Art card featuring a green-tinted closeup of a woman's eye with hair draped near it. Text reads "Ten Words For A Wicked Woman by Susan Snyder"
Ten Words For A Wicked Woman by Wonderland Award winner Susan Snyder is out! This book is a clarion call against our march backward into patriarchy. It's a gander at hypocrisy and inner turmoil. It's Snyder at her most incisive! #Books #WritingCommunity a.co/d/cVw4LAH
🧠 Hellbound Books is taking submissions for a Psychological Horror anthology.
Deadline: July 31, 2026
💀 3k–6k words
💵 $5 (first rights)
Original, unpublished work only. No reprints.
Details:
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
🪰 OPEN CALL — Hatching Season
A charity horror anthology about INFESTATION.
Parasites. Swarms. Creatures breeding where they shouldn’t.
📝 2k–5k words
📅 Deadline: 28 June 2026
All profits donated to www.mind.org.uk/
Full details:
devilsrockbooks.com/submissions
🚨1428 Publishing is seeking contributors for Embracing the Abject: Exploring Abjection in Cinema, a new collection examining horror, the body, and social boundaries.
They’re especially encouraging submissions from marginalized writers.
Sub deadline: 29 May 2026 👻📽️
nighttidemag.com/2026/03/13/s...
One of my favourite illustrations I’ve created for @madnessheartpress.bsky.social 🖤
#illustration #darkartist #freelanceillustrator #indiepublishing #scifiart
Art card featuring a repeated smeared skull print on a blue-green background. Text reads "Charles Bernard's Black Sunrise on Piss Earth: Fascism, Nihilism, and the 21st Century Occult"
OUT NOW! Out imprint Gutter Mystic Press is pleased to present its debut book - Black Sunrise on Piss Earth: Nihilism, Fascism, and the 21st Century Occult by Charles R. Bernard. All proceeds donated to Food Not Bombs! #WritingCommunity #Books tinyurl.com/GMBSoPE
![When you get carried away pulling that little piece of skin on your finger
[A human model that looks like it came from Body Worlds: its skin has been removed, showing the bones and musculature, and it's been posed to be reclining, holding a beverage cup in its/their hand.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tcvpjkdcsdotgvcgdf6epyoe/bafkreihjqrwcujogzsjvycphss6s5vjnjocy2zklgk5pnskvpybum7nbze)
When you get carried away pulling that little piece of skin on your finger [A human model that looks like it came from Body Worlds: its skin has been removed, showing the bones and musculature, and it's been posed to be reclining, holding a beverage cup in its/their hand.]
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Happy Wednesday!
Art card featuring a bearded king staring at the stars. Text reads "The Book of Brilliance: Selections from the Sefr ha-Bahir translated, annotated, & interpreted by Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis"
PREORDER NOW! Aggadah Try It, our Jewish fiction, religion, and mysticism imprint, presents THE BOOK OF BRILLIANCE: Selections from the Sefer ha-Bahir, one of the earliest texts of #Jewish #mysticism interpreted by renowned scholar Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis. madnessheart.press/product/the-...
📂 Shallow Waters Flash Fiction Contest is OPEN
Theme: ARCHIVAL HORROR
Deadline: March 31, 2026
Max 1,500 words
Prizes:
🥇 $0.04/word + spotlight
🥈 $0.03/word
🥉 $0.02/word
Details:
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
From @crystallake.bsky.social
Art card featuring a psychedelic side-view of a pregnant person surrounded by a typewriter, goggles, a butterfly, a centipede, and a talon. Text reads "The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey"
WONDERLAND AWARD WINNER FOR BEST COLLECTION! The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey, a curiosity disguised as a maternity guide! Replete with footnotes, Guffey explores the absurdity of postmodern motherhood. #Books a.co/d/1WFOsAQ
It's #podcast time, y'all!
Awakenings, horror heroes, and pranks gone wrong, oh my! @reading1000lives.bsky.social + @dandantransient.bsky.social join forces to interview @sgj.bsky.social about Night of the Mannequins, writing and POV, and more!
Audio/Video: skiffyandfanty.com/p...
Art card featuring a dancer wound around a stripper's pole holding a severed leg. Text reads "PINS by Jessica McHugh" with the I in PINS represented by a stylized bowling pin.
Brand new: PINS by Jessica McHugh! With cash and weed dwindling Birdie does what any 21-year-old woman would: gets a job dancing at a strip club / bowling alley called PINS and, as murders occur, begins to question her sexuality. #Horror #WritingCommunity a.co/d/2b0zkgJ
Art card featuring a goblin looking worriedly at a smartphone while two other goblins wrestle a gigantic kitchen mixer in the background. Text reads "ODD GOBS"
Available now! ODD GOBS from @kaijupoet.bsky.social and @rollinkunz.itch.io is a standalone #TTRPG about anticapitalist goblins making ends meet in a #cyberpunk, dystopian metropolis! #TTRPGs #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #Geek tinyurl.com/MHGOddGobs
It's International Women's Day, so let's celebrate some feminine vampire TV and films:
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/v...
CARMILLA: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/v...
TWINS OF EVIL: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/v...
BLOOD RED SKY: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/v...
Art card in the style of a scuffed 1980s paperback: a priest wearing a cross and Roman collar extends hands filled with wriggling worms. Text reads "Squirming All The Way Up by Joey Powell"
Brand new: Squirming All The Way Up by Joey Powell! Two brothers reunite in rural Virginia to reconcile after their split years ago. For one, it's a chance to indoctrinate his brother into the Fellowship of the First Divine. #Horror #Books madnessheart.press/product/squi...
We are busy behind the scenes prepping for our next Queer Your eReader event, but in the meantime we're open to Pride in Horror submissions! Why not check out what we're looking for and see if you have something that fits?
divinationhollow.com/pride-in-hor...
TWB Press (Fiction; Fantasy, Horror, Romance, SF, Thriller; pays) opened to fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Art card featuring a twilit scene in which children with dead, glowing eyes stare from the shadows. Text reads "Everyone Dies Famous In A Small Town by Wrath James White"
Grab Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by #splatterpunk legend Wrath James White! Beset by hallucinations, reality and nightmares mix in Mika’s mind, intertwined with one another. Malign spirits can look like dead friends, and Mika has seen them. #Horror #Books tinyurl.com/WJWEveryone
Art card featuring a faceoff between two monstrous, fire-breathing kaiju, one winged and one more leech-like. A city crumbles into flames in the background. Text reads "Its Shadow Means Death: A BADASS roleplaying game of brutal kaiju battles and MASS DESTRUCTION"
The preview page for our next game, ITS SHADOW MEANS DEATH, is live on Kickstarter!
Become city-destroying #kaiju and duke it out! Level cities! Crush humans as they gaze up at you and realize: ITS SHADOW MEANS DEATH! #ttrpg #indiegames #Godzilla #Gamera www.kickstarter.com/projects/ran...
Art card featuring the silhouette of a human figure facing a gigantic, colorful rat. Text reads “Curse of the Ratman by Jay Wilburn”
Available now! "Curse of the Ratman" is a tale of revenge, broken promises, and giant monsters by #horror master Jay Wilburn! Something terrible feeds in the Carolina woods. The Render family is going to pay for not keeping their promises to it. #Books getbook.at/ratman
Killer Shorts Horror Short Story Competition @killershorts.bsky.social (Fiction; Horror; non-paying) opened to fee-based fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
📚💙 😀 Hurray! Pre-order Strange Vibes Anthology Vol 1 today. Tales of the bizarre, macabre, absurd & darkly comedic 👀 TBR Mar 31. Amazon & Print coming soon 💀🩸📚
✨PRE-ORDER HERE
books2read.com/u/3kMVNg
#readingcommunity #readsky #weirdfiction #anthologies #horror #eldritch #darkhumor #strangefiction
Art card: a leash and chain lie atop an unmade, blood-dappled bed with white sheets. Text reads "KENNEL by Garrett Cook"
WONDERLAND AWARD NOMINEE! Kennel by Garrett Cook: the kink world whispers of a man known as Daddy. Pup is a homeless femboy with only dreams to comfort them. When they meet, Pup is led into a strange world of drugs, eroticism, and degradation. #Books tinyurl.com/gckennel
Art card featuring an annoyed-looking TTRPG player watching as their mother breaks through the game table in the form of a horned, scaled serpent. Text reads "YOUR MOM by John Baltisberger and Garrett Cook"
Fantasy #TTRPGs allow us to embody mighty barbarians and wizards who get laid all the time - but with this supplement from Garrett Cook and John Baltisberger, fantasy TTRPGs can also be about making fun of your friend's (or enemy's!) mom! Have fun with it! madnessheart.press/product/your...
Art card featuring four armored figures traversing a strange, concave environment with reaching tendrils. Text reads "A Psalm Sung in Spores: Citadel by John Baltisberger"
Available now! A new science fiction epic from John Baltisberger, A Psalm Sung in Spores: Citadel "combines thrilling action with profound intellectual musings" (Daniel Fox) A galaxy-spanning crusade against the gods begins. #Books tinyurl.com/MHPSSIS
Event graphic with white and lavender text on starry purple background with author photos. Text reads: Strong Women Strange Worlds presents First Friday QuickReads of Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror by Rachel Rodman, Kristina Ten, Mina Ikemoto Ghosh, Jane Mondrup, Mercedes M. Yardley. March 6, 12 noon EST. Free on Zoom. Preregister now at StrongWomenStrangeWorlds.Weebly.Com.
Updated lineup for the Strong Women, Strange Worlds event March 6! Readings, giveaways & good times on a Friday. Wherever you are in the world, you can swing through 🖤
W/ @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social, @janemondrup.bsky.social, Rachel Rodman, Mina Ikemoto Ghosh, me! #swswqr @swsworlds.bsky.social
Art card featuring a black-eyed, green-skinned pregnant humanoid caressed by shadowy tentacles. Text reads "The Wet Dreams of Old Gods by Edward Lee: Dunwish Romance * Innswich Horror * Trolley 1852"
Available now! THE WET DREAMS OF DEAD GODS is the quintessential collection of #splatterpunk legend Edward Lee’s erotic and disturbing Lovecraftian #horror novels! #Books #WritingCommunity #Erotica madnessheart.press/product/the-...
Art card featuring a faceoff between two monstrous, fire-breathing kaiju, one winged and one more leech-like. A city crumbles into flames in the background. Text reads "Its Shadow Means Death: A BADASS roleplaying game of brutal kaiju battles and MASS DESTRUCTION"
The preview page for our next game, ITS SHADOW MEANS DEATH, is live on Kickstarter!
Become city-destroying #kaiju and duke it out! Level cities! Crush humans as they gaze up at you and realize: ITS SHADOW MEANS DEATH! #ttrpg #indiegames #Godzilla #Gamera www.kickstarter.com/projects/ran...
Art card featuring a bearded king staring at the stars. Text reads "The Book of Brilliance: Selections from the Sefr ha-Bahir translated, annotated, & interpreted by Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis"
PREORDER NOW! Aggadah Try It, our Jewish fiction, religion, and mysticism imprint, presents THE BOOK OF BRILLIANCE: Selections from the Sefer ha-Bahir, one of the earliest texts of #Jewish #mysticism interpreted by renowned scholar Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis. madnessheart.press/product/the-...
3 years of Dark Holme. 🖤
A proper home for indie horror. We’ve got magazines, writing comps, workshops, and our own social hub, Shadowsphere (join or start your own groups!). 🏚️
Whether you're a reader or a writer, you’ve finally found your people.
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