Horror Tree

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Paying speculative fiction #OpenCall s, #writing advice, #AuthorInterviews, #BookReview s, and more since 2011! By: @stuartconover.com‬
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@horrortree.com Oct 11, 2026, 1:01 PM

🩸 🩸Trembling With Fear🩸 🩸 In, “𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗲” by Noah Wood, our protagonist’s life crumbles. 💗 Nicolette Ward reminds us of the importance of tradition in ‘𝗛𝗼𝗹𝘆 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱’ 🪞 Stephen Tenerowicz reveals how home can be a trap in ‘𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁’ 🛌 Kamran Conn

@horrortree.com Oct 10, 2026, 3:01 PM

Three girls enter a theater. Only one leaves. 🎬

Our second review of @haileypiperfights.bsky.social's novel from @titanbooks.bsky.social explores survivor's guilt, old wounds & cinematic horror.

Reviewed by Jennifer Griffin.

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@horrortree.com Oct 9, 2026, 10:55 PM

They do have a good one! 😀

@horrortree.com Oct 9, 2026, 8:59 PM

🖤 Help keep @apexmag.bsky.social publishing in 2027!

Their Kickstarter seeks $21,000 to fund four issues of dark speculative fiction, paying writers $0.08/word.

⏳ Ends Oct. 30!

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@horrortree.com Oct 9, 2026, 7:30 PM

🖤 OPEN CALL: Ogerog Annual 2027-28

No theme. Literary horror, weird & uncanny fiction, and genre-bending horror wanted.

📅 Oct. 5–April 4
💰 $0.08/word + print copy
📖 3,000–4,500 words
🚫 No reprints or AI

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@horrortree.com Oct 9, 2026, 2:30 PM

We talk with horror legend Ramsey Campbell about his writing, his approach to horror, and his new novel, Ancestral.

Interview by @kyletheecuadorian.bsky.social

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@horrortree.com Oct 8, 2026, 7:30 PM

🩸 Secret Horror 2026 seeks terrifying short fiction, with international horror especially encouraged.

📅 Dec. 15
🏆 $1,313 prize
📖 2,800–4,200 words
🌎 Writers worldwide
💵 No submission fee
🤖 No AI

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@horrortree.com Oct 8, 2026, 3:30 PM

🚀 OPEN CALL: @wyldblood.bsky.social

Their November fiction window lasts ONE DAY.

📅 Nov. 1 only
💰 £0.01/word
📖 500–5,000 words
⚡ Flash welcome
🚀 SF & fantasy
📚 One submission
🚫 No poetry, reprints or AI

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@horrortree.com Oct 8, 2026, 2:30 PM

📚 What’s a legend, except a history told slantwise?

@alixeharrow.bsky.social collects tales of ghosts, witches, strange histories, love, sacrifice & second chances in The Slantwise Histories from @torbooks.bsky.social.

Our review:
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@horrortree.com Oct 7, 2026, 7:55 PM

🩸 🩸 Trembling With Fear🩸 🩸 Submissions are open for the Halloween special 👻 Send me your stories of costumes that possess the wearer, Haunted Houses that devour their patrons, Trick or Treating that's all tricks, no treats. 2500 words or less but please have Halloween central to the plot.

@horrortree.com Oct 7, 2026, 7:30 PM

🐴🚀 OPEN CALL: Screw Dem Space Horses

Space horses. Fantasy horses. Evil horses. Heroic horses. Horse-adjacent things.

📅 Dec. 1
💰 $5 + royalties
📖 2,000–6,000 preferred
📚 Reprints accepted
👻 SF, fantasy, horror & more

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@horrortree.com Oct 7, 2026, 3:30 PM

🌲 OPEN CALL: Flash Fiction from the Garden State

Speculative stories set in New Jersey.

📅 Oct. 1–Dec. 31
💰 $5/story
📖 700–1,000 words, strict
👻 Fantasy, horror, SF & more
🚫 No reprints or sim subs
🤖 No AI

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@horrortree.com Oct 7, 2026, 2:30 PM

Writing Prompt Wednesdays: Trick or Treat
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#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #HorrorTree #WritingPrompt

@horrortree.com Oct 6, 2026, 7:30 PM

🍸 OPEN CALL: Dirty Martini: A Feminist Horror Noir Anthology

📅 Oct. 1–Dec. 31
💰 $0.08/word + contributor copy
📖 1,000–5,000 words
🖤 Horror, noir & speculative fiction
🚫 No reprints or generative AI

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@horrortree.com Oct 6, 2026, 3:30 PM

🖤 OPEN CALL: Venom and Velvet

Seeking dark romantasy with obsession, devotion, desire, enemies-to-lovers & morally gray characters.

📅 Dec. 1
💰 $10 original | $5 reprint
📖 5,000–10,000 words
🔥 Explicit okay
📚 Reprints welcome

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@horrortree.com Oct 6, 2026, 2:30 PM

🏚️ What if the scariest thing about Britain's stately homes isn't the ghosts?

@tomhuddleston.bsky.social explores their darker histories and how they inspired his upcoming Gothic haunted-house novel The Cracks.

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@kevharrison.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 9:57 AMReposted by @horrortree.com

I was down south this weekend, but #MustRead horror never falters. This week: Tara Badstubner asks why ghosts are more present than ever today @lithub.com.web.brid.gy, @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social presents 10 perfect books to get you in the #Halloween mood @horrortree.com ...

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@horrortree.com Oct 5, 2026, 7:30 PM

🎄 Make Christmas weird.

@weirdxmas.bsky.social seeks strange, creepy & off-kilter winter holiday stories.

📅 Nov. 29
💰 $35/story
📝 350 words max
✒️ Narrative poetry welcome
👻 Horror, SF, fantasy, bizarro & more
🤖 No AI

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@horrortree.com Oct 5, 2026, 6:32 PM

🌳 New from Horror Tree!

Our Submission Kit helps writers track stories, markets, deadlines, responses, payments & reprints.

We also launched a Writer Resources Hub that we'll be expanding to share our favorite writing tools.

Available on Beehiiv, Patreon & Ko-fi.

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@horrortree.com Oct 5, 2026, 3:30 PM

🌲 OPEN CALL: Dark Ages: Folk Horror Stories

Rome has fallen. Old beliefs return. Forgotten things stir.

📅 Oct. 18 deadline
💰 $0.08/£0.06 per word
📖 2,000–4,000 words preferred
👻 Folk & historical horror
🚫 No reprints or AI

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