Do you write Scary,
Horrific, Gruesome, Macabre, Bloody, Shocking, Gory, Gut-Wrenching,
Thrilling and Chilling Tales? We're ready...
Short Story Submissions
(1500-4000 words)
Dark Moon Digest
Is looking for quality short stories for future issues of the
quarterly horror publication. Any genre
will be accepted as long as it is a horror story.
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Flash Fiction
Story Submissions
(500 words max)
Dark Moon Digest
Is looking for quality short stories for future issues of the
quarterly horror publication. Any genre
will be accepted as long as it is a horror story.
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A Writing Guide
For Your Dark Side
Two redhead
educators and a horror publisher walk into a bar . . . during a
zombie apocalypse. Armed with only their wits and a
fully-charged-laptop battery, they hammered out the world's
darkest writing manual amidst the flurry and chaos of gnashing
teeth and rotting cadavers. Each chapter of the handbook is
devoted to a different genre of writing--everything from
academic writing (complete with MLA and APA sample essays),
business writing, and even poetry and fiction--all of it with a
dark and undead twist.
"Imagine if
George Romero and Hammer Films decided to rewrite Strunk and
White's beloved guide The Elements of Style. Well, I think Write
of the Living Dead is pretty close to what they would come up
with. This book is not only good fun for the horror set, but a
great resource for any writer, no matter he or she is writing.
This book deserves a place on any writer's desk."
Joe McKinney
(Bram Stoker
Award-winning author of Flesh Eaters & Dead City)
Apocalyptic Short Story Horror
Contest(CONTEST CLOSED)
Scheduled for our 2012 World Horror Convention
and Bram Stoker Awards' issue, this one should be grand. Yep. The
end is here. Are there zombies? Disfigured humanoids? Underground
dwellers? Raiding parties of cannibals? The four horseman of the
apocalypse? The ideas are endless and more than a little scary. But
remember. These are not just futuristic sci-fi stories, they are
horror stories!
Horror Flash Fiction Contest (ONGOING
CONTEST)
Think you're a
good writer? Try this one on for size!
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Paranormal Horror Short Story Contest (CONTEST DEADLINE HAS
PASSED)
Get inside your
reader's mind with this contest! Great prizes and awards to everyone
who enters.
Vampires! Short Story Horror Contest(CONTEST DEADLINE HAS
PASSED)
If you like the
vampire genre and you like to write, then get out your ink pens or
limber up those fingers, because here’s your chance.
Dark Moon
Presents: Vampires! will be
available this fall. Visit
Dark Moon Books for more info.
Ghosts! Short Story Horror
Contest(CONTEST DEADLINE HAS
PASSED)
In October of 2011, the Halloween issue of Dark Moon Digest will contain nothing but ghost stories. Great
prizes and awards to everyone who enters.
Dark Moon
Presents: Ghosts! will be available
this fall. Visit
Dark Moon Books for more info.
Zombies! Short Story Horror Contest (CONTEST DEADLINE HAS
PASSED)
Yep. It's all
about the undead.
Dark Moon
Presents: Zombies! will be
available this fall. Visit
Dark Moon Books for more info.
Horror Anthologies
Frightmares! Flash Fiction
Anthology (Volume One)
Think you can
scare someone in 500 words or less? Well, that's the mission of the
first annual flash fiction anthology from Dark Moon Books.
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Frightmares:
A Collection of Frightful Flash Fiction
will be available this fall.
Mini-Contests
Horror Video Contests, 3-Sentence
Writing Contests, Photograph Contests
Dark Moon
Digest's blog
is sponsoring several on-going contests for writers, artists and
photographers. Visit our
Last Writes blog today
for more information.
Additional Contests
These and other contests can be found at the Dark Moon
Digest website. Currently several contests for writers, artists
and photographers. Visit the
website today
for more information.
For those authors who entered
either our Zombies!, Monsters! or horror poetry contests, please be
reminded that your stories and poems are still under consideration for
possible publication in a future issue of Dark Moon Digest as well
as our annual anthologies. If you would like to check on the
status of your story, please send an e-mail to Stan Swanson at
HorrorQuarterly@gmail.com.
