The Dark

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The Dark is a monthly online magazine seeking horror and dark fantasy fiction, including eligible reprints.

Response time info: As short as one minute to as long as forty-eight hours; query after one week.

Read the full guidelines at thedarkmagazine.com↗

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Seeks horror and dark fantasy fiction, including experimental work that falls outside regular categories, but not graphic, violent horror. Fiction should be 2,000–6,000 words. Reprints from established print markets within the past two years are considered; original fiction pays 5 cents/word and reprints pay 1 cent/word.

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