Tenebrous Press is seeking Novella submissions until November 30th, 2021.
Please follow these guidelines to the letter, as this will serve as our first round of cuts.
Tenebrous embraces the notion of NEW WEIRD HORROR. We love stories that are proudly Pulp but not easily constrained by a single genre. We go by gut feeling a lot.
Nuts and Bolts:
Target word count : 25,000 - 40,000
Target age group: Mature audiences
What Gives Us the Creeps (in the best ways!):
Brave, relentless Horror stories that start with a punch to the sternum and don’t let up.
Weird Cosmic, Folk Horror, Cult Creeps, Escape Rooms, Body Horror, and anything else you can think of that's fresh and sufficiently Weird
Genre splicing. Nod to the past; embrace progress.
Break our hearts and quease our stomachs in one go.
The Fantastic grounded in Real World Evil. Reality gets as ugly as any Horror story.
Rich characterization. Buried secrets. Drama. Ethical and moral dilemmas. Philosophy and theology. Crisis and identity.
Due to our limited resources as a small press, please be certain your work has been critiqued, edited, and proofed to the best of your ability. If it isn't polished within a hair of final form: do not submit now (and don't panic! We'll be doing this again soon.)
We aim to reply to each submission within two weeks; barring that, you will hear from us within two weeks of the window closing at the very latest.
To submit your work, follow this link.