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"Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror, selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books!"
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Open for submissions

Introduction
Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time
1 week / 1 days
Average acceptance rate
0%

Need to know for submitting

Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox

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      Simultaneous submissions

      No

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      5 c/word

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      Fee

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      Yes

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      Provide contributor copies

      No

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      Examples online

      Yes

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      Active on social media

      Yes

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    Important stuff

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    How to submit 🏗️

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    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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    Awards

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    Demographics & Eligibility

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    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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    Rights for published work 🏗️

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Types of Submissions Accepted

1 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 6000

Max pieces: 1

fantasy

horror

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Fiction

Max words: 6000

Max pieces: 1

fantasy

horror

Magazine

Founded in 2013 | United States

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Sean Wallace
Editor-in-Chief
Clara Madrigano
Co-Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

21

Average acceptance rate

0% (so far)

Average response time

1 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

-/1 days

Fastest response time

0 days

Slowest response time

3 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 63 days