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The Deadlands

Closed
Length
Up to 5,000 words
Pay
0.10 USD per word
Fee
Not stated
Simultaneous
Not allowed
Reprints
Reprints welcome

What they accept

The Deadlands publishes fiction set in the liminal spaces between life, death, and elsewhere, across horror, fantasy, science fiction, and literary styles. This call wants original stories up to 5,000 words about death and everything death may involve, and the magazine is currently on hiatus with fiction closed.

HorrorFantasyScience FictionSlipstreamLiterary
Languages
English
AI policy
The guidelines say the magazine is absolutely not interested in any kind of AI-generated fiction.

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