Fantastic Horror - Submission guide

Submission guide

We have special ways of doing things here at Fantastic Horror.
This page is designed to help you take advantage of the system.

Hands-on process

This is the recommended choice. As a contributor of prospective content, you are eligible to participate in the Contributors’ Workshop with our community of novices, veterans and everything between. Even if your attention is limited to the work you submit, it will be time well spent!

Read and agree to the criteria below.
a. Register a forum membership.
b. Request Workshop access.
Reap the benefits of peer review.

Hands-off process

Maybe all you want is a yes or no, like you’d expect from most editors. You might have no interest in monkeying around with message boards. That’s fine with us—if it means we get to showcase some finely crafted work, we’re glad to handle it in your absence.

Read and agree to the criteria below.
Send to submissions@fantastichorror.com.
Receive confirmation, invitation to register.
Wait to be notified of acceptance or rejection.

C O N T E N T

In keeping with the site’s title, we prefer dark or dreamlike fantasy, horror and science fiction, with a sense of atmosphere and attention to detail.

S K I L L A N D S T Y L E

The realistic and idealistic, the concrete and the abstract, the formal and the colloquial, and any mere opposite may be legitimate when skillfully used. As a consequence, we will judge style not by the supposed validity of its principal leanings but by the calibration and unity of its execution. We hope this point will be faithfully underscored by the work presently on display.

F O R M A N D L E N G T H

We accept prose or verse, fiction or nonfiction (to 10,000 words; work of greater length may be serialized), illustration, audio or video, as long as the work is reflective of our preferred content.

C O P Y R I G H T S

For one year, Fantastic Horror should be the only place online where your piece of work can be found.* On the anniversary of the release date of the issue in which your work appears, this obligation expires and you are free to republish your work elsewhere. We ask this courtesy for the sake of our own relevance; but you always retain executive control of your intellectual property.

* Excepting “scouted” content for which we seek permission to use.

C O M P E N S A T I O N

FANTASTIC HORROR DOES NOT PAY ITS CONTRIBUTORS. We hope that they will be compensated by the quality presentation of their work, by lively editorial attention to fact and exactness, and by the community of varied but like-minded artists.

S I M U L T A N E O U S S U B M I S S I O N S

We prefer to avoid the waste of energy that can result when more than one publication is considering the same piece of work. Without some assurance that editorial attention will not be in vain, it would be unfair to draw the focus away from other submissions.

We consider all media

Fantastic Horror is published on the Web, so there’s no reason not to include anything a browser can load. Some media demand more bandwidth than others, so we would prefer to discuss your material before attempting to transfer certain types of files. By comparison, writing is comprised of a very small amount of data; you may send text submissions at will.

Preparation of text

Do your best to eliminate typographical and grammatical errors.
Use a file format that can easily be read on most computers (TXT, RTF, DOC, HTML).
Separate paragraphs with one blank line. Indicate section breaks distinctly.
Emphasize italics _like this_ so they’re harder to miss in transcription.
Insert special instructions [in brackets] where necessary.

Something about you

A creator profile page is built for each author or artist whose work appears in Fantastic Horror. Please supply some biographical information and a picture (either your portrait or something that represents you). See the Hall of Creators for examples.

2008 Production Schedule
New issues of Fantastic Horror are to be released on a regular schedule.
New blog content is unscheduled, announced as it becomes available.


ISSUE	PUBLICATION DATE	STATUS

#4	January 31	Done

#5	March 31	Done

#6	May 31	Done

#7	July 31	Done

#8	September 30	Done

#9	November 30	Filling

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