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May, 2025 Dark Fiction Short Story Markets

HWA L.A.: For May, 2025
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)

https://zombiesneedbrains.moksha.io/publication/skull-x-bones/guidelines
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 7,500 words
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: by July 31
Description: Original stories of sciencefiction or fantasy pirates, whether they be on the sailing ships of the deepwide ocean or the spaceships of the black void.

https://www.thedailytomorrow.com/submissions
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: 2,100–3,500 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown (reports within amonth)
Description: High concept sciencefiction stories. (A preference for stories that bring a new idea to the genreand explore it efficiently in a story with compelling characters.)


Dracula Beyond Stoker: Issue 7: MinaHarker
https://www.dbspress.com/submissions
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 1,500–5,000 words
Open From: Open between May 1–June30, 2025
Reprints?: Yes (if older than 10years) (and paid flat rate of $55)
Response: Unknown, but reported asgenerally between 30 and 60 days.
Description: The best new fictionbased on Stoker’s characters, locations, and themes. This issue: Mina isteacher, a wife, and the heart and the hero of the novel. Her spirit andintelligence keep her resilient even when darkness closes in. But who is Minabeneath the surface? Did her experiences leave her haunted? How did herconnection to Dracula affect her view of the world or her family? Whether it’sbefore, during, or after the events of the novel, let’s explore her strength,her struggles, and her secrets.


Story Unlikely
https://www.storyunlikely.com/#submit
Payment: 8 cents a word (upto $200 cap; no longer minimum “pro” pay after 4,000 words)
Story Length: up to 10,000 words
Deadline: September 29, 2024
Reprints?: Yes (paid at 1 cent/ wordup to $75)
Response: 90 days
Description: Good stories thatelicit emotion. Any genre. NOTE: Submissions require (free) subscription tomonthly e-mag publication.


Utopia SF Magazine (Flash Fictionissue)
https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/submit
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,000 words forflash fiction issue (normally up to 4,000 words)
Deadline: June 1, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: Up to four months
Description: See site for quarterlythemes. Current issue is non-themed. Mag is also interested in art andnon-fiction, all science-fiction related.


The DARK (monthly online e-magazine)
http://thedarkmagazine.com/submission-guidelines
Payment: 5 cents a word (1 cent a word for reprints)
Story Length: 2,000–6,000 words
Deadline: Currently open, but intermittent
Reprints?: Yes
Response: between 1 day to 1 week
Description: Unique Horror and Dark Fantasy (No graphic/ violentcontent); fiction that may fall out of “regular” categories (Tons of greatauthors publish here).



***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick ofthe Month”

https://goblinsandgalaxies.com/submissions/
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: up to 6,000 words
Deadline: Open between May 7–May 14,2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Sword & sorcery,dark fantasy, and science fiction stories. A sense of adventure in the story isimportant. Action should take center stage.


The Necronomicon ofSherlock Holmes
https://belangerbooks-sherlockholmes.blogspot.com/2025/02/call-for-submissions-for-new-sherock.html
Payment: $125 flat
Story Length: 5,000–10,000 words
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Stories must feel liketraditional Holmes and Lovecraft stories. The stories should have thetraditional Holmes and Watson working with the traditional characters,creatures, and/or gods of H.P. Lovecraft. Remember, there was a logic to thewriting of Lovecraft, a rationale behind the otherworldly beings even if humanscouldn’t conceive it, that should blend well with the deductive skills ofSherlock Holmes.


Self (S)care: Best of 2026 Self Published Horror (Edited by Candace Nolaand Paul Carro)
https://www.uncomfortablydark.com/uncomfortablydarkdozen
Payment: 2 cents a word 
Story Length: 1,000–8,500 words
Deadline: Opens mid-May for work previously self-published Jan–April2025
Reprints?: Exclusively
Response: By end of 2025
Description: Seeking unique voices in horror and unique stories thatwere originally self-published.

2025 Festival of Books

I had a great time over theweekend at the 30th annual L.A. Times Festival of Books!

Worked as an AuthorEscort volunteer on Saturday (April 26) and signed books at Mystery Writers of America boothon Sunday (April 27), and saw panels, friends, and authors I admire all throughout. Poured rain early on,and was cold, and crowded (a good thing, that), but always a fun time, andsomething I’m continually happy to be part of (having volunteered there each year since 2011!).

On campus at USC

with friend Kate Maruyama (Photo courtesy Kate Maruyama)

With Kate Maruyama and Toni Ann Johnson (Photo courtesy Kate Maruyama)

So lovely to have met NYT Bestselling  Liz Moore, whose novel THE GOD OF THE WOODS
I'd just recently read and absolutely adored!

Panel: "Page to Screen: How BookTok Builds Global Screen Sensations"with: Author Mercedes Ron; Morgann Book; Vanessa Craft; Meg James;
Fernando Lindez; and Eva Ruiz

Discussion with actor Wilmer Valderrama

Signing at MWA (Mystery Writers of America) booth with
authors Adam Sikes and S. J. Rozan (Photo by Mystery Ink Bookstore)

With NYT bestselling, Afrofuturist and sci-fi author Nnedi Okorafor

Release Day for: A GRAVESIDE GALLERY: TALES OF GHOSTS AND DARK MATTERS

 New release today: My second fiction collection!!

includes nineteen strange andmasterful short fiction stories in this second collection by award-winningauthor Eric J. Guignard. Fromhauntings and oblivion to monsters, murder, and anthropomorphism, A Graveside Gallery explores the literary odd and macabrethat reside in the vast shadows of our existence.

Discover why Eric J. Guignard’s beautifully-voiced and disquieting work hasbeen praised by sites such as

• In “A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds,” a gay Hispanic teen in 1950sLos Angeles, mourning the loss of a friend, has a chance to make amends duringDay of the Dead.
• In “Incident at the Red Hawk Road Stop,” the owner of a roadside trading posthas a deadly secret, but so too does the customer he kills.
• In “Penny’s Diner,” a long haul trucker, coming home after an accident, stopsat a curious diner.
• .
• In “Bummin’ to the Beat of the Road,” a Beat-era youth leaves home to travelthe land, only to find madness, murder, and the teeth of a new generation.
• In “Perchance to Dream in Voices of a Fiend: A Fanciful Epilogue toFrankenstein,” an intimate epilogue is suggested to the famous novel Frankenstein,offering a more hopeful closure to characters’ lives.

Those and thirteen other talesexplore the fearful and nebulous boundaries of reality. Visit A Graveside Gallery by Eric J. Guignard and behold that whichis captivating, startling, and darkly enriching.

More here: https://ericjguignard.com/a_graveside_gallery.html

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Table of Contents:

Penny’sDiner
• A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds
• If I Drive Before I Wake
• Bummin’ to the Beat of the Road
• The Telephone Game
• The Tale of Samuel Whiskers Continued; or, A London Digression
• Drink, Drink From the Fountain of Death
• Ritual Sacrifice to the Great God of Skates
• The Moon Over Andersonville
• A Stroke of Death
• The Shimmer of Trees
• Ommetaphobia
• The Ascending Lights of Yu Lan
• Two Hearts Make a Half; or, Ghosts of a Rodeo Clown
• Perchance to Dream in Voices of a Fiend: A Fanciful Epilogue to Frankenstein
• Incident at the Red Hawk Road Stop
• O Shades, My Woe
• Carmine Lips and a Fade into Oblivion
• The First Order of Whaleyville’s Divine Basilisk Handlers

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Title:

; $4.99
Cemetery Dance Publications (Forest Hill, MD)
(80,500 words)
13-digit ISBN (paperback):
13-digit ISBN (e-book):
ASIN (ebook): B0DVJ2XDXH
Library of Congress Control Number: 2024952840
Date of publication: April 22, 2025
Available for sale here: https://www.amazon.com/Graveside-Gallery-Tales-Ghosts-Matters/dp/1949491617/

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April, 2025 Dark Fiction Short Story Markets

HWA L.A.: For April, 2025
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)

The Deadlands
https://thedeadlands.com/guidelines/
Payment: 10 cents a word (1 cent for reprints)
Story Length: up to 5,000 words(preferably 3,000–4,000 words)
Deadline: Open between April 1–April30, 2025
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Two weeks
Description: Speculative fictionstories 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 middleof a haunted field. A skeletal figure moving with intent toward somethingunseen. Death personified; stories from a worldwide perspective, differentcultures, different approaches to death.

Solarpunk Magazine
https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 500–7,500 words
Deadline: Open between April 1–April14, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Short stories andpoetry that strive for a utopian ideal, that are set in futures wherecommunities are optimistically struggling to solve or adapt to climate change,to create or maintain a world in which humanity, technology, and nature coexistin harmony rather than in conflict, etc. Also open to poetry and non-fiction.

Story Unlikely
https://www.storyunlikely.com/#submit
Payment: 8 cents a word (up to $200 cap; no longerminimum “pro” pay after 4,000 words)
Story Length: up to 3,500 words
Deadline: September 29, 2025
Reprints?: Yes (paid at 2 cents)
Response: 90 days
Description: Good stories thatelicit emotion. Any genre. NOTE: Submissions require (free) subscription tomonthly e-mag publication.

Scary Stories Whispered in the Rain
https://www.elizabethguizzetti.com/
Submissionguidelines not found on site, but on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/openspeculativemarkets/permalink/9609181155811782
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 40,000 words
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: Yes ($50 flat)
Response: unknown
Description: Original horror storiesto be used for all-ages podcast (i.e. keep it PG13). See submission link formonthly themes.


Wet Screams: A MonsterfuckerAnthology (Little Ghosts Books)
https://www.littleghostsbooks.com/wetscreams
Payment: 7 cents a word
Story Length: up to 6,000 words
Deadline: April 14, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: By May 1, 2025
Description: Anthology ofMonsterfucking Stories: Monstrous romance with high spice. Horror and erotica (intendedto be risqué and fun).


Planet Scumm
https://www.planetscumm.space/submit
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: May 7, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Previously unpublishedshort fiction that doesn’t lean heavily on genre tropes. Hard sci-fi, softsci-fi, sci-fi that melts in your mouth-brain not your hand-brain. Speculativefiction, weird fiction, slipstream, glitterlit, analogpunk.



***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick ofthe Month”

https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: April 15, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: by May 31, 2025
Description: Stories that are funand have a speculative element to them. Swashbuckling adventure, deadlyintrigue, and gleeful romance are some of the most obvious examples of whatwe’re looking for, but we won’t say no to more subtle or complicated topics.


Samhain Screams (edited by GregChapman and Cameron Trost)
https://blackbeaconbooks.blogspot.com/2025/01/anthology-announcement-samhain-screams.html
Payment: Flat pay of $50 AUD (converts to about $32 USD)
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: May 30, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Memorable,character-driven stories set on, or near, the last night of October. Give usghosts, serial killers, rituals and monsters, heroes and villains, but most ofall give us the true dark side of Halloween – and make it terrifying.


Trollbreath Magazine
https://magazine.trollbreath.com/submissions/
Payment: 4 cents a word (1/2 cent a word for reprints);$25 flat rate for poetry
Story Length: 1,500–7,500 words(prefer 4,000–5,000)
Deadline: Open between April 1–April30, 2025
Reprints?: Yes (paid at 1/2 cent/word)
Response: Within 60 days
Description: Non-themed speculativefiction, poetry, and non-fiction; from dark fantasy to hope punk to surrealism,and everything in between.

 

Announcement for SCARING AND DARING anthology!!!

Absolutely thrilled toannounce the finalization, preorder, and list of contributors for the latestanthology that I developed!!

Horror Writers Association’s Scaring and Daring is an assemblage of originalMiddle Grade-appropriate short stories adding a “scaring and daring” element toa classic of literature.

Coming August 2025 from HarperCollins, Scaring and Daring will include the following stories:

• “Hook and the Hand ofFate” by Teel James Glenn and Maxwell I. Gold (from Peter Pan)

• “What We Found BeneathMount Etna” by Lisa Morton (from Journeyto the Center of the Earth)

• “Prince Badi az-Zamanand the Ogress Fattan” by TanvirAhmed (from One Thousand and One Nights)

• “The Hound of theBasking Villas” by Kelley Armstrong(from The Hound of the Baskervilles)

• “The Lost Musketeer” by Maurice Broaddus (from The ThreeMusketeers)

• “The Secret (Thing inthe) Garden” by Delilah S. Dawson(from The Secret Garden)

• “The Shadows in theRock” by Joe R. Lansdale (from Adventuresof Huckleberry Finn)

• “A Lucky Find” by Kristi Petersen Schoonover(from Moby-Dick)

• “The Boy of La ManchaRides a Ghost Horse” by Carlos Hernandez(from Don Quixote (or, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha))

• “The Glass Slipper” by Sherrilyn Kenyon (from Cinderella)

• “Wolf in the Mirror” by Sarwat Chadda (from The Jungle Book)

• “Vessel Eaters” by Ai Jiang (from “The Ballad ofMulan”)

• “Freckle and Hide” by Jonathan Maberry (from TheStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)

• “Out on a Limb” by Nancy Holder (from Pollyanna)

• “The Gruelmaster” by Nathan Carson (from Oliver Twist)

Edited by Eric J. Guignard. Preorders available now atHarperCollinsor Amazon.This book is scheduled for release August, 2025.

And look at thisbreath-taking artwork!!!

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March, 2025 Dark Fiction Short Story Markets

HWA L.A.: For March, 2025
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)

https://www.orions-belt.net/submissions
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,200 words
Opens: March 1–September 1, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: generally within one week
Description: Bold, experimentalliterary science fiction and fantasy stories that blur the line between “genre”fiction and literary fiction.


Drabblecast (online speculativefiction magazine and podcast)
https://www.drabblecast.org/submissions
Payment: 6 cents a word (3cents a word for reprints)
Story Length: 500–4,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Up to 3 months
Description: “Strange Stories forStrange Listeners,” often also classified as “Weird Fiction” … or any and allgenres, but largely centers around those of Science Fiction, Fantasy andHorror.


Planet Scumm
https://www.planetscumm.space/submit
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: May 7, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Previously unpublishedshort fiction that doesn’t lean heavily on genre tropes. Hard sci-fi, softsci-fi, sci-fi that melts in your mouth-brain not your hand-brain. Speculativefiction, weird fiction, slipstream, glitterlit, analogpunk.


It Was Paradise (Reckoning)
https://reckoning.press/special-submission-call-it-was-paradise/
Payment: 15 cents a word
Story Length: up to 20,000 words
Deadline: June 22, 2025
Reprints?: Yes
Response: 1 to 6 months
Description: Short stories thatdelve into the heart of extinction, genocide, and climate crisis. Expose theexploitation of the earth. Show us how the world could be on the other side.Send us your stories of environmental justice, of violence, imperialism,fascism, and resistance, of destruction, survival, and of triumph.*Prioritizing work by people with lived experience of war and conflict.


Other: the 2025 Speculative FictionAnthology
https://bannisterpress.com/submissions/
Payment: 8 cents (Canadian) aword (abt. 5-1/2 cents/ word U.S.)
Story Length: 2,500–3,500 words
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: After submissions close
Description: Stories of wonder: shortstories that are visually evocative (or character/narrative focused) and thatleave the reader thinking about the story long after closing the book. We don’twant a lesson, we want an experience that makes us come alive.


Asimov’s Science Fiction (magazine)
http://www.asimovs.com/contact-us/writers-guidelines
Payment: 8+ cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–20,000 words(generally less than 7,500 words)
Deadline: Continually open
Reprints?: No
Response: Five weeks
Description: Character-orientedScience Fiction stories that is serious, thoughtful, yet accessible (occasionalhumor), including borderline fantasy, slipstream, and surreal fiction (and somepoetry).



***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick ofthe Month”

https://flashpointsf.com/submissions/
Payment: 2 cents a word
Story Length: ?,000–?,000 words
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: 30 days (up to 60 if under“further consideration”)
Description: Original flashfiction stories: Fantasy, science fiction, speculative, slipstream, etc. (lighthorror is okay, but not “primarily horror driven.”).


Radon Journal
https://radonjournal.submittable.com/submit
Payment: 2 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: April 15, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: within four weeks
Description: Short stories andpoetry containing elements of science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, ordystopia.


SNAFU: Contagion
https://www.cohesionpress.com/submissions
Payment: Australian 5 cents a word(abt. 3-1/2 cents a word US)
Story Length: 2,500–7,500 words
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: estimate 3–4months
Description: Action-filled tales of viral, fungal and bacterial horror. Whetherit be giant brutish mutations, fungal infections gone wrong, or experimentalnightmarish creatures made with super soldier experiments, it always ends withpeople fighting to survive the horrible, seeping creations that result fromcontagion and infection.

 

Book Chain 15: Double Jack (The Crime Files of Katy Green #1) by Gene O'Neill

Book Chain Campaign: BookChain15: Tracking Log for:

Double Jack (The Crime Files of Katy Green #1) by Gene O'Neill :

i. Bought from Dark Moon Books, September, 2024

ii. Given from Eric J. Guignard to Marielle Horst, January 21, 2025

iii. Where to next...? Only chance and the last reader involved may determine! #BookChainChallenge

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NOTES:

Book back copy: Book #1 in theseries, THE CRIME FILES OF KATY GREEN

The novella that started it all!

It’s night, Sacramento, and single female drivers who break down on the side ofInterstate-5 are relieved to see the highway safety CalTrans truck arrive togive assistance… until they realize that’s not what the 400-pound ex-boxer whogets out has in mind…

Such is the M.O. of serial killer, Jack Malenko, who preys on women in distressin full sight of passing traffic. Assigned to the notorious case are homicidedetectives Katy Green and Johnny Cato, dubbed by the press as Sacramento’s“Green Hornet and Cato.” However, from the beginning of this case, the twodetectives seem to continually be one step behind their huge killer… and eachday that passes brings worse news and fresh victims.

How fast can they track down the predatory monster to save further lives, andif they do find him, can they save their own lives in the violent encounter?

With Introduction by John Palisano

and Interior Illustrations by Greg Chapman

Discover why readers have been applauding this stark, fast-paced noir series bymultiple-award-winning author Gene O’Neill! Read each volume and then continue withthe other shocking case files of Sacramento’s “Green Hornet and Cato”!

·         THECRIME FILES OF KATY GREEN #1: DOUBLE JACK (a novella) ·         THECRIME FILES OF KATY GREEN #2: SHADOW OF THE DARK ANGEL
·         THECRIME FILES OF KATY GREEN #3: DEATHFLASH ·          THE CRIME FILES OF KATY GREEN #4: A STICK OF DOUBLEMINT .

(pub. Dark Moon Books, October 1, 2017)

Available here: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/double_jack.html

And reviewed on:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Double-Jack-Crime-Files-Green/dp/194949120X

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/double-jack-gene-oneill/1127136395?ean=9781949491203

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36387441-double-jack

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AND READ WHAT #BOOKCHAIN IS ABOUT HERE!  

https://ericjguignard.blogspot.com/2024/06/book-chain.html

Release Day for: EXPLORING DARK SHORT FICTION #7: A PRIMER TO GEMMA FILES

New release today by Dark Moon Books!!

Named “One of the genre's most original andinnovative voices” (L.A. Review of Books) and “An expert at terrifyingprose” (LitReactor), Canadian author Gemma Files has been penning grittyand macabre fiction since 1993, earning industry awards and critical acclaimfrom sources such as National Public Radio, Publishers Weekly,and The National Post. Files imbues her cross-genre work with layerslike dark stratum: heartbreak upon horror, built over the vignettes of life wemay find ourselves in, but for one slight turn of reality.

Dark Moon Books and editor Eric J. Guignard bring you this introduction to her work, the seventh in a series of primersexploring modern masters of literary dark short fiction. Herein is a chance todiscover—or learn more of—the evocative voice of Gemma Files, as beautifullyillustrated by artist Michelle Prebich.

Included within these pages are:

• Six short stories, one written exclusively forthis book

• Author interview

• Biography and bibliography

• Academic commentary by Michael Arnzen, PhD (formerhumanities chair and professor of the year, Seton Hill University)

•  … and more!

Enter this doorway to the vast and fantastic: Getto know Gemma Files.

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Title:  Exploring Dark Short Fiction #7: A Primer to Gemma Files

By: Edited by Eric J. Guignard (including Short Fiction authored by Gemma Files), with academic commentary by Michael Arnzen, PhD, and illustrations by Michelle Prebich

Price: $24.95 for hardback; $14.95 for print and $4.99 for electronic

Publisher: Dark Moon Books (Los Angeles, CA)

Format: Available in HARDBACK, TRADE PAPERBACK and ELECTRONIC media

13-digit ISBN: 978-1-949491-47-0 (hardback); 978-1-949491-45-6 (trade paperback) 978-1-949491-46-3 (e-book)

Number of pages: 220

Date of publication: February 4, 2025 

Praise for the Exploring Dark Short Books series:

“A fascinating study for fans seeking new reads and for librarians developing wide-ranging collections.” —Library Journal

“Refreshing and much-needed... Addresses significant themes and figures within the horror field.” —Locus Magazine

"An insightful look at the working methods and underlying concerns of some of the foremost exponents of the short story form, appealing to both intellect and the emotions.” —Black Static Magazine

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Publisher’s Page: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/Primer_7.html

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Dark-Short-Fiction-Primer/dp/1949491471/

Also available on all other online distribution sites, including B&N, Bookshop.org, Kobo, etc. 

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Cover Reveal for my second collection: A GRAVESIDE GALLERY: TALES OF GHOSTS AND DARK MATTERS

Behold: #coverreveal formy second collection coming out through Cemetery Dance !!

A GRAVESIDE GALLERY:TALES OF GHOSTS AND DARK MATTERS

(art by Alexander Nazolkin)

So absolutely in lovewith this, and cannot wait for April 22 release date!

Kindle preorders here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVJ2XDXH

Paperback preorders here:https://www.cemeterydance.com/AGravesideGallery.html

More about the bookhere: http://ericjguignard.com/a_graveside_gallery.html

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February, 2025 Dark Fiction Short Story Markets

HWA L.A.: For February, 2025
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)

https://www.cateyepress.com/submissionsPayment: 5 cents a word (1 cent/word for reprints)Story Length: 1,500–5,000 wordsDeadline: Open February 1 through February28, 2025Reprints?: YesResponse: unknownDescription: Looking to update the“mummy genre.” Diverse stories about “Modern mummies,” which could also mean amodern-day person being mummified and its ramifications. We’d like you to thinkabout how social media or our politics might react to a “new wave” ofmummification. And what does that say about death in the modern era?

https://mergansermagazine.com/about.htmlPayment: 8 cents a word (poetry at $1 USD per line)Story Length: up to 2,000 wordsDeadline: Currently open (no endingdate listed)Reprints?: NoResponse: unknownDescription: Story Length: up to 2,000 wordsDeadline: Currently open (no endingdate listed)Reprints?: NoResponse: unknownDescription: Strong prose and poetrycovering a wide range of material, whose work transcends disciplines andgenres.

The Cosmic Background https://www.thecosmicbackground.com/guidelinesPayment: 10 cents a word (3 cents/word for reprints)Story Length: up to 1,000 words(soft range/ a bit over is okay)Deadline: Currently open (no endingdate listed)Reprints?: YesResponse: unknownDescription: Slipstream/ speculativeflash fiction stories: character-focused writing, with an emphasis on voice.

Elder Things Expeditions (anthology) https://www.hiraethsffh.com/elder-things-expeditionsPayment: 8 cents a word for the 1st 3,000words and 3 cents a word thereafterStory Length: 3,000–6,000 wordsDeadline: March 31, 2025Reprints?: NoResponse: 90 daysDescription: Short horrorLovecraftian-esque stories relating to exploration of Antarctica, and leadingto revelations about the nature of the denizens, normal and paranormal, residingthere.

Wrath Month (Bona Books) https://www.bona-books.com/submissionsPayment: 8 cents a wordStory Length: up to 6,000 wordsDeadline: May 31, 2025Reprints?: NoResponse: July 31, 2025Description: Fantasy,science-fiction, and horror short stories that embrace punk and queer rage:Wrath lies at the heart of queer liberation—it can be a spur to action and theonly righteous response to a world that would prefer we didn’t exist. So crashmainframes, collapse empires, and break normativity. Pride month is over.It’s time for—Wrath Month!

Assemble Artifacts Magazine(Assemble Media) https://www.assemblemedia.com/artifactsPayment: 8–10 cents a wordStory Length: “at least” 5,000 words(soft range)Deadline: ongoingReprints?: NoResponse: Responses only foracceptance. Assume rejection if no response after 90 days.Description: Stories of wonder andsuspense that also reflect contemporary issues and incite meaningfulconversation. (*NOTE: Submitters, double-check the rights that are being soldwith work).


***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick ofthe Month”
https://octobernightspress.bigcartel.com/open-callsPayment: 1 cent a wordStory Length: 3,000–5,500 words
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Horror stories ofcryptids, folk characters, and legends; seeking to breathe new life into agedstories. So, ax re-telling, and focus on re-envisioning.


Flash Point Science Fiction
https://flashpointsf.com/submissions/
Payment: 2 cents a word
Story Length: 100–1,000 words
Deadline: Open February 1 through March31, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: 30 days
Description: Original speculativefiction short stories (may include science fiction, fantasy, slipstream,holiday, but NO Horror).