“Trad Gothic” Calm Going to Hse of Long Shadows

Trad Gothic.  You know it when you see it.  Such was the opening of the call.  Horror is the most famously Gothic genre — and our number one aesthetic touchstone is horror cinema in the Corman-Hammer vein — but we’re also open to family dramas, murder mysteries, and moody romance. . .

The market was new e-publication HOUSE OF LONG SHADOWS ([a] new story with accompanying artwork will be posted each Saturday, beginning on January 4th, 2025), and pay would be a share of a given month’s subscription revenue.  Yeah, maybe not much, but reprints were okay as long as they went back at least ten years, so why not.  It sounded like it has the potential to become well-followed and, frankly, the cash in this game is low enough that I’m almost getting more interested in just spreading my writing around than profiting from it.

Well, sort of anyway.

But to the point, why not?  I had several stories, especially with historical settings ([p]eriod or quasi-period settings [17th century through 1930s] are preferred, but accurate detail is not a priority) and I had one, “The Calm” (see October 4, July 27 2022; November 20 2020, et al.), taking place during the French and Indian War and originally printed in Marietta Publishing’s NEW MYTHOS LEGENDS way back in 1999, so off it went . . . Tuesday.  And, lightning-quick, yesterday, Wednesday the 13th, the word came back from Editor Sara Bickley:  Thank you again for letting us read “The Calm.”  We are pleased to accept it for publication in January 2025.