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biannual Canadian #litmag, dark fiction and quiet horror stories. #quiethorror #darkfiction
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Frost Zone Stories @frostzonestories.bsky.social · Sep 8
Now available, Frost Zone Stories, book 2.
Happy publication day to the authors of these eleven frosty tales. 🖤🥶
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Cover of Frost Zone Stories, book 2: Background is an abstract design of purple and green maple leaves with a portal-like section in the middle being black and white, beneath is a path. A skeletal figure with long purple and black hair, wearing a raggedy black dress, points a bony finger toward the path. Title is in banner at the top: Frost Zone Stories, small type above this: Book 2 on the left and Autumn, 2025 on the right.
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Submissions are now closed for Frost Zone Stories books 3&4.
Thank you to all who've sent in a story! We'll have a response for you as soon as possible. 🖤🥶
Image is a pale blue rectangle with the words: FROST ZONE - in white letters, below this: STORIES inside a pale green oval, and below: SUBMISSIONS CLOSED.
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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So much for an extra hour of sleep...
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November 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN from the Frost Zone! 🎃

Some tricky sweets & lovely treats have been landing in the inbox, but there's still time to get your story in for consideration, too.
Frost Zone Stories Books 3 & 4 subs open until Nov01 (that's tomorrow!)
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Vintage Halloween postcard: a skeleton holding a Jack-O'Lantern in one hand, a walking stick in the other, walks alonside a graveyard filled with slanting grave stones. A church with glowing clock, a bright yellow moon, and a few bare trees loom in the background. The word Halloween is at the top, centre-right of the postcard.
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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1816 Canada 🥶❄ was a SNOW zone.
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My Substack Today: Canada's Year Without A Summer!
A volcano eruption created a very cold year for Canada.

Subscribe and receive these Canadian history stories in your e-mail three times a week (one for paid subscribers, two for free subscribers) 👇
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Canada's Year Without A Summer
A volcano half a world away stole our summer in 1816
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October 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Ghost to Ghost to Ghost
an anthology of Haunting Tales form Canada
available in eBook and Paperback.
Nineteen short stories and flash fiction by a wonderful gathering of Canadian authors.

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paperback book, Ghost to Ghost to Ghost: cover has title in large type (red and white) then smaller, an anthology of Haunting Tales from Canada, a tiny blue-hued translucent maple leaf, then edited by M.M. MacLeod. Behind wording is a dark-toned translucent maple leaf behind which is a winter scene of ice-covered trees. Surrounding the book are small maple and other leaves, and a few small river stones.
October 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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❄️ Now Taking Submissions!
Frost Zone Stories Books 3 & 4 seek Dark Literary Fiction, Quiet Horror, and Literary Horror.

💰 $15 CAD + copies
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 1, 2025
Send your subtle, chilling, and strange tales.
👉 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-frost-zone-stories-book-3-and-4/
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Frost Zone Stories is open to submissions of short horror stories; quiet horror, dark fiction - tales of the unexpected, the chilling, the dreadful, and the strange. Token $ plus print copy, or 2 print copies. OPEN until Nov01.
For books 3&4 which will be published in spring & autumn 2026
October 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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It is Ghost to Ghost to Ghost's 2nd day alive (or dead?)
Thanks so much to everyone who gave a boo-out 👻 for its release yesterday - picking up a copy, liking, sharing 🖤
This is a fantastic group of authors, telling short, haunting stories.

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October 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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It's October 21... HAPPY RELEASE DAY!
Ghost to Ghost to Ghost - an anthology of 19 Haunting Tales from Canada.
Happy publication day to the authors of these wonderful short stories and flash fiction.
The paperback has been available for a while and today the eBook is here.

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paperback book, Ghost to Ghost to Ghost: cover has title in large type (red and white) then smaller, an anthology of Haunting Tales from Canada, a tiny blue-hued translucent maple leaf, then edited by M.M. MacLeod. Behind wording is a dark-toned translucent maple leaf behind which is a winter scene of ice-covered trees. Surrounding the book are small maple and other leaves, and a few small river stones.
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Submissions are now open!

Details here: www.frostzonestories.com/p/submission...
Submissions
Submission Guidelines GENERAL SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN  October 18-November 01 for FROST ZONE STORIES Books 3 & 4   FROST ZONE STORIES   Canadi...
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October 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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The Smart Search List of the Day is: Mainstream Horror Fiction feat. @interzone.press @scifansat.bsky.social @frostzonestories.bsky.social @veloxbooks.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
Smart Search List of the Day
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Mainstream Horror Fiction feat. @interzone.press @scifansat.bsky.social @frostzonestories.bsky.social @veloxbooks.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/mainstream-horror-fiction-yO1lLx3o
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October 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Thank you Duotrope for selecting Frost Zone Stories as the listing of the day!

We are OPEN for submissions until November 01.
October 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Frost Zone Stories @frostzonestories.bsky.social (Fiction; General, Horror; pays sometimes) opened to fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Re-opening: Frost Zone Stories
Frost Zone Stories @frostzonestories.bsky.social (Fiction; General, Horror; pays sometimes) opened to fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com/magazine/frost-zone-stories-37944 #amwriting
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October 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Now open for submissions
October 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Submissions are now open!

Details here: www.frostzonestories.com/p/submission...
Submissions
Submission Guidelines GENERAL SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN  October 18-November 01 for FROST ZONE STORIES Books 3 & 4   FROST ZONE STORIES   Canadi...
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October 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Next stop is Vancouver in "Unseen Fairytale" by Landon K. Mar. One rainy night, Hilary is waiting for the bus when a mysterious woman appears...

Ghost to Ghost to Ghost
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Ghost to Ghost to Ghost cover on left, Right: Landon K. Mar "Unseen Fairytale" She starred out into the empty darkness of the night, the rain splattering across the grey sidewalk and asphalt in discordant staccatos... in that moment of calm, Hilary heard footsteps approach... Ghost to Ghost to Ghost an anthology of haunting tales from Canada Release date: Oct 21, 2025
October 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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This anthology features such a wonderful group of writers. The final story:
"Haunted House on the Prairie" by EC Dorgan is an atmospheric, haunting tale that truly captures the spirit of the prairie setting - and the theme of this anthology.

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Red border on white with faint image of bare trees background. Left side: Ghost to Ghost to Ghost cover, title on top of a translucent dark-toned maple leaf, behind which are ice-covered winter trees. On the right: EC Dorgan "Haunted House on the Prairie" We navigate by thickening dragonflies and the hum of crickets. Sometimes a prairie dog runs in front of us, sometimes a coyote. The gravel thins. And the trees... Well, the trees are everything. We stay in dirty motels with bedbugs and broken furniture. Sometimes we're woken by mice... Ghost to Ghost to Ghost an anthology of haunting tales from Canada Release date: Oct 21, 2025
October 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Four more days...submissions open this Saturday 👀
frostzonestories.bsky.social Frost Zone Stories @frostzonestories.bsky.social · Oct 5
Submissions open soon! Oct18-Nov01. Stories 1200-4k, read anonymously so please remove identifying info from story and file name. See details in the submission guidelines on website.

#litmag #shortstories #quiethorror #darkfiction
image: top FROST ZONE in white, below this S T O R I E S in an oval shape with light green background, below that - Submissions open October 18 - November 01 for 2026 books 3&4. Bottom: four book covers displayed left to right: Frost Zone Stories Book 1, next black cover with words BOOK 3 spring 2026, then Black cover with BOOK 4 autumn 2026, last Frost Zone Stories Book 2.
October 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Spooky season is upon us, what better time to read a new anthology of ghost stories? Ghost to Ghost to Ghost features flash fiction and short stories by Canadian authors.
eBook is on pre-order, and paperback is available now on Amz - with more options to follow

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paperback book, Ghost to Ghost to Ghost: cover has title in large type (red and white) then smaller, an anthology of Haunting Tales from Canada,a tiny blue-hued translucent maple leaf, then edited by M.M. MacLeod. Behind wording is a dark-toned translucent maple leaf behind which is a winter scene of ice-covered trees. Surrounding the book are small maple and other leaves, and a few small river stones.
October 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Happy long weekend to Canadians!
The paperback of this anthology of Canadian ghost stories is available at a special price of $9.99 until October19. (only on Amz dot ca currently)
And the eBook is also up for pre-order on Kobo, Amz, & more to come.
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We've spotlighted many from the lovely gathering of Canadian authors - more to come!
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This long-weekend & until Oct19 the PAPERBACK of Ghost to Ghost to Ghost is a special price of $9.99 on Amz . ca. while we wait for it to be avail. elsewhere.
Officially releases Oct21
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Red border, white background. Cover of Ghost to Ghost to Ghost anthology (Large type of title over a translucent dark-toned maple leaf, atop a scene of ice-covered bare winter trees). Above cover: Ghost to Ghost to GHost, an anthology of haunting tales from Canada. To the right of cover image: available in eBook (pre-order) and paperback. Beneath cover: link to order, same as in the post.
October 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Submissions open soon! Oct18-Nov01. Stories 1200-4k, read anonymously so please remove identifying info from story and file name. See details in the submission guidelines on website.

#litmag #shortstories #quiethorror #darkfiction
image: top FROST ZONE in white, below this S T O R I E S in an oval shape with light green background, below that - Submissions open October 18 - November 01 for 2026 books 3&4. Bottom: four book covers displayed left to right: Frost Zone Stories Book 1, next black cover with words BOOK 3 spring 2026, then Black cover with BOOK 4 autumn 2026, last Frost Zone Stories Book 2.
October 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Quiet and filled with creeping dread sounds wonderful...
a new anthology of quiet horror stories from Ghost Willow Press.
matgost.bsky.social MatGost @matgost.bsky.social · Oct 6
Silent Screams is out now.
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
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#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity
The cover wrap for Silent Screams, An Anthology of Quiet Horrors - featuring a striking, surreal illustration by Eric Brenner, depicting a screaming face with far too many eyes. The book blurb states: The most terrifying horror stories don't churn your stomach. They creep like shadows, chilling with a touch. They build dread through atmosphere and emotion, rather than splatter and gore. Welcome to Silent Screams, an anthology of quiet horror stories. Within these pages, you will face strange and twisted scenes, dark and demonic characters, nightmares great and small, written by a host of talented authors from around the world. These are shattering tales of grief and loss, visitations from strange folk, troubled dreams, and cursed artefacts. These are whispers to make your skin crawl and your toes curl. Words to catch your breath and smother screams.
October 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Submissions open soon! Oct18-Nov01. Stories 1200-4k, read anonymously so please remove identifying info from story and file name. See details in the submission guidelines on website.

#litmag #shortstories #quiethorror #darkfiction
image: top FROST ZONE in white, below this S T O R I E S in an oval shape with light green background, below that - Submissions open October 18 - November 01 for 2026 books 3&4. Bottom: four book covers displayed left to right: Frost Zone Stories Book 1, next black cover with words BOOK 3 spring 2026, then Black cover with BOOK 4 autumn 2026, last Frost Zone Stories Book 2.
October 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Ghost to Ghost to Ghost will be here Oct 21 🍁
This anthology features 19 stories by authors who live in Canada.
Pre-order link for eBook (more retailers will be added)
Paperback to be available close to the same date.
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#Canlit #anthology #ghoststories #shortstories
The cover of Ghost to Ghost to Ghost is centred on a Canadian Flag Red banner. The cover has a translucent maple leaf in dark tones over a grey toned background of ice-coated winter trees. Large title text: Top GHOST (in same red), middle: To Ghost To (in white), below that is GHOST in red. Smaller type: an anthology of Haunting Tales from Canada followed by a small maple leaf in icy white and blue tones. Below in smaller type: Edited by M.M. MacLeod. To the left a small logo FZ.
October 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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September 30th is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, as well as Orange Shirt Day. Today we honour the survivors of residential schools and remember those who did not survive. Always we listen to the truth from indigenous peoples: First Nations, Métis, Inuit.
white background with orange at bottom, design in orange and white is a circle with a winding path, a narwhal, eagle, and flower representing First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people. Line drawing symbols on lower right: three circles and inside an eagle head, narwhal, and flower.
September 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM