Madness Heart Press
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We have FOUR titles nominated for Wonderland Awards! Go vote: Nympho Shark Fuck Frenzy by Susan Snyder and Christine Morgan, The Expectant Mothers Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey, Kennel by Garret Cook, and Inappropriate Toasts for All Occasions by Michael Allen Rose! tinyurl.com/3cbhf59s
Cover for Nypho Shark Fuck Frenzy by Christine Morgan & Susan Snyder Cover to The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey Cover for Kennel by Garret Cook Cover for Inappropriate Toasts for All Occasions by Michael Allen Rose
madnessheartpress.bsky.social
Preorder your hard copy, out in one week! HOWLING OF THE UNFORTUNATE DEAD is the second book in John Baltisberger's MÖRK BORG novel series! Journey to the pitch black darkness of the Dying Lands... #MörkBorg #Books #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity madnessheart.press/product/howl...
Art card featuring a skeletal knight, pierced by many blades, resting his hands on a bloodstained broadsword. Text reads "Howling of the Unfortunate Dead: A Novel Compatible With Mörk Borg by John Baltisberger"
madnessheartpress.bsky.social
Brand new: Squirming All The Way Up by Joey Powell! Two brothers reunite in rural Virginia to reconcile after their split years ago. For one, it's a chance to indoctrinate his brother into the Fellowship of the First Divine. #Horror #Books madnessheart.press/product/squi...
Art card in the style of a scuffed 1980s paperback: a priest wearing a cross and Roman collar extends hands filled with wriggling worms. Text reads "Squirming All The Way Up by Joey Powell"
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hollowarchives.bsky.social
Submissions are open.

Horror. Fantasy. The strange and the sea-bound.

High school writers (ages 14–18)
Deadline Nov 30
The Hollow Archives await: HollowArchives.com

#HollowArchives #WritingContest #HighSchoolWriters #HorrorCommunity #SpeculativeFiction
The Hollow Archives - The Hollow Archives
Tales from the Black Sea submissions open! SUBMIT HERE! A space dedicated to showcasing the eerie, the unknown, and the extraordinary. The Hollow Archives hosts biannual writing contests in horror and...
HollowArchives.com
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thesharkqueen.com
We have room for a couple more submissions, y’all (if you haven’t heard back yet, it’s because it’s Monday but I’ll get back to you?! Horror or erotic horror or erotica, all welcome.
(No rape stories, please.)
thesharkqueen.com
Our backers are so amazing, we need to give them even more! Who wants in?
email submissions to [email protected] before 10/31!
We're putting together a zine for our amazing backers!
We have room for 3 more erotic horror flash fics for the Curiouser & Curiouser project! 500 - 1000 words, and just like the stories, $0.10 /word.
Ever wanted a reason to tell your scariest dirty story?
I'll take and thank you for the privilege. The only catch is that I need it before the campaign ends, October 31st. 
The theme is MONSTERS
Art is also welcome, paying $100 each for 2 drawings (already published is fine)
As always, theft (AI) is not welcome.
madnessheartpress.bsky.social
Out now! Gush - Tales of Vaginal Horror by @ginaranalli.bsky.social! Portal of wonders and moon-linked mysticism. Creator of life. Object of desire. However much you sugarcoat it, nature can be gross. Messy, pungent, painful, and downright horrific. #Horror #Books tinyurl.com/GRGush
Art card featuring a painting of a vaginal-looking orchid disgorging a wad of moist stamen. Text reads "Gush: Tales of Vaginal Horror by Gina Ranalli"
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leebaileswriter.bsky.social
Call for #submissions for Halloween - tales of “Outsider Monsters” - by WATG dakria.substack.com/p/call-for-s...? - #Flashfiction under 1k words. Any genre is welcome gothic, surreal, #horror, #fantasy, absurd, or something unclassifiable—as long as it fits the theme. #authors
Call for Submissions – WATG Halloween 2025
Theme: Outsider Monsters - Flash fiction under 1,000 words - Deadline: 11 October 2025 - Publication Date: 31 October 2025
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madnessheartpress.bsky.social
BRAND NEW: Bound With Briars by Charles R. Bernard! In a future dystopian American monarchy, inhuman experiments are carried out on prisoners in a pocket dimension. Now, however, a stranger has appeared to upset the balance. #WritingCommunity #Horror tinyurl.com/BoundWithBri...
Art card: a humanoid figure wearing soft, fungal-looking tan clothing and holding a soft-brimmed cowboy hat stands before a desolate background. His head from the eyes up ascends in pinkish-white ribbons of vapor. Text reads "Bound With Briars by Charles R. Bernard"
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thesharkqueen.com
Our backers are so amazing, we need to give them even more! Who wants in?
email submissions to [email protected] before 10/31!
We're putting together a zine for our amazing backers!
We have room for 3 more erotic horror flash fics for the Curiouser & Curiouser project! 500 - 1000 words, and just like the stories, $0.10 /word.
Ever wanted a reason to tell your scariest dirty story?
I'll take and thank you for the privilege. The only catch is that I need it before the campaign ends, October 31st. 
The theme is MONSTERS
Art is also welcome, paying $100 each for 2 drawings (already published is fine)
As always, theft (AI) is not welcome.
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dielaughingmag.bsky.social
Hey! Are you an artist? Is your work scary AND funny? Do you want to have your art on the cover of the most prestigious horror comedy publication we know of?

Great news! Die Laughing is accepting cover art submissions on an ongoing basis. Send us your art! dielaughingmag.com/c...
Composite mage of the covers of the first four issues of Die Laughing Magazine.
madnessheartpress.bsky.social
Brand new: PINS by Jessica McHugh! With cash and weed dwindling Birdie does what any 21-year-old woman would: gets a job dancing at a strip club / bowling alley called PINS and, as murders occur, begins to question her sexuality. #WritingCommunity a.co/d/2b0zkgJ
Art card featuring a dancer wound around a stripper's pole holding a severed leg. Text reads "PINS by Jessica McHugh" with the I in PINS represented by a stylized bowling pin.
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horrortree.com
Taking Submissions: It Came From the Trailer Park: Vol 6
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
Submission Window: May 1st, 2025 - July 1st, 2025
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Horror Comedy creature feature with the sub-theme of Prison Planet Earth
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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freginold.bsky.social
these scifi/fantasy/horror journals opened to submissions this week:

- Crimson Quill Quarterly
- Flash Point Science Fiction
- Haven Spec
- Inner Worlds Zine
- MetaStellar Magazine
- parABnormal Magazine
- Perseid Prophecies
- Polar Borealis (for fiction)
- Solarpunk Magazine

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madnessheartpress.bsky.social
BRAND NEW! Ten Words For A Wicked Woman by the inimitable Susan Snyder is out now! This book is a rant against our march backward into patriarchy. It's a gander at hypocrisy and inner turmoil. Let's dig into the pain, shall we? #Books #WritingCommunity a.co/d/cVw4LAH
Art card: a close-up photograph of a woman's dreamy-looking eye surrounded by a swirl of hair. Text reads "Ten Words For A Wicked Woman by Susan Snyder"
madnessheartpress.bsky.social
Preorder your hard copy, out on 10/15! HOWLING OF THE UNFORTUNATE DEAD is the second book in John Baltisberger's MÖRK BORG novel series! Bask in the bleak, pitch-black fantasy! #MörkBorg #Books #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity madnessheart.press/product/howl...
Art card featuring a skeletal knight, pierced by many blades, resting his hands on a bloodstained broadsword. Text reads "Howling of the Unfortunate Dead: A Novel Compatible With Mörk Borg by John Baltisberger"
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gossamerwight.com
WILL YOU BE SUBMITTING? Scan me with your phone. #SubmissionCall #Submissions #Anthology #Anthologies #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #GossamerWight #Writer #Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #ShortStory #ShortStories #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy #Eerie.
A colour QR code which ,when scanned by a mobile phone, leads to the GossamerWight Literary Magazine Anthology page for "Everyday Eerie."
madnessheartpress.bsky.social
Out now! BLADEJOB, by #Splatterpunk maestro Lucas Mangum, is a #horror novella that grapples with #prowrestling, blood rituals, and time travel! Pick it up today! #Books #ExtremeHorror tinyurl.com/LMBladejob
Art card featuring a bloody-faced pro wrestler with broken teeth and the text "BLADEJOB by Lucas Mangum"
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perseidprophecies.bsky.social
That eldritch entity we lovingly call "the reading team" is slowly waking from its month-long slumber.

Submissions for our winter 2026 issue open tomorrow and remain open until November 30th!

#submissioncall #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #sff #scifi #shortstory
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chadpoetforhire.bsky.social
Oddball Magazine's 2025 Horrorthon. A call for submissions. #poetry #fiction #artwork #photography #halloween #horror
The 2025 Horrorthon: A Call for Submissions - oddball magazine
Spooky times are here!
oddballmagazine.com
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mhp-games.bsky.social
Overgrowth is now available on @drivethrurpg.com! Using our BADASS system, guide your twisted nature druid into battle as you destroy powerful, corrupted corporate polluters! "Save the Planet. Unleash Mayhem." - Nate Southard, Author and Game Developer #TTRPGs legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/492064
Art card featuring a hunched, mossy nature druid with curling antlers facing off against a glistening pig monster emitting toxic green sludge from nozzles on its chest. Text reads "Overgrowth: A BADASS Game By John Baltisberger and Simone Tammetta"
madnessheartpress.bsky.social
Brand new: Squirming All The Way Up by Joey Powell! Two brothers reunite in rural Virginia to reconcile after their split years ago. For one, it's a chance to indoctrinate his brother into the Fellowship of the First Divine. #Horror #Books madnessheart.press/product/squi...
Art card in the style of a scuffed 1980s paperback: a priest wearing a cross and Roman collar extends hands filled with wriggling worms. Text reads "Squirming All The Way Up by Joey Powell"
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jakevanguard.bsky.social
@thatwriterjess.bsky.social and I are curating our first joint anthology - FUTURISTIC QUEER HORROR!

Check our website for more info. We're looking forward to your submission!
A graphic for an anthology call for a futuristic queer horror anthology. 
Short stories of
2,500-8,500 words

Queer characters and/or themes
Futuristic settings combined with horror elements

Preferred subgenres: techno-horror, cosmic horror, biomechanical horror 

Submissions open until:
20 January 2026

Curated by
Ezra Wren & Jake Vanguard
madnessheartpress.bsky.social
We have FOUR titles nominated for Wonderland Awards! Go vote: Nympho Shark Fuck Frenzy by Susan Snyder and Christine Morgan, The Expectant Mothers Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey, Kennel by Garret Cook, and Inappropriate Toasts for All Occasions by Michael Allen Rose! tinyurl.com/3cbhf59s
Cover for Nypho Shark Fuck Frenzy by Christine Morgan & Susan Snyder Cover to The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey Cover for Kennel by Garret Cook Cover for Inappropriate Toasts for All Occasions by Michael Allen Rose
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miseryvulture.bsky.social
I'm a simple woman with simple demands of the genre
Debbie Harry in Videodrome saying "Don't be afraid to let monsters be real"
madnessheartpress.bsky.social
NOW available in e-book (and in print on 10/15), HOWLING OF THE UNFORTUNATE DEAD is the second book in John Baltisberger's MÖRK BORG novel series! Bask in the bleak, pitch-black fantasy! #MörkBorg #Books #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity madnessheart.press/product/howl...
Art card featuring a skeletal knight, pierced by many blades, resting his hands on a bloodstained broadsword. Text reads "Howling of the Unfortunate Dead: A Novel Compatible With Mörk Borg by John Baltisberger"