NPR

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Why read horror stories when the real world is scary enough on its own? Because horror does more than scare us — it teaches us how to live with being scared, and how to fight back against evil.

Writing Magazine

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US indie Stark Raven Press specialises in fantastic and speculative literature, particularly horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy. They publish novels, collections, and anthologies of fiction, and occasionally non-fiction in print and ebook. Sub

Writing Magazine

43 min. di lettura

Short stories, up to 8,000 words, creative non-fiction, up to 4,000, and poems, up to 3 Prizes: $1,000 and publication in each category Entry fee: $15 Closing date: 1 October https://americanliteraryreview.com/ Poems up to 40 lines, promoting peace a

Poets & Writers

8 min. di lettura

MANY applicants to, and first-year students in, the MFA program in which I’m fortunate to teach—the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan—see short stories as the default mode of the apprentice fiction writer. There are plenty of

Apple Magazine

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Don’t throw away your Stephen King collection just yet. But the Master of the Macabre might want to keep an eye out behind him, because scientists have just unleashed a nightmare machine on a mission to churn out its own bone-chilling tales. MIT rese

The Paris Review

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One evening in Rome, in the kitchen of the Italian writer Caterina Bonvicini, I expressed a desire to assemble a collection of Italian short stories translated into English. It was March of 2016, during a brief trip back to Italy. Six months before,

The Writer

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I started writing seriously, with an aim toward making it my career, almost 40 years ago. I explored several genres – science fiction, fantasy, literary, mystery, and horror – before eventually focusing on the latter. It was inevitable, I suppose. Ho

Writing Magazine

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Terror Tract Publishing deals only in horror. Their goal is to ‘thrill, chill and scare the hell out of the reader’. The quarterly zine is ‘filled with stories, an interview, a column written by an amazing writer and some funny stuff.’ Both the zine

Writing Magazine

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Distant Shore Publishing is a niche publisher with a team which ‘loves little reads’. They like ‘bitesize fantasy, SF you can fit in your pocket, or litRPG that you can quickly consume’. LitRPG is a new genre - Literary Role Play Game – where the mai

NPR

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We asked you to tell us about your favorite horror novels and short stories, and you gave us more than 6,500 titles. Now, meet the expert judges who'll take those parts and create a beautiful monster.

NPR

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In honor of Frankenstein's 200th birthday, this year's summer reader poll is all about horror — from classics like Mary Shelley's monster to new favorites, we've got something to scare everyone.

Writing Magazine

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Cloaked Press is a small press specialising in fantasy and science fiction, which needs submissions of novels, novellas, and short stories for an anthology, ‘engaging, thought provoking, imaginative, and/or uproariously funny stories in just about an

Poets & Writers

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By Douglas Trevor MANY applicants to, and first-year students in, the MFA program in which I’m fortunate to teach—the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan—see short stories as the default mode of the apprentice fiction writer. Th

NPR

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Shaun Hamill's new novel uses the lens of horror to examine the ways we interact and fail to interact with each other, and the way a family can be held together by the very things that tear it apart.

TechLife News

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Don’t throw away your Stephen King collection just yet. But the Master of the Macabre might want to keep an eye out behind him, because scientists have just unleashed a nightmare machine on a mission to churn out its own bone-chilling tales. MIT rese

Literary Hub

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I wrote my first novel when I was 17 and published it when I was 21. It took me eight years to publish another novel. Those first two books are very different from each other, but they have some things in common: you can say that both are realistic n

Writing Magazine

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Set aside any notions that the countryside is a place of rest and retreat in the novels of Andrew Michael Hurley. The author’s take on folk horror turns the British countryside into disquieting landscapes – harsh places where malevolent forces are bu

NPR

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From the late '60s to the rise of Harry Potter in the late '90s, horror fiction had a hold on young readers, and there was something to scare everyone, from realistic thrillers to possessed dummies.

The Millions

6 min. di lettura

If you want to know what sickens a society, investigate its most disturbing art; the answers, usually, are there. The post Ten Essential Tales of Terror by Women appeared first on The Millions.

Guernica Magazine

8 min. di lettura

The award-winning writer on editing his first anthology, horror versus sci-fi, and the American tradition of voter suppression. The post Victor LaValle: Imagine Downton Abbey, but with Smells appeared first on Guernica.

Writing Magazine

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US small press Silver Shamrock Publishing is open for submission of unagented original horror and dark fiction novels and novellas. Editor Ken McKinley is interested in seeing ‘unique spins on classic horror tropes’, ranging from ghost stories and ha

Independent on Saturday

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THERE is a new breed of survivalist out there. He doesn’t have a ripped Bear Grylls physique, and he is more likely to finish off a pack of chips than a pig with his bare hands, but he is surviving the fall out of the Covid-19 pandemic better than th

Writing Magazine

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We’ve explored numerous aspects of fantasy and science-fiction here over the years, and one thing we know is that – on average – books in these genres tend to be longer than those in other forms. There are numerous reasons for this – you could argue

Writing Magazine

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Dark Moon Books editorial team promotes dark fiction by publishing multi-author anthologies and single author collections plus the occasional novel. They want ‘unusual and invigorating dark fiction’ which is ‘experimental, innovative, or progressive…

The Millions

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His debut novel ‘A Cosmology of Monsters’ is both a horror novel and a rich love story, told with tenderness and brimming with darkness. The post Shaun Hamill Has a Scary Story to Tell You appeared first on The Millions.

Writing Magazine

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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) 2019 Bram Stoker Awards for ‘superior achievements’ in the genre have been awarded as follows: Superior Achievement in a Novel, Coyote Rage, Owl Goingback; First Novel, The Bone Weaver’s Orchard, Sarah Read; Young

Literary Hub

4 min. di lettura

What does it say about a cultural moment where the most resonant narratives are horror stories? Among the finalists for this year’s PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, intended for “a book-length work of any genre for its originality, merit, and impact that h

Literary Hub

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This week, Victor LaValle’s new novel The Changeling hits shelves. This is only the most recent installment in a long series of great works of literary horror, and as a reader of primarily literary fiction, but with a major soft spot for, as they say

Literary Hub

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Anne Elizabeth Moore is the author of Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking, Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, The Manifesti of Radical Literature, and other books. She was the founding editor of the Best American Comics series, and

Writing Magazine

6 min. di lettura

For many of us, 2020 is not a year that we’re going to recall with a great deal of fondness – in fact, I’ll bet that most people will be pretty glad to see this one vanish in the rear-view mirror. But as one year ends another begins, and with that co