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Haunted feminist horror call

Last Girls Club Winter Spring 2026
Theme Haunted, creeping dread and strange spaces

Short stories to 2,500 words
Flash to 1,000 words
Poems under 200 words

Window Jan 1 to 15 2026

Details:
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#OpenSubmissions #Horror #FeministHorror #Wome
December 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Horror writers

New anthology: NEED Horror Stories You Cant Live Without

💀Addiction, hunger, obsession, tech dependence and other all consuming needs

✍️ Up to 2,000 words, 20 dollars pay 💰
⏰Deadline Feb 28 2026

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#OpenSubmissions #Horror #WritingCommunity
December 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New at Horror Tree ✨

PHANTOM CONSTELLATIONS by Daniel Braum is quiet, uncanny horror about haunted people, liminal places, and strange tales poised between real and unreal.

Review:
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#HorrorBooks #WeirdFiction
December 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Stone’s Throw wants your sweatiest bad decisions 🔥
From @rhppress.bsky.social
Februarys prompt: TAKE MY SHIRT OFF AND CHECK ME FOR A WIRE
🗓 Sub window: Jan 1 to 3, 2026
✍️ 1,000 to 2,000 words
💰 $25 to the selected story

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#Horror #CrimeFiction #Noir
December 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Open call: WAXEN Spring 2026

Occult, weird, surreal horror
Short fiction and poetry up to 5,000 words, plus black and white friendly illustrations

50 dollar flat fee per accepted piece
Deadline March 15 2026

Guidelines:
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#OpenSubmissions #Horror #WeirdFiction #Occul
December 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
PNW writers and weird fiction fans

Sley House Publishing wants tales from the Pacific Northwest

Horror, sci fi, fantasy rooted in the region
Pay 35 dollars per piece
Sub window Jan 1 to 3 2026

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#OpenSubmissions #AmWriting #PNW #SpecFic
December 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New review up at Horror Tree 🩸

THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT AND OTHER LOST MEDIA by Rhiannon Rasmussen is a vivid mix of weird horror, dark SF, body horror and eerie lost media vibes.

Read the full review:
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#HorrorBooks #BookReview #WeirdFiction
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎄🖤 One last Trembling With Fear for 2025 (😱) is here!
A Statue of Scars by Christina Nordlander + 3 drabbles:
🍦 Frozen in Terror by Kat Craig
🌕 Blood Moon by Paul Lonardo
🔁 Intersection by @ryanwbenson.bsky.social
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#AmReading
December 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Can we trust what Bedo says? Find out in Chapter Six of our Serial Saturday, Hide Behind by Molly May Jones:

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#Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors
December 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A quiet, haunting vampire novella that trades jump scares for memory and melancholy 🧛‍♀️🤖

@melodyemcintyre.bsky.social reviews For Ever and a Day by Dario Fero.

Immortality, AI, and love at the edge of time.

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#BookReview #Horror #VampireFiction
December 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Richmond writers and RVA lovers
Richmond Fantastic wants your stories 🏙️✨

Speculative fiction where the city is a character, 2k to 5k words, 1 cent per word, original only.
Deadline March 31 2026

Full guidelines: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#amwriting #WritingCommunity #specfic
December 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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December 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Reposted by Horror Tree
Check out the amazing stories in the @horrortree.com Christmas issue, including my own - The Longest Night.

#amwriting
#horror
#winter
#Christmas
🎄Trembling With Fear: Christmas 2025 is live!
5 holiday treats:
🎅Hail Santa (Kim Joyce)
✨The Christmas Miracle (Benjamin Logan Miller)
🌙The Longest Night (Nicolette M. Ward)
🎁An Early Christmas Gift (Andreas Flögel)
🧝The Elf (Richard M. Sanders)
Read if you dare. 😈📚
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December 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Leviathans in Jupiter’s skies, a sapphic captain chasing the Möbius Beast, and a narrator called I trying to survive it all. Dive into our review of Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall from Tor Books: horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...
#BookReview #SciFiHorror #CosmicHorror
December 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎄Trembling With Fear: Christmas 2025 is live!
5 holiday treats:
🎅Hail Santa (Kim Joyce)
✨The Christmas Miracle (Benjamin Logan Miller)
🌙The Longest Night (Nicolette M. Ward)
🎁An Early Christmas Gift (Andreas Flögel)
🧝The Elf (Richard M. Sanders)
Read if you dare. 😈📚
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December 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
✏️ Short story writers

Newsela is paying 1,500 dollars for original fiction for grades 3 - 12
1,500 - 5,000 words
All genres, classroom friendly

Deadline March 15, 2026

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#WritingCommunity #KidLit #ShortStory #AmWriting
December 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Black horror writers 🖤

Black Horror, Then & Next is open for submissions.

Theme: stories that honor the legacy of Black horror and imagine what comes next.
Pay: 8c per word
Deadline: Jan 14 2026

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#BlackHorror #amwriting #WritingCommunity #HorrorCommunity
December 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Taking submissions: Obsidian: The Dark Space Novelette Anthology 🌌
Dark SF & horror about isolation, exploration, & the brutal void of space.

9k to 25k words
1p per word up to £100
Deadline Feb 15 2026

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#WritingCommunity
December 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Call for subs: Verify You’re Not Human 🐺

@tfpublishing.bsky.social is seeking stories about therian identity
MC must be therian or otherkin
2k-10k words, any genre or rating
Pay: AU 1c per word + contributor copy
Deadline: March 1 2026

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December 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Call for submissions: Who Am I? A Sapphic Spec Fic Anthology of Identity and Purpose is open from Dec 1 2025 to Feb 28 2026.
Looking for 2k to 5k word speculative stories centered on sapphic characters and identity or purpose.
Full guidelines: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#WritingCommunity
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Taking submissions: Sci-Fi Ireland Winter 2025 🚀

SF that only works because of the science or tech at its core. 🌌

Pays £75 · 2k-6k words 👾
Born in or living on the island of Ireland 👽
Deadline Jan 31 2026 🛰️

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#SciFi #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reposted by Horror Tree
... @nighttidemag.bsky.social hear the tolling bells of Christmas Carols and note how well they fit the horror genre, The Lineup select 10 bitesize horror reads for bingeing in the holidays, and @horrortree.com sit down for an author interview with @danielbraum.bsky.social.

Happy reading, friends!👻
December 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New review at Horror Tree 🩸

Something’s Wrong With Maddie by Taylor Z. Adams ( @tayloradamsbooks.bsky.social ) is a sapphic zombie love story about grief, obsession, and how far you will go to keep the dead you love.

Read more: horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...

#BookReview #Horror
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New #TremblingWithFear is live 🧟‍⬛

Cat in a Box by Miranda Lewis brings zombie cats and grief.

Drabbles:
Yuletide Reclaimed by @shadowsbetween.bsky.social
Lorcan the Legend by @ctomahony.bsky.social
In Their Image by RJ Meldrum

Read: horrortree.com/trembling-wi...
December 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM