.ca/about/35/sub-terrain-writer-s-guidelines
Payment: 10 cents a word (Canadian, translates to about 7.5 cents/ word U.S.)
Story Length: up to 3,000 words
Deadline: Intermittent. Currently (may change) to June 30, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Themed by issue; literary/ genre fiction: Issue #89 {NEIGHBOURS} explore the world of “neighbours.” Whether we love them or hate them, we all have them. There’s the “Good Neighbour” policy and the unwritten but often spoken of “Bad Neighbour” policy. We welcome essays, fiction, opinion pieces, and poetry that reflects upon this unique designation — whether it be warm and fuzzy, awkward and prickly, or strained — that we call “neighbour.”
http://www.apex-magazine.com/submission-guidelines
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 7,500 words
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: One month
Description: Exceptionally well-written Science fiction, fantasy, horror, and all its sub-genres.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of the Month”
https://twitter.com/andrewcull/status/1381034413291626497/photo/1
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–4,000 words
Deadline: August 8, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Original, found footage tales. Stories can be written in first person, third person, as a transcript, journal, radio play, poetry, as a script. Think stories that shouldn’t be read. Videos found in flooded basements. Broadcasts heard in your dreams.
https://www.forgelitmag.com/flm/submit
Payment: flat $75
Story Length: Generally 3,000 words or less, but will consider up to 5,000 words. Flash is also highly appreciated (1,000 words or less).
Deadline: Opens from the first of each month until monthly quota is filled.
Reprints?: No
Response: 3 months or less
Description: Prose Fiction—Open to all genres and voices, and stories with any background. Literary excellence is our only criteria. Pieces read anonymously, so please do not put your name anywhere in the file.
April 16, 2021
Acquisition of +Horror Library+ anthology series!
For worldwide release: ANNOUNCING! Dark Moon Books has acquired the acclaimed +HORROR LIBRARY+ anthology series, with award-winning author Eric J. Guignard commissioned as its new permanent editor.
The +Horror Library+ anthology series is a hallmark for non-themed short works of horror & dark fantasy fiction for both new and established authors. Since 2006, it has been internationally praised as a groundbreaking source of contemporary horror short fiction stories—relevant to the moment and stunning in impact—from leading authors of the macabre and darkly imaginative.
Look for submissions to open soon for the next volume, or be notified in advance by subscribing to the Dark Moon Books/ Eric J. Guignard quarterly newsletter. To subscribe, provide your email address on the form page here: http://www.ericjguignard.com/subscribe.html.
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