Negative Space 3: The End of All Sanctuary
Compiled & Edited by Aric Sundquist
Short Story Submission Call: Dec 1, 2025 - Jan 31, 2026 (currently closed)
Short Story Submission Call: Dec 1, 2025 - Jan 31, 2026 (currently closed)
- Title: Negative Space 3: The End of Sanctuary
- Theme: Survival horror. Specifically looking for horror stories with a siege, home invasion, or isolation sub-theme, found in movies like Night of the Living Dead, Dog Soldiers, Vacancy, Evil Dead, and Prince of Darkness. Please note: this is NOT a market for military horror, space opera/adventure, or weird western horror. You can read the introduction to book one HERE.
- Accepted authors (so far): Eric J. Guignard (invited author)
- Cover Art: Mikio Murakami.
- Word Count: 2,000 - 8,000 words.
- Payment: $50.00 + digital copy.
- Rights: We are seeking first time rights for 1 year after publication. After that time all rights revert back to the author. The publication will appear in both print and digital formats.
- Reprints: None. Previously unpublished only.
- Multiple Submissions: None.
- Simultaneous Submissions: None. (Responses are quick, and sent within a couple weeks.)
- File Format: Include your story as an attachment in MS Word (DOC or DOCX), LibreOffice, or Rich Text Format.
- Manuscript Format: Use the Modern or Classic Shunn Format. Include a short bio in the body of your email. Your subject line should read NS3 Submission: ("Title") by (Author's Name). For Example, NS3 Submission: "The Black Phone" by Joe Hill. Attach the story as a separate document.
- Response Time: Two weeks after submissions close, if not sooner.
- Submission Period: Dec 1, 2025 - Jan 31, 2026
- Publication Date: Fall 2026 (trilogy publishes triennially 2020, 2023, 2026)
- Send Submissions to: darkpenpress (at) gmail (dot) com
Influential Games/Series: Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Clock Tower, Dead Space, Rule of Rose, Siren, Parasite Eve, Amnesia, Haunting Ground, Obscure, Eternal Darkness, Outlast, The Evil Within, Tormented Souls.
Influential Novels & Novellas: The Mist by Stephen King, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Off Season by Jack Ketchum, The Troop by Nick Cutter, (more coming soon...)
Influential Movies/TV: Night of the Living Dead, The Descent, Dog Soldiers, Prince of Darkness, The Thing, Evil Dead, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Vacancy, Alien, Cube, Intruders (2015), Howl (2015), Green Room, Demon Knight, From Dusk Til Dawn.
Influential Novels & Novellas: The Mist by Stephen King, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Off Season by Jack Ketchum, The Troop by Nick Cutter, (more coming soon...)
Influential Movies/TV: Night of the Living Dead, The Descent, Dog Soldiers, Prince of Darkness, The Thing, Evil Dead, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Vacancy, Alien, Cube, Intruders (2015), Howl (2015), Green Room, Demon Knight, From Dusk Til Dawn.
