Call for Submissions

I edit The Best Horror of the Year for (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the sixteenth volume, covering material published in 2023.

I am looking for stories and poetry from all branches of horror: supernatural, uncanny, sf horror, psychological, dark crime, terror tales, or anything else that might qualify.

This is an all reprint anthology, so I’ll only consider material published in 2023. Deadline is December 1st 2023.

Authors please confirm that your publishers are sending me review copies. If a book or magazine is coming out after my deadline, I’ll look at galleys or manuscripts. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE.

The only excuse is if you’re a foreign publisher and shipping everything at one time saves postage. If you want your work to get a fair read, do not do this.

I’ll look at e-versions of anthos and collections only if they’re navigable and have running heads. Otherwise, they won’t be read. I always prefer print, if available.

Authors can query as to whether I have/need your collection or an anthology/magazine in which you have a story at datlow@yahoo.com.

My summation of “the year in horror” includes novels, anthologies, collections, nonfiction, poetry, art books, and “odds and ends”– material that doesn’t fit elsewhere but that might interest horror readers.
Ellen Datlow
Best Horror of the Year Volume Sixteen
8 Stuyvesant Oval 9G
NY NY 10009

I regularly cover most magazines/webzines that publish horror: F&SF, The Dark, Nightmare, Not One of Us, crime digests, Horrorzine, Uncanny, Apex-when their publishers send me the material. If you’re not sure, ask them first).

Please ask your publisher to send the entire magazine or anthology-unless the venue doesn’t regularly publish horror. In that case, you can send me a word file of your story. For online publications, email individual word doc files—not pdf files– include on the ms where and when the story has been published.

If I choose a story you will be informed. Otherwise, you will not hear back.
Ellen Datlow
www.datlow.com

 

 

 

Acevedo, Mario “Xipe Totec,” Shadow Atlas.

Addison, Linda D. “Veiled Intentions,” (poem) Under Twin Suns.

Aguirre, Forrest “Obverse Reverse,” Underland Arcana 4

Albrecht, Andrin “Gloria,” Not One of Us #68.

Alexander, Phoenix “Nails,” The Dark #76, September.

Anderson, Colleen “Cinnabar,” Shadow Atlas.

Antonia, Nina “Away,” Uncertainties Volume V.

Arcuri, Meghan “Green With Hunger,” Classic Monsters Unleashed.com

Arnzen, Michael “The Umami of Blood,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII.

Arrington, Chelsea “Sisters,” (poem) Spectral Realms 14 winter.

Aw, Davian “flight to nowhere,” (poem) Star*Line spring 44.2

Bacon, Stephen “The Undulating,” Black Static #78/79.

Baggott, Juliana “Inkmorphia,” Nightmare #110, November.

Baker, Jo “Original Features,” The Black Dreams: Strange Stories From Northern Ireland.

Ballingrud, Nathan “A Brief Tour of the Night,” Beyond the Veil.

Barb, Patrick “Casual,” Not One of Us #67.

Barb, Patrick “Woof,” Humans Are the Problem.

Barker, David “An Ill Wind,” (poem) Spectral Realms 14 winter.

Barron, Jon “Barefoot Banjo Girl,” Supernatural Tales 46 spring.

Barron, Laird “American Remakeof a JapaneseGhostStory,”There Is NoDeath,ThereAreNoDead.

Batchelor, Nathan “Reggie,” Underland Arcana 2.

Baxter, Alan “48 To Go,” The Gulp.

Baxter, Alan “Come His Children,” Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3.

Baxter, Alan “Out On a Rim,” The Gulp.

Bechko, Corinna “A Darkness a Little Too Bright,” Corridor 1.

Bell, Peter “A Wee Dram For the Road,” Sacred and Profane.

Bell, Peter “Haunted,” Ibid.

Bell, Peter “The Ice House,” Ibid.

Bell, Peter “The Shadow of the Cross,” Ibid.

Bell, Peter “The Strange Death of Sophie Van Der Wielen,” Ibid.

Bergmann, F. J. “The Meadows of Night,” (poem) Spectral Realms 15 summer.

Berguño, George “The Dogs of Valparaiso,” The Sad Eyes of the Lewis Chessman.

Bernthold, Sydney “Dogfood,” (poem) Star*Line summer 44.3

Bestwick, Simon “ Ermenonville,” Patreon.

Bestwick, Simon “ Go Get It, Girl,” (poem) Patreon.

Bestwick, Simon “ Goliath’s Song,” (poem) Patreon.

Bestwick, Simon “And You Heard the Rattling Death Train,” Railroad Tales.

Bestwick, Simon “Below Decks on the Morro Castle,” (poem) Patreon.

Bestwick, Simon “Beneath the Crust,” Patreon.

Bestwick, Simon “Jarman’s Ghost,” (poem) Patreon.

Bestwick, Simon “Oubliette,” (poem) Patreon.

Bestwick, Simon “The Book of Nightmares,” (poem) Patreon.

Bestwick, Simon “The Cage,” (poem) Nine Ghosts.

Bestwick, Simon “The Call,” (poem) Patreon.

Bestwick, Simon “We Pray,” Patreon.

Bestwick, Simon “Whaleback,” (poem) Patreon.

Bingcang, Marla, “Mushroom Head,” Apparition Literary Magazine Issue 15, July.

Birnie, Seán Padraic “Hand-Me-Down,” I Would Haunt You If I Could.

Birnie, Seán Padraic “I Would Haunt You If I Could,” I Would Haunt You If I Could.

Birnie, Seán Padraic “Like a Zip,” I Would Haunt You If I Could.

Birnie, Seán Padraic “New To It All,” I Would Haunt You If I Could.

Birnie, Seán Padraic “You Know What To Do,” I Would Haunt You If I Could.

Bissett, Carina “Twice in the Telling,” Upon a Twice Time.

Blackburn, Roland “God the Silvered Halls,” Beautiful Grotesque.

Blair, Kelly “Clandestine,” (poem) Star*Line summer 44.3

Bolivar, Adam “Jack BloodyBones,” (poem) Spectral Realms 14 winter.

Bond, Charlotte “Red Antlers,” They’re Out to Get You.

Bond, Charlotte “the Finest Pineapples in Derbyshire,” Shoot.

Booth III, Max “Noise,” In Darkness Delight Volume Three.

Boskovich, Desirina “I Let You Out,” Nightmare #100, January.

Bowles, David “El Sombrerón,” Both Sides.

Braum, Daniel “The Hand of Fire,” The Jewish Book of Horror.

Braunbeck, Gary A. “Light on Broken Glass,” There Comes a Midnight Hour.

Brockway, Barbara “Eye of Newt,” Dread Imaginings, February.

Brown, Gordon “It Looked Like Her,” Nightscript VII.

Brown, Jena “They Don’t Eat Teeth,” What One Wouldn’t Do.

Bulkin, Nadia “A Luta Continua,” Prisms.

Bulkin, Nadia “One Day Across the Valley,” Corridor 1.

Bulkin, Nadia “Someday You Will Regret Not Replying,” Southwest Review, Autumn.

Caballero, Cecilia, “The Revenge of Henrietta Lacks,” (poem) Star*Line summer 44.3

Cade, Octavia “Tidemarks,” Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology…

Cade, Octavia “Worm Blood,” The Dark #71, April.

Campbell, Ramsey “First a Bird,” Uncertainties Volume V.

Campbell, Ramsey “Still Hungry,” Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology…

Campbell, Tara “In the City of Feasting Banshees,” (poem) Star*Line fall 44.4.

Cancilla, Dominick “Locusts,” In Darkness Delight Volume Three.

Canfield, Michael “The Main Street Robbery,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 1 Spring.

Carroll-Bradd, Shenoa “Attend, Attend,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 1 Spring.

Casey, KD “The Last Plague,” The Jewish Book of Horror.

Cashmore, Stephen “From Ghosts,” Supernatural Tales 48 fall.

Castle, Mort “Perspective: Journal of a 1980s Mad Man,” Attack From the 80s.

Castro Adam-Troy “Glimpses in Amber, Nightmare #110, November.

Castro, Adam-Troy “Rotten Little Town: An Oral History,” Nightmare #100, January.

Castro, V. Goddess of Filth. Chapbook.

Chabin, Matthew “Mother Winter,” The Lost Librarian’s Grave.

Chamberlain-King, Reggie “The Missing Girl…”The Black Dreams: Strange Stories From….

Chapman, Clay McCleod “Stowaway,” Southwest Review, Autumn.

Chatterjee, Saswati “In the War, the Wall,” Weird Horror #3.

Cheney, Matthew “Hunger,” The Dark #79 December.

Chiaragáin, Saoirse Ni “Geisterbahnof,” Railroad Tales.

Chislett, Michael “The Entity Extractor,” Supernatural Tales 46 spring.

Chronister, Kay “Moon-Eyed Women,” Shadow Atlas.

Chronister, Kay “The Yoke of the Aspens,” The Dark, #69, February.

Cisco, Michael “Milking,” Antisocieties.

Clark, Stephen J. “The Tupilaq,” Songs of the Northern Seas.

Clarke, Aislinn “Skeleton Day,” Uncertainties Volume V.

Cleaveland, Kristin “Saturniidae,” Southwest Review, Autumn.

Cleveland, Kristin “Thicker Than Water,” Blood and Bone.

Cluley, Ray “The Hufaidh Sounder,” They’re Out to Get You.

Coffman, Frank “A Thin Place,” (poem) Eclipse of the Moon.

Coffman, Frank “The Decipherment,” (poem) Eclipse of the Moon.

Cohen, Michael Harris “I Pay You,” On Spec #118.

Coles, Donyae “Sometimes Boys Don’t Know,” Nightmare #106, July.

Coles, Donyae “Thalia Was Alone,” Weird Horror #3.

Coles, Donyae “There Is No Difference Between…”(poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII.

Conyers, David “Supersymmetry Blues,”  Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3.

Cook, Georgia “Nothing Personal,” Humans Are the Problem.

Cook, Georgia “Sometimes It’s Just Like Hiding,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 2 Fall.

Cooney, C.S. E. “Salissay’s Laundries,” Dark Breakers.

Cosby. M.R. “Brokehaven Lighthouse,” The Trains Don’t Stop Here.

Cosby. M.R. “Dark Matter,” The Trains Don’t Stop Here.

Cosby. M.R. “The Trains Don’t Stop Here,” The Trains Don’t Stop Here.

Costello, Rob “Whatever Happened to the Boy Who Fell Into the Lake,” F&SF July/Aug.

Couturier, Scott J. “To Kiss Death’s Shroud,” (poem) Spectral Realms 15 summer.

Couzens, Gary “Short Platform,” Railroad Tales.

Craven, M. W. “The Moss-Trooper,” Terror Tales of The Scottish Lowlands.

Croal, Lyndsey “First Blood,” Best Women’s Short Fiction 2021.

Crosbie, Mary “Sickness and Health,” Not One of Us #68.

Crow, Jennifer “Bound Wings,” (poem) Not One of Us Issue #65.

Crow, Jennifer “The Mermaid Conundrum, ,” (poem) Not One of Us Issue #66.

Curran, Tim “Heatseeker,” Weirdbook #44.

Curran, Tim “Neuroworm,” In Darkness Delight Volume Three.

 

Da Silva, M. Lopes “A House Without Ghosts,” In Somnio.

Daniels, Gillian “Frost Bloom,” Nightmare #108, September.

Dansky, Richard “On Seas of Blood and Salt,” The Jewish Book of Horror.

Davitt, Deborah L. “A Garden of Flesh,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII.

Dawn, Randee “Cat Person,” Horror For the Throne.

Dawn, Randee “Rough Beast, Slouching,” Dim Shores Presents Volume 2 spring

Dawson, Sam “A Fine Cellar,” Pariah and Other Stories.

Dawson, Sam “I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) Fifth BFH Book of Horror Stories.

Dawson, Sam “The Minds Within,” Supernatural Tales 48 fall.

Day, Victoria “Cutters,” They’re Out to Get You.

Day, Victoria “Mr. Winter’s Tale Or, Mr Nobody,” Supernatural Tales 48 fall.

Deady, Tom Of Men and Monsters. Chapbook

DeBord, Amanda “Bullies,” They’re Out to Get You.

DeLucci, Theresa “Only My Skin That Crawled Away,” Weird Horror #3.

Demchuk, David “Anoushka the Christmas Spider,” Unfortunately, December.

Demchuk. David “A Feather For Mrs. Edmond,” There Is No Death, There Are No Dead.

DeMeester, Kristi “A Good Boy,” Corridor 1.

DeMeester, Kristi “In This There is No Sting,” Prisms.

Derwin, Theresa “Shift Left for Love,” Were Tales.

Ditrich, Julie “The Depiction,” Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3.

Douglas, Malina “The Lay of the Anguished Sea-Beast,” (poem) Eye To the Telescope, issue 42.

Dowling, Terry “The Five Sisters,” Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology…

Due, Tananarive “The Wishing Pool,” Uncanny #41, July/August.

Duffy, Steve “The Acolyte’s Triptych,” Ars Gratia Sanguis.

Duffy, Steve “The Last House on Mullible Street,” Finding Yourself in the Dark.

Duffy, Steve “The Other Four O’Clock,” Ibid.

Dunato, Jelena “Immortelle,” The Dark #70, March.

Eaton, Sarah Lyn “When the Dust Settles,” Unburied: A Collection of Queer Dark Fiction.

Edwards, Jan “Penumbra Over Mill Wall,” Weirdbook #44.

Edwards, Jan “The Devil’s Piss Pot,” The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror.

Effress, Inna “Malady of Laughter,” Uncertainties Volume V.

Elgammal, Hamdy “A Vacation Story,” Bourbon Penn 23.

Ellis, Stephanie “Death Mask,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII.

Enriquez, Mariana “Cart,” The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.

Enriquez, Mariana “Meat,” The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.

Enriquez, Mariana “No Birthdays or Baptisms,” The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.

Enriquez, Mariana “Where Are You, Dear Heart,” The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.

Evans, Louis “Lazaret,” Bourbon Penn 25.

Evans, Louis “Other People’s Ghosts,” Underland Arcana 3

Evenson, Brian “Daylight Come,” The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell.

Evenson, Brian “Leaving Leeds,” Hymns of Abomination.

Evenson, Brian “The Barrow Men,” Unsaid 8/The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell.

Evenson, Brian “The Sequence,” Conjunctions: 77: States of Play.

Evenson, Brian “The Shimmering Wall,” Prisms/The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell.

Evenson, Brian “Untitled (Cloud of Blood)” Ars Gratia Sanguis.

Everson, John “Arnie’s Ashes, Beyond the Veil.

Eze, Ifeanyichukwu Peter “The Other Side,” The Dark #74, July.

Fahey, Tracy “I Kiss the Wounds,” I Spit Myself Out.

Fahey, Tracy “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” Ibid.

Fahey, Tracy “Love Like Blood,” Ibid.

Fahey, Tracy “Noli Me Tangere,” Ibid.

Fahey, Tracy “The Wrong Ones,” Ibid.

Falowo, Dare Segun “Divine in the House of Hunger,” The Dark #74, July.

Farrenkopf, Cory “The Man of Seaweed and Reeds,” Humans Are the Problem.

Fawver, Kurt “This Story Will Kill You,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 2 Fall.

Fenn, J. Lincoln “The Secrets of My Prison House,” Prisms.

Fidler, Gayle “The Nibbler,” Railroad Tales.

Files, Gemma “Cuckoo,” In That Endlessness, Our End.

Files, Gemma “Haunt Me,” There Is No Death, There Are No Dead.

Files, Gemma “Pear of Anguish,” When Things Get Dark.

Files, Gemma “Red Words,” Sisterhood: Secret Histories and Dark Tales.

Files, Gemma “Suddenly My House Became a Tree of Sores,” Hymns of Abomination.

Files, Gemma “Uncertainty,” Tales From Omnipark.

Files, Gemma “Yellowback,” Beyond the Veil.

Finch, Paul “Uncaged,” They’re Out to Get You.

Fintushel, Eliot “Fiat, Fiat, Fiat,” The Dark #77, October.

Fisher, Colin “In Orbis Alius,” Songs of the Northern Seas.

Flynn, Geneve “Guest of Honour,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Flynn, Geneve “Mouth, and Feet, and Hands, and Eyes” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Flynn, Geneve “Stay Down,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Flynn, Geneve “When the Girls Began To Fall,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Ford, Douglas “Officer Baby Boy Blue,” The Half That You See.

Ford, Douglas “We Are the Gorillas,” Nightscript VII.

Ford, Jeffrey “Inn of the Dreaming Dog,” Big Dark Hole.

Ford, Jeffrey “Monkey in the Woods,” Big Dark Hole.

Ford, Jeffrey “The Door in the Fence,” When Things Get Dark.

Ford, Jeffrey “The Last Booth,” Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology…

Ford, Robert “T.H.O.R.N.:The Human Organ Repossession Network,” Chilling Crime.

Forrest, Francesca “Taint,” (poem) Not One of Us Issue #65.

Forte, Jennifer “Teke-Teke,” White Enso.

Foster, Alan Dean “Death’s Coachman,” (poem) F&SF May/June.

Foster, C.R. “Adaptation,” Black Static #80/81.

Fracassi, Philip “Aquarium Diver,” Humans Are the Problem.

Fracassi, Philip “Harvest,” Beneath a Pale Sky.

Fracassi, Philip “Marmalade,” The Bad Book.

Fracassi, Philip “Over 1,000,000 Copies in Print,” New Maps of Dream.

Fracassi, Philip “The Wheel,” Beneath a Pale Sky.

Frederic, Tori “In the Night Forest,” Underland Arcana 2.

Freeling, Evelyn “What Goes Down, Must Come Up,” Blood and Bone.

Freivald, Patrick “Field Trip,” Under Twin Suns.

Freymiller, Laur A. “The Mothers,” Nightmare #111, December.

Frigieri, Stefano “Okiko’s Doll,” trans. Amanda Blee. Weirdbook #44.

Fullerton, H. L. “Caprine Heartburn,” Underland Arcana 2.

Gallagher, Stephen “A Mystery For Julie Chu,” Beyond the Veil.

Gallen, Michelle “The Tempering,” The Black Dreams: Strange Stories From Northern Ireland.

García-Rosas, Nelly Geraldine “Still Life With Vial of Blood,” Nightmare #108, September.

German, Wade “Goblin Laughter,” (poem) Spectral Realms 15 summer.

German, Wade “Old Sorcery,” (poem) Spectral Realms 15 summer.

Giannini, Alex “Safe as Houses,” The Half That You See.

Gilbert, Lyndsay E. “I Exist,” Terrifying Ghost Stories.

Glass, Alexander “The Great West Gate,” Black Static #78/79.

Goddard, Harry “Çrowsfeet,” Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #82.

Goffman, Barb “That Poor Woman,” EQMM Jan/Feb.

Goingback, Owl “Blood of Angels,” (poem) Shadow Atlas.

Gold Maxwell I. “Of Masks and Monsters,” (poem) Oblivion in Flux.

Gold Maxwell I. “Strings in the Dark,” (poem) Oblivion in Flux.

Gold, Maxwell I. “Laughter Out of the Sea,” (poem) Spectral Realms 15 summer.

Gold, Maxwell I. “Nightmare of Ink, Dreams in Blood,” (poem) Spectral Realms 14 winter.

Gold, Maxwell I. “Of Masks and Monsters,” (poem) Spectral Realms 15 summer.

Gold, Maxwell I. “The Fisherman’s Last Call,” Tales From Omnipark.

Gomel, Elana “Bread and Salt,” The Jewish Book of Horror.

Gore, Michael “The Tracks,” Railroad Tales.

Grant, Helen “All Things That Are Reproved,” Songs of the Northern Seas.

Grant, Helen “The Field Has Eyes, the Wood Has ears,” Ars Gratia Sanguis.

Grant, John Linwood “On Hunger Hills,” Hymns of Abomination.

Grant, P. B. The Eden Spills,” (poem) Spectral Realms 15 summer.

Granville, Timothy “The Summer King’s Day,” Nightscript VII.

Gray, Caspian “Empty Houses,” Nightmare #105, June.

Gray, Lora “And in Rain, Blank Pages,” F&SF September/October.

Gray, Muriel “From Life,” Ars Gratia Sanguis.

Greenblatt, A. T. “The Family in the Adit,” Nightmare #103, April.

Gresham, Anne “Conjure Blood,” Diabolica Americana.

Grey, Orrin “Chanson D’Amour,” Nightmare #108, September.

Grey, Orrin “The Robot Apeman Waits for the Nightmare Blood…,” Tales From Omnipark.

Grifant, KC “A Woman’s Weapon,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII.

Guerin, Casey “What Consumes You,” The Greensboro Review spring.

Gwilym, Douglas “Year Six,” Lamplight Volume 10 issue 1, September.

Gyzander, Carol “The Yellow Crown,” Under Twin Suns.

Hadzic, Vera “Bloodletting,” Underland Arcana 4.

Hammond, Warren, “Taste of Sorry,” Shadow Atlas.

Hand, Elizabeth “For Sale By Owner,” When Things Get Dark.

Hannett, Lisa L. “A Tanglesmithed Tale,” Songs of the Northern Seas.

Hannett, Lisa L. “If, Then,” Beyond the Veil.

Hardy, Lucie McKnight “Blind Man’s  Bluff,” Ars Gratia Sanguis.

Hardy, Lucie McKnight “Cavities,” Dead Relatives.

Hardy, Lucie McKnight “Chooks Don’t Have Teeth,” Dead Relatives.

Hardy, Lucie McKnight “Dead Relatives,” (novella) Dead Relatives.

Hardy, Lucie McKnight “Parroting,” Dead Relatives.

Hardy, Lucie McKnight “The Puckering,” Dead Relatives.

Hawkins, Christopher “Ten and Gone,” Underland Arcana 3.

Haynes, Katherine “Aunt Hilda’s Villa,” Supernatural Tales 48 fall.

Headley, Maria Dahvana “Wolfsbane, Nightmare #100, January.

Hendrix, Grady “Stranger Danger,” Attack From the 80s.

Hensley, Chad “Witch’s Barrow,” (poem) Weirdbook #44.

Heuler, Karen “Money of the Dead,” When Things Get Dark.

Hicks, Sam “Not Just Museums,” Dreamland.

Higgins, John Patrick “The Wink and the Gun,” The Black Dreams: Strange Stories From.

Hill, Matt Neil “The Parts That Hurt Me the Most,” Violent Vixens.

Hilton, Alicia “Oleander and Wolfsbane,” (poem) Spectral Realms 15 summer.

Hirshberg, Glen “Jetty Sara,” December Tales.

Hoffman, Nina Kiriki “Selfies,” Underland Arcana 1.

Holliday, S. J. I. “Birds of Prey,” Terror Tales of The Scottish Lowlands.

Huang, Lituo “Fluff and Fold,” Dark Matter October.

Hubbard, Kathy “Familiar,” Supernatural Tales 46 spring.

Huguenin, Timothy G. “Av_Nest. Casefile,” Dim Shores Presents Volume 2 spring.

Hunter, Ian “Night Out At the Old Circus,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII.

Ifeanyichukwu, Peter Eze “The Other Side,” The Dark #74, July.

Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar, “The Zoo,” trans Arunava Sinha The Gollancz Bk of S Asian SFVol2.

Isandro, Benicio “Revelation 9:15,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII.

Jablonsky, William “Orange Eyes,” Bourbon Penn 23.

Jacobs, George “The Pier Station,” Railroad Tales.

Jacobs, John Horner “The Astronaut,” Southwest Review, Autumn.

Jacobson, Karie “Red Cloak,” (poem) Star*Line summer 44.3

Jakeman, Jane “A Ploughed Field,” Supernatural Tales 46 spring.

Jakeman, Jane “Toads,” Supernatural Tales 47 summer.

James, Alexander “The Body Trick,” Nightscript VII.

Jeffreys, Tim “Here Comes Mr. Herribone,” Supernatural Tales 46 spring.

Jeffreys, Tim “The Daughters,” The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 3.

Joan, Mark “Unmaskings,” Weird Horror #2, spring.

Jones, C.B. “Cold As Ice,” The Rules of the Road.

Jones, Scott R. “A Delicate Spreading,” Hymns of Abomination.

Jones, Scott R. “The Darkness Over Dylath-Leen,” New Maps of Dream.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Another Cold Night In Denver,” Stokercon 2021 anthology.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Hairy Legs and All,” Nightmare #101 February.

Jones, Stephen Graham “How to Break Into a Hotel Room,” Nightmare #100, January.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Refinery Road,” When Things Get Dark.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Ten Miles of Bad Road,” Attack From the 80s.

Jones, Tyler “Trigger,” Chilling Crime.

Joseph, R. J. “Mine Offenses,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII.

Kadrey, Richard “A Trip to Paris,” When Things Get Dark.

Kadrey, Richard “Across the Dark Water,” Tor.com February 3.

Kamei, Cheri “Monsters Calling Home,” What One Wouldn’t Do.

Kaplan, Jo “These Birdhouses Are Empty Now,” Black Static #78/79.

Kaufmann, Nicholas “Daughter of Echidna,” Giving the Devil His Due.

Kaveney, Roz “Ballad of the Shoot,” (poem) Shoot.

Keene, Shane Douglas, “Seven Snapshots of a Broken Heart, “ (poem) What One Wouldn’t Do.

Keevil, Tyler “Delivery,” Black Static #78/79.

Kelly,  Michael “In the Still of the Night,” Not One of Us Issue #65.

Kelly, Michael “That Which Crawls From Dark Soil,” Nightmare #102, March.

Kenny, Peter “The Grieving,” Supernatural Tales 46 spring.

Kenwell, Catherine “Cramps,” Dark Drabbles.

Key, Justin C. “Now You See Me,” Lightspeed #135 August.

Khanna, Rajan “Your Ticket to Hell,” Fantasy,# 68, June.

Khaw, Cassandra “Quiet Dead Things,” When Things Get Dark.

Khaw, Cassandra Nothing But Blackened Teeth (novella). Tor.com.

Khoa, Ngo Binh Ahn “Borrowed Time,” Penumbra No. 2.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “L’homme et la femme terribles” Sirenia Digest 176.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Metamorphosis D (Imago),” Sirenia Digest 191.                   

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Pygmalion As a Hammer,” Sirenia Digest 185.                      

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “The Jar,” Sirenia Digest 182.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “The Man Who Loved What Was,” Sirenia Digest 174.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Two Monsters Walk Into a Bar,” Sirenia Digest 183.

Kilworth, Garry “The Head,” The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 3.

King-Miller, Lindsey “How to Build a Sukkah at the End… ,” The Jewish Book of Horror.

Kiste, Gwendolyn “Sister Glitter Blood,” Violent Vixens.

Knightley, Rachel “The Other Woman,” Beyond Glass.

Knightley, Rachel “Wolf in the Mirror,” Beyond Glass.

Knippling, DeAnna “The Woman Who Was Seen,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 1 Spring.

Koja, Kathe “Pursuivant Island,” Voices in the Darkness.

Kuraria, David “Silent is the River,” Bedding the Lamia.

Kwiatowski, Steph “Cake Between the Teeth,” Nightmare #105, June.

Laben, Carrie “The Van Etten House, The Dark #68, January.

Laidlaw, Marc “Paradise Retouched,” Nightmare #103, April.

Lanchester, John “Charity” Reality.

Lanchester, John “Cold Call” Reality.

Lanchester, John “Which of These Would You Like?” Reality.

Lang, Amanda Cecilia “The Clover Café,” Tales to Terrify episode 515, December 10 2021.

Langan, John “El,” The Bad Book.

Langan, John “Something Like Living Creatures,” When Things Get Dark.

Langan, John “Uncle Bart’s Map, Hymns of Abomination.                                     

Langan, John “Washed in the Blood of the Sun,” Uncertainties Volume V.

Langevin, Amy “Our Nightly Voyage,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII.

Lansdale, Joe R. “On the Muddy Banks of the Old Sabine,” Southwest Review, Autumn.

Lansdale, Joe R. “The Hungry Snow,” Chapbook.

Lansdale, Kasey “Resonator,” Collectibles.

LaRocca, Eric “All the Misery That Waits For Us at the End of the day,”What One Wouldn’t Do.

LaRocca, Eric “Please Leave or I’m Going to Hurt You,” The Strange Thing We Become.

LaRocca, Eric “The Trees Grew Because I Bled There,” Ibid.

LaRocca, Eric “Where Flames Burned Emerald as Glass,” Ibid.

LaRocca, Eric “You Follow Wherever They Go,” Ibid.

LaRocca, Eric “You’re Not Supposed To Be Here,” Ibid.

LaRocca, Eric Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.  Chapbook.

Larson, Rich “Complete Exhaustion of the Organism,” Lightspeed #131 April.

Lasser, Jon “You Should See My Scars,” Underland Arcana 3.

Lawrence, Ben “Shoulda Read the Fine Print, Blanche,” In Darkness Delight Volume Three.

Laws, Stephen “Shoot,” Shoot.

Laycock, Lily “The Eden Project,” Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #82.

Lee, Eileen Gunnell “When the Snowshoe Hare Turns White,” Nightmare #103, April.

Leeb, Giselle “Pain is a Liar,” Dreamland.

Leen, Gerri “The Cove,” (poem) Eye To the Telescope, issue 42.

Lehane, Dennis “A Bostonian (in Cambridge)” Collectibles.

Lester, Alexes “Shadows,” Chilling Crimes.

Liaguno, Vince A. “Visiting Hours,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII.

Likitalo, Leena “The Ghosts of the Great Northern Sea,” Songs of the Northern Seas.

Lindholm, Megan “Giving Up the Ghost,” Asimov’s Science Fiction July/August.

Link, Kelly “Skinder’s Veil,” When Things Get Dark.

Litt, Toby “The Dark Bit,” Beyond the Veil.

Littlewood, Alison “The Light You Can Hear,” Songs of the Northern Seas.

Littlewood, Alison “The Sisters of Epione,” Sisterhood: Secret Histories and Dark Tales.

Livingston, Trevor “Wendigo,” (poem) Eye To the Telescope, issue 41.

Lofgren, Patrick “In the Window,” The Deadlands 7, November.

Lopez, Lori R. “A Crow Is Calling,” (poem) Spectral Realms 15 summer.

Lopez, Lori R. “Biting Sarcasm” (poem) Spectral Realms 14 winter.

Lothian, Jack “Susan and the Most Popular Girl in School,” Weird Horror #3.

Luker, Catherine “Long Lankin,” Dread Imaginings, January.

Lyons, Matthew “Pisces,” Southwest Review, autumn.

 

Machado, Carmen Maria “A Hundred Miles and a Mile,” When Things Get Dark.

MacLeod, Bracken “Weightless Before She Falls,” Fright Train.

MacVaugh, Morgan “Creature,” The Fabulist Magazine, October.

Madrigano, Clara “Into the River,” Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology…

Madrigano, Clara “Little Doors,” The Dark #70, March.

Madrigano, Clara “There, in the Woods,” The Dark #68, January.

Major, Tim “The Cardboard Voice,” Nightscript VII.

Malerman, Josh “Door To Door,” Shadow Atlas.

Malerman, Josh “Special Meal” When Things Get Dark.

Malone, Avery Kit “The Solifuge’s Grin,” Dim Shores Presents Volume 2 spring.

Mamatas, Nick “Ba boo Dop doo Dop boo ree,” Voices in the Darkness.

Mandel, S. R. “A Martyrology for Museums,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 1 Spring.

Margariti, Avra “Lust in the Time of the Bubonic Plague,” (poem) Star*Line spring 44.2

Margariti, Avra “Sarcosoma,” (poem) Star*Line spring 44.2

Marshall, Helen “The Happy Medium,” There Is No Death, There Are No Dead.

Maruyama, Kate “Two Alices,” December Tales.

Marzioli, Samuel “She Who Would Rip the Sky Asunder,” Hollow Skulls.

Massie, Elizabeth “Baggie,” Voices in the Darkness.

Masterton, Graham “The Song of the Wandering Zombie,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase…

Masucci, Matt “Daughters of the Sun,” The Half That You See.

McAllister, Bruce “Last Angel,” (poem) Star*Line fall 44.4.

McAllister, Bruce “This Little Piggy,” Theme of Absence, April.

McCarthy, J.A.W. “Another Night on Earth,” Underland Arcana 3.

McCarthy, J.A.W. “Girls Tied To Trees,” Sometimes We’re Cruel.

McCarthy, J.A.W. “With Animals,” What One Wouldn’t Do.

McCarthy, J.A.W. “With You As My Anchor,” Sometimes We’re Cruel.

McCormick, Jason “In Silence,” F(riction) 18, spring.

McDonald, Ian “Bird. Spirit. Land.” The Black Dreams: Strange Stories From Northern Ireland.

McGoran, Jon “Dog Sitting,” Underland Arcana 2.

McGowan, Rowena “Prices,” Dark Waters.

McGuire, Seanan, “In the Deep Woods; The Light is Different There,” When Things Get Dark.

McHugh, Maura “Gravedirt Mouth,” The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror.

Meikle, William “Herders,” Terror Tales of The Scottish Lowlands.

Meloy, Paul “The Gearbox,” Prisms.

Miller, Sam J. “Darkness Metastatic,” Nightmare #100, January.

Miller, Sam J. “Tyrannosaurus Hex,” Uncanny 38.

Mills, Daniel “Dream Children,” Among the Lilies.

Miskowski, S.P. “I Could Tell You So Much,” Hymns of Abomination.

Moore, Marshall J. “Monsters” Chilling Crimes.

Moore, Ralph Robert “What the Snow Brings,” The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 3.

Moore, Tegan “The Tyger,” Tor.com, February 24.

Moreno, Gus “The Sixth Sun,” Southwest Review, Autumn.

Morgan, Christine “Stump-Water,” Hymns of Abomination.

Morton, Lisa “A Plague on the House,” December Tales.

Morton, Lisa “Hollywood Dirt,” Shoot.

Morton, Lisa “The Serpent’s Tale,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII.

Moss, Samuel M. “The Sculptor,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 1 Spring.

Muenzler, Michelle “ConsumingtheUnknown fruit”(poem)VastarienVol.4Issue1Spring 240.

Muller, C. “In the Dust,” Dim Shores Presents Volume 2 spring.

Munroe, Donna J.W. “It Rises From Between My Bones,” Pseudopod 752.

Muro, John “Aegean Pools,” (poem) Eye To the Telescope, issue 42.

Murray, Lee “At the Bar,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Murray, Lee “Cheongsam,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Murray, Lee “Exquisite,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Murray, Lee “Exquisite,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Murray, Lee “Permanent Damage,” Attack From the 80s.

Murray, Lee “The Bone Eater,” There Is No Death, There Are No Dead.

Murray, Lee “The Moon Goddess’s Granddaughter,” Giving the Devil His Due.

Murray, Lee “Weeping Waters,” Fright Train.

Murray, Lee “Willows,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Murray, Ronald J. “I Know Your Sickness Now, (poem) Lost Letters to a Lover’s Carcass.

Murray, Ronald J. “Listen, (poem) Ibid.

Murray, Ronald J. “Phantam Fingers, (poem) Ibid.

Murray, Ronald J. “Vulture Goddess, (poem) Ibid.

Napper, T.R. “A Vast Silence,” F&SF November/December.

Narr, B. “Cadaver Dogs,” Nightmare #107, August.

Nations, Victoria “Julia,” Blood and Bone.

Ness, Mari “Rockshell,” Dim Shores Presents Volume 2 spring.

Neugebauer, Annie “If Those Ragged Feet Won’t Run,” Apex 122.

Neugebauer, Annie “You Ought Not Smile As You Walk These Woods,” Shadow Atlas.

Ng, Lena “My Extra Eyes,” Dread Imaginings, April.

Nicholls, Mark “Settlement” Supernatural Tales 47.

Nogle, Christi “A Cold Grip,” Boneyard Soup, January.

Nogle, Christi “Laurel’s First Hunt,” Humans Are the Problem.

Nogle, Christi “She Ain’t Stopping,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 2 Fall.

Nogle, Christie “The Old Switcheroo,” What One Wouldn’t Do.

O’Brien, Brandon “…Of Our Garden and Beach,” (poem) Can You Sign My Tentacle?

O’Brien, Brandon “…Where There are No Dirges (poem) Can You Sign My Tentacle?

O’Brien, Brandon “Hunting Dog,” (poem) Can You Sign My Tentacle?

O’Brien, Brandon “The Repossession of Skin,” (poem) Can You Sign My Tentacle?

O’Brien, James Edward “A Meriwether Jacket,” On Spec #118.

O’Brien, Liam “Bagley’s Correction,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 1 Spring.

O’Driscoll, Mike “Pervert Blood,” Black Static #80/81.

O’Hanlon, Emer “Red Knots Tightening,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 2 Fall.

Oates, Joyce Carol “Miss Golden Dreams 1949” Collectibles.

Oates, Joyce Carol “Río Piedra,” Conjunctions 76.

Oates, Joyce Carol “Take Me, I Am Free,” When Things Get Dark.

Ochse, Weston “Blood Memories,” Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology….

Ochse, Weston “Top Guns of the Frontier,” Attack From the Eighties.

Oden, Steve “The Sisters Purifoy,” From the Yonder Volume II.

Ogamba, Frances “Water Child,” The Dark #72, May.

Ogden, Aimee “Hundreds of Little Absences,” The Dark #77, October.

Ogden, Aimee “One last Broken Thing,” The Dark #69, February.

Ògúnyẹmí, Ernest O. “Yahoo Plus,” The Dark #75 August.

Olausson, Elin “Chalk,” The Half That You See.

Olausson, Elin ”Roadkill,” Nightscript VII.

Oliver, Reggie “Drumglass Chapel,” Terror Tales of The Scottish Lowlands.

Oliver, Reggie “Grey Glass,” December Tales.

Oliver, Reggie “Via Mortis,” A Maze for the Minotaur.

Opperman, K. A. “Child of Ice,” (poem) The Laughter of Ghouls.

Opperman, K. A. “The Laughter of Ghouls,” (poem) The Laughter of Ghouls.

Opperman, K. A. “The Voice of the Waves,” (poem) The Laughter of Ghouls.

Oreto, Frank “The Perceptual Inconsistency of Enid Wozniak,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 1 Spring.

Osborne, Emma “Slaughterhouse Boys,” Hometown Haunts.

Padgett, Jon “Father Ezekiel Shineface Sermon,” Hymns of Abomination.

Padgett, Jon and Bartlett, Matthew M. “The Infinite Error,” Pseudopod 748 March.

Palumbo, Suzan “Laughter Among the Trees,” The Dark #69, February.

Panegyres, Anthony “Anthropophages Anonymous (AA),” Bourbon Penn 25.

Pang, Y.M. “Lace, Comb, Apple,” The Dark #75 August.

Parypinski, Joanna “It Accumulates,” Nightmare #102, March.

Paterson, W. T. “Whatever Lives in Them Mountains,” Underland Arcana 2.

Peek, Ben “At the Periphery,” Nightmare #106, July.

Penncavage, Michael “The Walker,” Chilling Crimes.

Percy, Benjamin “Hag,” When Things Get Dark.

Peréz, Lexi “Jamón Íberico,”  Underland Arcana 2.

Permenter, Justin “Hounds of the Lord” (poem) Spectral Realms 15 summer.

Petricone, E. A. “We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It,” Nightmare #101 February.

Phelps, Shawn “Quiet,” Penumbra No. 2.

Picano, Felice “Flawed,” Unburied: A Collection of Queer Dark Fiction.

Pichette, Marisca “The Wet Red,” Pseudopod 744 February.

Piper, Hailey “Among the Creatures of the Night,” Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy.

Piper, Hailey “Every Lady Echoes in the Mycorrhizal Hymn,” Boneyard Soup, January.

Piper, Hailey “Recitation of the First Feeding,” Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy.

Piper, Hailey “Wife-Beast of Eden,” The Bad Book.

Pueyo, H. “We’re Always the Ones Who Leave,” The Dark #78 November.

Pugh, Catherine “Across the Vale,” Railroad Tales.

Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. “…Less…Light,” Under Twin Suns.

Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean and Rachel “Oil,” Songs of the Northern Seas.

Quinn, Katy Michelle “The Queen of the Select,” Beautiful Grotesque.

Raab, Jonathan “A Pamphlet Found Among Broken Glass…” Underland Arcana 1.

Rainey, Stephen Mark “Country of the Snake,” Fright Train.

Rasmussen, Rhiannon “Twinning,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 1 Spring.

Ratner, Bill “Bogeyman,” (poem) Eye To the Telescope, issue 41.

Rawlik, Pete “Station Maintenance,” Hymns of Abomination.

Razvi, Saba Syed “On the Altar of a Beseeching…”(poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII.

Read, Sarah “Blood Bon Secours,” Violent Vixens.

Read, Sarah “Root Rot,” Humans Are the Problem.

Read, Sarah “Seeing Stones,” The Bad Book.

Read, Sarah “The Time That Is Left,” Shadow Atlas.

Reed, Tom “To See An Angel,” What One Wouldn’t Do.

Reese, Jenn “A Little Knife Music,” F&SF January/February.

Reiter, Geoffrey “A Green Shade,” Penumbra No. 2.

Rennie, S. A. “The Fourth Presence,” Terror Tales of The Scottish Lowlands.

Renwick, Zandra “On Wrath,” Black Static. #78/79.

Rex, Joshua “The Passing,” Nightscript VII.

Rickert, M. “Funeral Birds,” When Things Get Dark.

Rosenberg, Simon “The Rabbi’s Wife,” The Jewish Book of Horror.

Ross, Varian “It Won’t Be So Bad,” Blood and Bone.

Rosson, Keith “Diminishments,” Southwest Review, Autumn.

Rountree, Josh “A Red Promise in the Palm of Your Hand,” Weird Horror #3.

Rountree, Josh “Love Kills,” The Arcanist, November.

Rountree, Josh “The Beautiful People,” Underland Arcana 3.

Rowlan, Garrett “The Dentist,” Horrorzine October.

Rucker, Lynda E. “Der Geisterbahnhof,” Beyond the Veil.

Rucker, Lynda E. “Encore For An Empty Sky,” Prisms.

Ruppert, Erica “The Grave of Angels,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 1 Spring.

Rupsa, Dey “I was a girl once but I slipped” The Dark #73, June.

Russell, R. B. “The House on Windmill Lane,” Chapbook.

Ruvinsky, Rebecca “Vieux Carré,” Underland Arcana 1.

Ryan, Lindy “Buried,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII.

Sackett, Sydney “Paterfamilias,” (poem) Not One of Us #68.

Sager, Christian “Rescue and Alter,” Corridor 1.

Salomon,  Peter Adam “Fade Away,” (poem) Southwest Review, Autumn.

Samuels, Mark “The Interminable Abomination,” Penumbra No. 2.

Sandison, George” Anthems of Light and Leaving,” Hinterlands.

Sanford, Jason “As We Stand and Pray,” Giving the Devil His Due.

Santiago, Gabriela “The 21 Bus Line,” The Dark #73, June.

Satyamurthy, Jayaprakash “Murder Tongue,” Nightmare #110, November.

Scheiner, Kathleen “Wasp Honey, Under Twin Suns.

Schembri, David “Shadow and Fire,” (poem) Spectral Realms 14 winter.

Schow, David J. “Caving,” Weird Doom: A David J. Schow Sampler.

Schweitzer, Darrell “All Kings and Princes Bow Down Unto Me,” Penumbra No. 2.

Sharma, Priya “Mari Lwyd,” Dreamland.

Shaw, M. “Man vs Bomb,” Fantasy Magazine, Issue #67, May.

Shirley, John “The Camera on the Roller Coaster,” The Feverish Stars.

Simpson, Alf “All the Long Way Down,” Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3.

Sinclair, Colin “Hit Song,” Not One of Us #67.

Sloman, Phil “What It Takes,” In Darkness Delight Volume Three.

Smith, Angela Yuriko “Grandmother Shuffled,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Smith, Angela Yuriko “Inside Chibichiri Gama,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Smith, Angela Yuriko “Kijimuna,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Smith, Angela Yuriko “The Nukekubi,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Smith, Clint “Feast Your Eyes on the Yawning Monotony of Humdrum Rot,” Nightscript VII.

Smith, Clint “Pregnant Women and People WithHeartConditions,”Supernatural Tales47summer.

Smith, Farah Rose “Dead in September,” Hymns of Abomination.

Smith, John Claude “Everything Will Be Okay,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 2 Fall.

Smith, Michael Marshall “The Motel Business,” Prisms.

Sng, Christina “An Interlude With the Boarding House Owner,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Sng, Christina “Headhunters,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Sng, Christina “Heart of Darkness,” (poem) Star*Line fall 44.4.

Sng, Christina “La Ciguapa,”  (poem) Shadow Atlas.

Sng, Christina “Phoenix,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

Sng, Christina “Safe,” Spectral Realms 14 winter.

Sng, Christina “The Dream Fields of Hell,” (poem) Star*Line fall 44.4.

Sng, Christina “The Offering,” (poem) Tortured Willows.

St. George, Carlie “Forward, Victoria,” The Dark, Issue 71 April.

Starnes, T.M. “Prisoner,” The Half That You See.

Stokes, Ashley “Subtemple,” Black Static. #78/79.

Stokes, Ashley “The Validations,” Nightscript VII.

Stone, Hayley “A Record of Starvation At the Endof theVampyric Era,”(poem) Star*Line winter

Strand, Jeff “Twentieth Anniversary Screening” Slice & Dice.

Strantzas, Simon “That House,” Bourbon Penn 25.

Strantzas, Simon “Vertices,” Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 1 Spring.

Sullivan, Deirdre “Little Lives,” Uncertainties Volume V.

Surface, David “Little Gods To Live in Them,” Nightscript VII.

Sutton, Chelsea “The Belly and the Trees,” Bourbon Penn 24.

Sutton, David A. “St. Ambrews Well,” The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror.