Phantom Worlds: The Cellar Door Issue #6
Compiled & Edited by Aric Sundquist
Short Story Submission Call: Dec 1, 2024 - Jan 31, 2025 EST
Short Story Submission Call: Dec 1, 2024 - 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 Dreamlands of HP Lovecraft. Looking for horror/suspense stories that take place when alternate realities invade our own.
- Type: Parallel universe, alternate reality, creature feature, 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 Previously unpublished only.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, MH Submission: ("Title") by (Author's Name). For Example, AW 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, Triangle, Donnie Darko, Hellraiser, Fringe (TV), Outer Range (TV).
Influential writings/series: The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer, Nightmareland Chronicles by Daniel Barnett.
Influential writings/series: The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer, Nightmareland Chronicles by Daniel Barnett.