Phantom Worlds: The Cellar Door Issue #6
Compiled & Edited by Aric Sundquist
Short Story Submission Call: Dec 1, 2024 to Jan 31, 2025 EST.
Short Story Submission Call: Dec 1, 2024 to Jan 31, 2025 EST.
The Cellar Door is a biannual anthology of dark fiction. Each issue will contain 8 to 12 stories based around a specific theme and will include a brand new story from a featured author. The majority of the anthology will be filled from open submissions.
- Title: Phantom Worlds: The Cellar Door Issue #6
- Theme: The Otherworld of Silent Hill. The Upside Down of Stranger Things. The alternate universes in Fringe. Looking for horror/suspense stories that take place when alternate realities invade our own.
- Type: Parallel universe, alternate reality, suspense/thriller, cosmic horror.
- Word Count: 2,000 - 8,000 words.
- Payment: $50.00 + digital & paperback copy.
- Featured Author:
- Accepted Authors (so far): Scotty Milder, (more coming soon...)
- Cover Art: Mikio Murakami
- 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 Previously unpublished only.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: Yes, but state in your email that it is a simultaneous submission, and please email us immediately if the story is sold elsewhere. Also, be sure to follow the Manuscript Format guidelines below when submitting.
- File Format: Include your story as an attachment in MS Word, 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, PW Submission: ("Title") by (Author's Name). For Example, PW Submission: "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" by Stephen King. Attach the story as a separate document.
- Response Time: 4 weeks after submissions close, if not sooner.
- Submission Period: Dec 1, 2024 to Jan 31, 2025 EST.
- Send Submissions to: darkpenpress (at) gmail (dot) com
Influential Movies/TV: In the Mouth of Madness, Silent Hill, The Endless, Donnie Darko, Ink, Triangle, Fringe (TV), Outer Range (TV), Dark (TV), more coming soon...
Influential writings/series: The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, The Mist by Stephen King, Strange Highways (novella) by Dean Koontz, The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft, Nightmareland Chronicles by Daniel Barnett, more coming soon...
Influential writings/series: The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, The Mist by Stephen King, Strange Highways (novella) by Dean Koontz, The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft, Nightmareland Chronicles by Daniel Barnett, more coming soon...
