Horrific Scribes

Open to: Work must be human-generated; fiction containing any artificial-intelligence-generated material is not accepted.

Always open for original, dark, transgressive fiction, mostly horror and including dark fantasy, dark science fiction, surreal, experimental, unconventional, and challenging work. General stories should be 1,500–5,000 words; flash fiction of 1,000 words or shorter must use the separate flash-fiction path. Simultaneous submissions are okay, but no reprints or multiple submissions at once.

Open to: Work must be human-generated; fiction containing any artificial-intelligence-generated material is not accepted.

Always open for original prose fiction of 1,000 words or shorter; flash fiction must be submitted through the separate flash-fiction path, not the general-submissions form. The work should be dark, transgressive, scary, strange, unconventional, and challenging.

Open to: Work must be human-generated; poetry containing any artificial-intelligence-generated material is not accepted.

Always open for original dark poetry, including a small group of short poems or a couple of mid-length poems in one submission. Poetry should fit the publication’s provocative, scary, strange, and dark aesthetic.