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MONSTER MAYHEM is open for Halloween horror 🎃

Looking for:
Halloween-themed tales with a monster (or a whole nest of them), 1,500–7,500 words, paying $15 via PayPal. Only 10 stories will make the cut. Deadline: Aug 31, 2026.

Guidelines: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#amwriting #horror #halloween
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#BookReview: DEAD FAKE by Vincent Ralph 📱🩸
AI “death” videos, a town full of murderers in the ground, & a girl whose infamous uncle turned her life into a true-crime footnote. Campy premise, strong characters, & a lot of heart.
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reviewer: @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
CRUX 2026 Volume 1 is open for Aussie spec fic, fantasy & horror 🇦🇺✨

📅 Dec 1, 2025 – Jan 31, 2026
🧪 Up to 7,000 words
💰 3c AUD/word, min $80 AUD
🖋️ Poetry: $20 AUD/poem

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#amwriting #specfic #auswriting
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM is open for Weird Cosmic Body Horror/SFF from trans & GNC voices 🌌🫀

🌀 Up to 4,000 words
💉 3c/w originals, $25 reprints
📅 Deadline: Jan 10, 2026
♻️ Reprints welcome, simsubs ok

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

@tenebrouspress.bsky.social
#amwriting #horror #SFF
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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we like publishing books and it's cool when you read them and talk about them, thank you
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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#MustRead horror this week: @bloody-disgusting.com remember 6 times an animal actor deserved the oscar in a horror movie, @horrortree.com head all the way to New Zealand to find the creators of modern Kiwi horror, The Lineup recommend 5 fantastic Jewish horror creators ...

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November 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Tales of Sley House is open Dec 1–3 for cozy folk horror on Patreon 🍂🏡

Stories, poems, and art that feel warm on the surface with rot underneath. Up to 6k words, 35 dollars per piece, later in Tales of Sley House.

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

@sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social
#amwriting
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🔥 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BUTCH BAIT 🔥
An anthology celebrating butch4butch, stud4stud & masc4masc desire across any genre — fiction, poetry, art, erotica, photography.

💰 $10 + epub copy
📅 Deadline: Jan 1, 2026
Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

From @mjmarlowe.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New on Horror Tree: #bookreview of Shadows of Villisca by Hugo Swanepoel 🕵️‍♂️🩸
A modern investigation into the 1912 Villisca axe murders, cold cases, cults, and ciphers that refuse to stay buried. Noir mystery vibes with a fast, investigative pace
Read the review: horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...
#horror
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Baffling Magazine’s Dec 1–15 window is coming up 🌀

Queer “timefuckery” + other speculative flash
✨ SF/F/H with a queer bent
✨ Under 1,200 words (they love <500)
✨ 8¢/word, simsubs encouraged

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#amwriting #flashfiction #queerfiction
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🌟 DreamForge is now open for Winter 2025 submissions!
They want optimistic sci-fi & fantasy that celebrates connection, hope, and the human spirita about “Open Channel: The Art of Connection”
Pays $0.08/word Due: Dec 31, 2025.
Submit: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Scarlett Press is here to steal some hearts (and maybe a few souls). 🩸📚

Simon & Schuster’s new New Adult imprint launches with dark lords, fae courts, monsters, and romantasy galore.

Get the details: horrortree.com/scarlett-pre...

#ScarlettPress #Romantasy #HorrorTree
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This week’s #TremblingWithFear creeps in with The Manuscript by Lucien R. Starchild📖🕯️
w/drabbles by Margaret Eve, Nicolette M. Ward, & Jordan McClymont.
Read it here: horrortree.com/trembling-wi...
By: @lucienrstarchild.bsky.social @ariskari.bsky.social @shadowsbetween.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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A huge thank you to @horrortree.com for mentioning my @molotovlitzine.bsky.social prize winning flash story 'We Were Never Afraid of the Spider' in their This Week in Speculative Fiction newsletter! Available to read here:
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The Molotov Cocktail
We Were Never Afraid of the Spider by Timothy Fox Our third-grade teacher was named Mrs. Winters. She wore glasses that magnified her green and blue and green eyes. Her hair was a dried hornet’s ne…
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November 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
New on Horror Tree: our review of WOLF WORM by T. Kingfisher 🐛📖

Gothic horror in 1899 North Carolina, parasitic maggots, “blood thieves,” and a narrator you won’t forget. This one burrows in and stays there.

Read the review: horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...

#horror #bookreview #amreading
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We are introduced to the grave of Bedo in the first chapter of our new Serial Saturday, Hide Behind by Molly May Jones:

horrortree.com/serial-satur...

#Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New anthology call: Screams and Wails 🎶🩸

Seeking original horror short stories with music at their still-beating heart. Think cursed instruments, haunted studios, or songs that drive listeners mad.

💰 1p/word (max £50)
🕛 Jan 1–Feb 28, 2026
📖 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#HorrorCommunity #OpenCall
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Step into the eerie world of modern Kiwi horror, where Māori myth, wild landscapes, and unsettling folklore blend into something unforgettable. From taniwha to ghost-haunted fjords, these stories reveal the darker side of Aotearoa.
Read more: horrortree.com/tales-from-t...
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A 'generational haunting' binding blood and tradition. Discover more in this week's Unholy Trinity, "Bloodline Evergreen" by Nicolette Ward.

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#fiction #free #freefiction #TWF #amreading #amwriting #writerslife #bookworm #indiewriter #indieauthorthings
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Looking for a home for your short, punchy spec fic? Hollow Oak Presents: Acorns wants 1,000–1,500 word stories with a strong speculative element (they especially love fantasy).

💵 $5 flat payment
📝 Previously unpublished only

Details: horrortree.com/ongoing-subm...

@hollowoakpress.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Writers - here’s your next prompt! 📝

The First Line is seeking stories that begin with:
“I flipped through the notebook and found half-finished poems, some drawings, and __________.”

💰 $25–$50 fiction, $5–$10 poetry
🕛 Deadline: Feb 1, 2026
📖 horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#WritingCommunity
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🌙 Nyctalocos: A Collection of Night Terrors opens Feb 1–28, 2026!

Send your stories of sleep paralysis, midnight dread, and the shadows beyond the veil. Explore the deeper terrors of the night.

💰 $10 per 1K words + contributor copy
📖 horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#HorrorWriters #OpenCall
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Submissions are open soon for Heightened Anxiety, an anthology seeking suspenseful, nerve-tightening fiction that gets the heartbeat going.
📅 Window: Dec 1, 2025–Feb 28, 2026
✍️ 2,000–7,000 words
💰 $10 + D2D royalty share
❌ No AI, no reprints, no sim-subs

Full details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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