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Emerald City Ghosts

Emerald City Ghosts is a horror and paranormal fiction magazine inspired by life in the gloomy PNW.

Fictations by Moonlight

By Haly

Dangerous art. Fiction. Non-fiction. Auto-fiction.

Yours, Inigo

By Inigo Laguda

A void scream with legs

Writing & Selling Stories with Angelique Fawns

The best PAYING NO-FEE open submission short story call list, plus FREE FICTION. Sundays: Market Information & Lists. Wednesdays: The Chronicles of Roxie Vega. Fridays: Free Reprint Fiction and why it sold!

Monster of the Week

By Jessica

Here there be monsters, the real life one and the ones imagined. This is a place for speculative fiction, the kind where horror meets heart.

Everyone needs a bit of monster in their lives. There are beasts here that you've never headr of before... expand your mental menagerie

- Nick Winney

Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler

Exclusive fiction too out-there for prime time, by the author of Fight Club. Writing lessons. Lurid back story.

Cicada Cult

By Aurelian Ashmore

Ritual Horror. Dark fables. Poetry. Words for the marked.

The Strangeness Kit

By A.P. Murphy

‘There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.’ -------- Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam

The Curious Post

By Nico Harlakenden

Seeking submissions for revivified publication with limited, closely-monitored readership. 🧿

THE FICTION DEALER

By The Fiction Dealer

Psst... wanna read a story?

Every day Miguel gives you an interesting prompt and a mental challenge, and every day you get to read 20 different little short stories - its great!

- Nick Winney

Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

Substack's biggest and brightest circus of single author short fiction from two-time Best of Detroit Best Author Nominee Jimmy Doom-- "One of this century's master storytellers"

His stories are brilliant and incessant. Some of them will stop you dead.

- Nick Winney

Keye Martin

Things you write at the end

For poems so good they hurt. Ouch.

- Nick Winney

Ink After Dark

By Erica Drayton

Horror and mystery fiction told in many forms: 100 Word Stories, short stories, & serials.

Top In Fiction

By TiF Team

Where Fiction Lives!

Erica gathers together and encourages great writers and great writing in a way that selflessly supports us all. Support her right back!

- Nick Winney

Graphomania with M.P. Fitzgerald

The circus is here, and you forgot to lock your door: M.P. Fitzgerald writes dark-humored sci-fi for dream criminals.

DOOM FICTION

By William Pauley III

Psychedelic stories for adventurous readers. Proceed with caution.

William writes stuff that its hard to categorise - gory, gleeful, imaginative, funny, endearing, revulsing envy-making - he's got something all of his own and you should experience it.

- Nick Winney

Everything Is Amazing

By Mike

A newsletter about asking better questions & a romp through science in search of a good "wow!" you can feel down to your boots.

SHE WHO STIRS THE STORM

By Gloria Horton-Young

Poet, painter, storyteller, rabble-rouser – a tempest in red lipstick. Expect provocative opinions, spirited rants, and lots of laughter. This is my playground, the rules are rewritten daily.

Gloria writes simply stunning poetry. She inhales the world and exhales in verse.

- Nick Winney

100 Stories by Adam Nathan

In February 2024 I committed to writing one story a month for a hundred months. This is the journey to May 2032. Join me Sunday mornings at 9:00AM for the stories, the backstories, and audio.

Only Child Originals

By Garen Marie

Horror and dark stories inspired by fairy tales and folklore straight from the witch's oven with the occasional dash of green magic, tarot, and the terrible beauty of life.

Catch & Release

By Ben Wakeman

A free-ranging collection of creative work in the form of speculative short fiction and novels, songs, essays, and multimedia made with the intention of connecting and inspiring.

D.W. Davison

Speculative fiction by Daniel W. Davison

Some very well written horror can be found slithering about here, just beyond the ring of light...

- Nick Winney

SLAKE

By Nathan Slake

Fiction, mostly.

Some of the things he writes make you go - where in God's name did he get that from. He's got threads into the abyss and he pulls things out from it.

- Nick Winney

Loser’s Fiction

By Keith Long

To love is to lose. To write fiction is to speak truth.

Keith Long writes superb stories - there is no getting away from it...its coming for you....just beyond the light.

- Nick Winney

Entropic Absurdity

By Zani D

Random essays, prompts, and micro fiction from five ducks in a trenchcoat. Results may vary, viewer discretion is advised, please leave your message after the beep.

Zani is some kinda shamanic entity - you will wonder where her powers and prose come from - some of the most affecting personal stories and biting fiction you can hope to find. AND DUCKS... no, really. check 'em out.

- Nick Winney

Burnt Tongue

By Emil Ottoman

Fiction is Culture. No gods, just authors. Underground lit. Ritual crit. The gospel of the broken sentence, dissected by the "Official Unofficial Editor" of the Fiction tab.

The fingers of his fiction slide through your flesh, grip you and rattle your bones. His advice is worth your time to read.

- Nick Winney

MEAT SANDWICH

By Drew Valdez

Hello everybody! This where we discuss the MEAT. Stories, prompts, and anything fiction.

Written Ward: Fiction & Field Notes

By John

A blend of storytelling and insight: Twilight Zone-inspired fiction, deep dives into the Substack ecosystem, conversations with fellow creators, and art that catches the eye, all shared through a spirit of curiosity and discovery.

Mr Ward gathers interesting people who write interestingly, about interesting stuff and then they talk about it. It's great.

- Nick Winney

Drek Death and Doom

By Dylan Bosworth

The official newsletter of horror author Dylan Bosworth, owner of Drek Death and Doom Publishing

Talebones ✨

By S.E. Reid

Home of the Ferris Island Tales! Short and serialized fiction from S.E. Reid: speculative stories with a spiritual, supernatural, or uncanny twist.

A fabulous world brought to life with fabulous prose.

- Nick Winney

Lunar Awards

By Winston Malone

Recognizing and sharing the best fantasy, horror, and science fiction on Substack.

SUbmit yourself to the challenge; read amazing work by writers that know what theyre doing; share ideas amongst supportive artists. Its what Substack is all about!

- Nick Winney

Automatic Writer

By Sean Thomas McDonnell

Horror fiction with an abundance of quiet dread and moral ambiguity.

Sean writes some of the best, most visceral fiction you can ever hope to read.

- Nick Winney

Macabre Monday

By Jeff Kinnard

Lunaediesophobia (Loo-Nay-Die-So-Fo-Bee-A) - an abnormal fear or hatred for Monday. Fear not, you found the antidote. The best of horror can be found here, celebrated by it's community. Recommendations, discussions, contests, and more await you..

Start the week with a big wet slice of horrible pie. The filling is red and thick and it looks like cherry...but is it?

- Nick Winney

DARKLING

By JLG Noga

Home of ANTARA, a speculative crime/horror anthology series set in a fictional East Asian city-state + other assorted short stories and flash fiction + REEL STORIES, an essay series on lesser-known book-to-movie adaptations.

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

Stunningly beautiful prose which will make you think about what is important, and read in a restful sublime voice to make every Sunday morning a delight

- Nick Winney

Just Wonderin'

By James Worth

Wondering, as in, does anybody know what's going on? Fiction, poetry, essays, I am wandering in the dark toward some future hope. I'd like to find you there.

James has so much talent its really quite unreasonable for the die to have been cast in this way. You simply must experience his stories and his dry laconic wit.

- Nick Winney

Heavy is the Headset

By Will Boucher

Weird fiction for weirder times.

the velvet

By will seven christopher

the sleep that plays at death

The Literary Salon with Thaddeus Thomas

From literary fantasy author, Thaddeus Thomas: discover fiction and improve your prose style. "I've finally found the deep dive, line-level craft essays I've been craving." -- Gemorabilia

A very wise and generous man. His prose is perfection, his stories are to die for and he gives a hell of a lot to the community here - read and learn.

- Nick Winney

Honeygloom

A forest witch's coven, home to 100% plant-based horror, black magic, Deadwater, and all the delights of Hell.

In the Inversion Field

By Sandolore Sykes in the Inversion Field

Suspended just high enough to let the earth do the moving for me. Fiction, Art, Culture, Life & Critters.

SAndalore is one of the world's treasures - bring her into your world - the room will brighten, you will be uplifted. You will smile. You will meet new intriguing friends. And she has a magic telephone, 100% magical.

- Nick Winney

Vinny Reads

A newsletter providing reviews and commentary on works of literature, as well as essays, and occasional short fiction.

SUM FLUX

By Sandolore Sykes

Welcome to SUM FLUX, a repository of extraordinary prose.

AN explosive mix of talent - written and visual - be astounded every time!

- Nick Winney

Age of Aquarius

By EJ Trask

Scary stories for grown ups.

Velvet Guillotine

By Haly

News and opinions from the indigo heart of the orange ghetto. Fiction is Culture, FiC is Family.

THE SHIELDBREAKER SAGA

By Tom Schecter

A people's last hope for survival is a nineteen-year-old kid who may be out of his fucking mind.

In A Different Place

By Evelyn K. Brunswick

A glimpse into the better worlds you have lost, starring a girl from a parallel world called Katrina

Von’s Substack

Letter exchanges, articles, and fiction that take God and His Law seriously. I post on an eclectic variety of subjects. I LOVE comments, especially well argued negative ones.

A Bunch of Fives

By James Roderick Burns

Stories by James Roderick Burns

Mr Burns writes touching, strange, and down right weird stories and he writes them very well.

- Nick Winney

The Midnight Vault

By J. Curtis

Unlocking worlds of sci-fi, horror, and the unknown.

A superb collaborative call, full of nostalgia. Drawing out the creative threads of the weird, macabre and horrifying.

- Nick Winney

The Why & the Why Not

Recommended by Nick Winney