Fiction
The Horror Zine
Closed
- Length
- 1,900 to 4,000 words
- Pay
- Unpaid
- Fee
- Not stated
- Simultaneous
- Not stated
- Reprints
- Original only
What they accept
The Horror Zine is an unpaid, exposure-only ezine and print magazine seeking original horror, mystery, suspense, science fiction, and speculative stories of 1,900 to 4,000 words with strong character development and twist endings. It is currently closed to fiction, poetry, and art, with no reopening dates stated on its guidelines page. It does not accept splatterpunk or gore for gore's sake.
HorrorMystery & CrimeScience FictionOther / not listed
- Anonymous reading
- Not required
- AI policy
- The Horror Zine does not accept any submissions created with the use of, or any assistance from, Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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