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October 2016. Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award winning editor Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints: “The Sound That Grief Makes” by Kristi DeMeester. “My Boy Builds Coffins” by Gary McMahon (reprint)
by James Bennett. Vivisepulture (noun): the practice of burying someone alive. The ghosts are loud tonight. Eric hears them howling around the house in the wind, but mostly inside his own head. If you asked him, Eric would say he doesn’t believe in ghosts. Like a million other folks, he’s far from special in that.
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Nov 12, 2021 · The Bloody Joy of Horror Literary Magazines. Lyndsie Manusos Nov 12, 2021. Nightfire. Launched in 2019, Nightfire, the new horror imprint from Tor, encompasses the breadth of horror, from short story collections to novellas and novels, from standalone works to series, from dark fantasy to the supernatural, from originals to reprints of lost ...
Dance, Macabre. by Phoenix Alexander. Here it is, your father says as he pulls up to the club, the car headlights making bright meat of the young people queuing outside. The eater of my youth, he says, so many good nights here, proper good, lad, you have no idea. He licks his lips and says a name that could be ‘Elysian’ or ‘Elysium’ but ...
Aug 6, 2013 · Submissions should be emailed to thedarkmagazine@gmail.com Please attach all submissions in .doc or rtf format—we will not accept submissions embedded in the body of email. Include your bio in your cover letter. Guidelines for Fiction. The Dark is an online magazine published monthly. We are seeking fiction 2,000 – 6,000 words.
Horror & Dark Fantasy. I think the short story is the most effective form of horror. This is not to say a horror novel can’t be scary or great—there are many great horror novels—but the brevity of the short story serves to heighten the fear because, like a knife in the dark, it’s fast, it’s sudden, it’s unexpected, and you don’t have time to recover once it appears.
