Horrific Scribes

Open now for fiction and poetry.

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Horrific Scribes is an online archive publishing dark, provocative, and unconventional short fiction (mainly horror and adjacent genres) and some poetry.

Response time info: two to three weeks (sometimes faster)

Read the full guidelines at horrificscribblings.com↗

Submission calls

fictionHorrorFantasyScience FictionPays: $25 per accepted submission

Dark, transgressive fiction: mostly horror (all subgenres, bloodless to extreme), but also horror-adjacent such as dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, and surreal or experimental work with dark edges; unconventional, challenging, and worth thinking about; 1,500 to 5,000 words preferred (some wiggle room…

poetryHorrorFantasyScience FictionPays: $25 per accepted submission

Dark poetry (a small group of short poems or a couple of mid-length poems per submission); must fit the archive's focus on the provocative, scary, and strange; no reprints, no AI.

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