Taking Submissions: Stygian Lepus Magazine – Dec 2025 🗓 Dec 1–25, 2025 | 💰 $5 Theme: Dark fiction, serialized dark fiction, & creative non-fiction Accepting stories, poems, art & articles leaning to the dark side. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #Horror #DarkFiction #AmWriting

Taking Submissions: World Upside Down 🗓 Deadline: Jan 15 2026 | 💀 Pay: Contributor copy Theme: Mind-bending Lovecraftian tales Submit 1–3 scary short stories or poems honoring H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror and madness. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... @daisyismissing.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Book Review: Night of the Living Toilet Paper by Kevin Garone A fast-paced, middle-grade adventure where paranormal chaos, friendship, and rogue toilet paper collide. Full review on Horror Tree: 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #BookReview #Horror #MiddleGrade #HorrorTree

Taking Submissions: Untitled Cozy Fantasy Anthology 🗓 Deadline: Jan 31, 2026 | 💰 $30 Theme: Cozy Fantasy Send your whimsical, heartwarming tales—second-world, urban, or magical realism-all welcome. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... @hollowoakpress.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #CozyFantasy

Ongoing Submissions: A Midnight Kind of Place 💰 £15 (GBP) per story Theme: Most forms of horror 🌍 Open worldwide (UK focus) Seeking 500–10,000 word horror stories that chill, haunt, and linger. 🔗 horrortree.com/ongoing-subm... #WritingCommunity #Horror #AmWriting #DarkFiction #HorrorTree

Writing Prompt Wednesdays: The After Party from @corinnepwriter.bsky.social horrortree.com/writing-prom... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Taking Submissions: Fun in the Dark: Transformations 🗓 Deadline: Dec 31, 2025 | 💰 £20 + contributor copy Theme: Fun but dark fiction on “Transformations” Send your dark, twisted takes on change-physical, mental, or monstrous. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #Horror #SpecFic

Taking Submissions: Stone’s Throw - Dec 2025 🗓 Dec 1–3, 2025 | 💰 $25 Theme: Noir on the theme of dreams Send 1–2K word dark fiction or crime noir to RHP Press. One story wins publication + $25, later featured in an annual anthology. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #Noir

Book Review: Silent Night, Deadly Night by Armando Muñoz The 1984 cult Christmas-slasher reborn as a brutal, expanded novelization. @armandomunoz.bsky.social delivers gore, trauma & holiday dread worthy of the original film. 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #BookReview #Horror #Slasher #HorrorTree

Taking Submissions: Walls Anthology 🗓 Deadline: Nov 30, 2025 | 💰 $50 Theme: Walls-real, imagined, or rebuilt Send your best creative nonfiction about barriers, freedom, and what lies beyond. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #Nonfiction #AmWriting #HorrorTree

🎃 Ghost Lights is open for submissions! Mark Morris and Flame Tree Press are seeking unthemed horror stories (2–8k words) that surprise, disturb, and linger in the dark. 💰 Pay: $0.08/word 🕛 Deadline: Nov 14, 2025 Submit: horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #HorrorWriters #AmWriting

📚 What if the library of your childhood held otherworldly secrets? Submit your speculative tale to Tales from the Little Library by @brbbooks.bsky.social - stories set in nostalgic libraries with a fantastical twist. 🕛 Deadline: Nov 30, 2025 💰 Pay: $15 📖 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #AmWriting

Book Review: Benighted by J.B. Priestley Trapped by a storm in a decaying Welsh mansion, travelers meet the eerie Femm family in this gothic classic. @stephellis.bsky.social reviews Priestley’s masterful mix of dread and post-war disillusionment. 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #WritingCommunity

🌊 A missing aunt. A haunted coast. A village cursed by its own history. Vanessa F. Penney's The Witch of Willow Sound blends East Coast witch lore, murder mystery, and gothic horror in a gripping tale of family and forgotten sins. 📖 Read our #BookReview → horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...

This week’s #TremblingWithFear opens with Instruction Manual by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social - a Scottish vampire story told through a hoover’s directions. Plus drabbles by Kirk McDougall, @stevenpatchett.bsky.social, & Emily Jones. 🧛 Read now: horrortree.com/trembling-wi...#TremblingWithFear #AmReading

🪐 Now Open for Submissions! Allegory Magazine Vol. 49 seeks speculative fiction-horror, sci-fi & fantasy with originality, strong characters, and clever twists. 💰 $15 flat rate 🗓️ Deadline: Dec 31, 2025 ♻️ Reprints welcome 👉 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-allegory-volume-49/ #WritingCommunity

💀 A haunting new entry in grief horror. We Are Always Tender With Our Dead by Eric LaRocca ( from @titanbooks.bsky.social ) takes readers into Burnt Sparrow, NH- a town consumed by violence, sorrow, and unrelenting humanity. Read our review: 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #BookReview #Horror

The man in the mirror keeps changing in chapter 4 of our Serial Saturday, The Soul Equation by Zach Grant: horrortree.com/serial-satur... #Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors

Happy Halloween! My story "Neighborhood Decorations" is out today in the Trembling with Fear Halloween Special. Check it out!

🚪 Open Call - March 1–2, 2026! Views From The Overlook seeks one new voice to join an anthology set in Stephen King’s world of The Shining. 💰 $2,000 USD advance + royalties 🕰️ 24-hour window: Mar 1–2, 2026 👉 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-views-from-the-overlook/ #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

🩸 She’s been here all along. You just didn’t see her. In Pretend You Don’t See Her, editors Jill Girardi & Lydia Prime bring together women of horror in a fierce, cathartic anthology that’s impossible to put down. 📖 Read our #BookReview → horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...

👻 The Trembling With Fear Halloween Special has arrived! 🎃 Sink your fangs into fresh dark tales and eerie delights from our annual celebration of the macabre. 🕯️ Read the full special → horrortree.com/a-trembling-... #HorrorCommunity #HalloweenReads #AmReading

✍️ Call for Submissions! B Cubed Press seeks stories, poems & essays for More Alternative Liberties, exploring the potential consequences of the 2024 U.S. election in near-future or parallel worlds. 💰 10¢/word + royalties 🗓️ Dec 20 ,2025 👉 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-more-alternative-liberties/

🏚️ Quiet horror. Elegant prose. Lingering unease. The Silent House and Other Strange Stories by Sophia J. Unsworth blends Aickman-style subtlety with M.R. James’s ghostly grace-ten tales of memory, music, and the uncanny. 📖 Read our #BookReview → horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...

🪐 Open Soon for Submissions! Allegory Magazine Vol. 49 seeks speculative fiction: horror, sci-fi & fantasy with strong characters, clever twists, and originality. 💰 $15 flat rate 🗓️ Window: Nov 1–Dec 31, 2025 ♻️ Reprints welcome 👉 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-allegory-volume-49/ #WritingCommunity

Rediscovering What was Lost By Seth Voorhees horrortree.com/rediscoverin... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

🔥 Murder. Revenge. Soup. In Futility by @nuzo.bsky.social (from @titanbooks.bsky.social), two women betrayed by men embrace vengeance-guided by a trickster spirit in Abuja, Nigeria. Smart, scathing, and unforgettable. 📖 Read our #BookReview → horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...

🎸Open Call Cursed Morsels wants your weirdest work for its Dec 1–7 window 💋 Cunty Horrors 🎤 Cursed Concerts 💘 Monstrous Dating Profiles 💼 Batshit LinkedIn Posts 💰 Nightmare Grifters 10¢/word+5 copies @cursedmorsels.bsky.social 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-cursed-morsels-december-2025-window/

Taking Submissions: Droids & Dragons horrortree.com/taking-submi... Deadline: March 31st, 2026 Payment: $5 Theme: A story that must contain droids and/or dragons. Living in the New York 518 region is a plus #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Writing Prompt Wednesdays: Carve Your Pumpkin, If You Dare from @corinnepwriter.bsky.social horrortree.com/writing-prom... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

❄️ Open Call! Thema seeks stories, poems & art for the theme “While the Snowstorm Was Raging…” 💵 Pay: $25 short fiction | $10 poems 🗓️ Deadline: March 1, 2026 Let your words drift into the blizzard. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

🐈‍⬛ Ongoing Submissions! Black Cat Weekly seeks science fiction & fantasy stories with a strong plot and clear fantastic element. 💰 1¢/word | $5–$50 📖 Ongoing call for human-generated original fiction. 👉 horrortree.com/ongoing-submissions-black-cat-weekly/ #WritingCommunity #SpecFic #AmWriting

⛏️ When Kara’s father dies, old horror stories in Barre, Vermont come to life-miners walking from their graves, creatures in the trees, and gods in the shadows. 📘 The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger is a haunting mix of cosmic horror and dark fantasy. 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #BookReview

📜 Writers! Apex Magazine’s October Flash Fiction theme is Folklore. They’re seeking short, sharp tales (under 1,000 words) inspired by myth, superstition, and the stories we whisper in the dark. 🕛 Deadline: Oct 31, 2025 💰 Pay: 8¢/word 📖 Details → horrortree.com/taking-submi...

The Laughing Man House wants Southern Gothic, Southwestern & religious horror novels, novellas & collections. 💰60% author royalties 🗓️Due Oct 30 (Nov 7 for BIPOC,Disabled & Queer) @palestarsirius.bsky.social horrortree.com/the-laughing-man-house-is-open-to-for-horror-novels-novellas-and-collections/

🎬 Movies, mystery, and murder collide in our latest interview! We chat with author & YouTuber James Hicks about From Script to Scream - a love letter to horror fans, fame, and final girls. 📖 Read now → horrortree.com/movies-myste... #HorrorCommunity #AuthorInterview #DarkFiction

🔪 This week’s #TremblingWithFear opens with Panic Room by A.E. Deakin - a pulse-pounding slice of dread! Also featuring chilling drabbles by Katerina Petrou, @kirstyes.bsky.social, and Ryan Broderick. 📖 Read it now → horrortree.com/trembling-wi... #TremblingWithFear#HorrorCommunity #DarkFiction #AmReading

🏙️ Cities hold their own folk horror-rituals in alleys, secrets under pavements, dread behind locked doors. Read our #BookReview of Blood In the Bricks, edited by @neilwilliamson.bsky.social Dark tales where the urban meets the uncanny. 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #BookReview#AmReading #HorrorCommunity

Connor becomes obsessed over a change in his appearance in Chapter Three of our Serial Saturday, The Soul Equation by Zach Grant: horrortree.com/serial-satur... #Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors

🌀 Now Taking Submissions! Meetinghouse Magazine Vol. 6 wants genre-bending & genre-blending fiction, poetry, & art 💰 $40–$100 pay range 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 16, 2025 ✍️ Up to 7,500 words (2 prose, 5 poems, or 5 artworks) 👉 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-meetinghouse-magazine-volume-6/ #WritingCommunity

Can't wait for this opportunity to go public so we can get the details and share it with all of you amazing authors! #WritingCommunity

🩸 There’s a new horror award and it’s proudly queer. Slashic Horror Press launches The OutWrite Scary Awards, celebrating LGBTQ+ authors & stories in indie horror. Free to enter | Nov 1, 2025–Jan 31, 2026 Voting: Feb–May 2026 | Winners:June 2026 More info: horrortree.com/slashic-horr... #LGBTQHorror

You didn’t apply. But they hired you anyway. In The Company We Keep by Marquee Peters, office doors don’t lead where they should—and the photos on your desk start to fade. 📘 A sharp dose of psychological & corporate horror. 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #BookReview #Horror

🌍 Submissions Open Nov 1–30! @khoreo.bsky.social seeks SpecFic on Revolutions - daring, strange, subversive stories exploring change, resistance, and rebirth. 💰 10¢/word | under 5K ✍️ For immigrant & diaspora writers. 👉 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-khoreo-november-2025-window/ #WritingCommunity

❄️ Now Taking Submissions! Frost Zone Stories Books 3 & 4 seek Dark Literary Fiction, Quiet Horror, and Literary Horror. 💰 $15 CAD + copies 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 1, 2025 Send your subtle, chilling, and strange tales. 👉 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-frost-zone-stories-book-3-and-4/

🌟 New Interview! Award-winning author Andrea Hairston talks creativity, community, and crossing boundaries Discover her thoughts on storytelling, imagination, and why art thrives at the edges. 👉 horrortree.com/living-borde... #AuthorInterview #SpecFic #HorrorCommunity

Taking Submissions: The Tarot of Love horrortree.com/taking-submi... Deadline: November 10th, 2025 Payment: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints. Theme: Romantasy including seers, soothsayers, and diviners #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

🧠 Reprint Call! @tenebrouspress.bsky.social seeks previously published stories for Brave New Weird Vol. 4, celebrating the best New Weird Horror of 2024–2025. 💀 $25 + copy 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 1, 2025 Reprints only (Oct 31, 2024–Oct 31, 2025). 👉 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #SpecFic

Writing Prompt Wednesdays: Tooth Fairy from @corinnepwriter.bsky.social horrortree.com/writing-prom... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

🌈 Paying Market Alert! 🌈 @bonabooks.bsky.social is taking submissions for Fantabulosa - a celebration of fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative horror from queer authors. 💰 8¢/word/fiction | $50/poetry 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 30 (Dec 15 for trans authors & authors of color) 👉 horrortree.com/event/taking...