"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!"
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
Simultaneous submissions
No
Previously published
No
Payment
5 c/word
Fee
No
Expedited response
No
Available in print
Yes
Provide contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
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 🏗️
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
Max words: 6000
Max pieces: 1
fantasy
horror
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