Taking submissions for upcoming Lovecraft eZine THEMED Issues!

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As per usual, writers can submit a Lovecraftian story to me any time (see the submissions page), but in addition, I want to do some themed issues this year, and I’m putting the call out early.  Here is a tentative list of what kind of stories I’d like to publish this year– all stories must fit in the general theme of this magazine (again, see the submissions page for more information):

  • Halloween themes for the October issue.
  • Christmas themes for the December issue.
  • Lovecraftian Sherlock Holmes stories for an issue sometime this year.
  • Deep Ones/Dagon/Innsmouth stories for an issue sometime this year.

Also, I have a “wish list” of sorts for submissions I’d like to see from time to time, if you need more story ideas.  Stories about or set in:

  • Autumn, rain, etc.
  • Winter, blizzards, etc.
  • An all night laundry.
  • An apartment building and/or apartment complex (are there strange goings-on behind your neighbor’s door?, etc…)
  • An all-night trucker or a driving across America theme
  • Stories about lonely people, broken people, etc.

Just throwing a few ideas out there, but three definite things I want to do this year is a Halloween issue, a Christmas issue, and a Sherlock Holmes issue.  Please feel free to comment below if you have questions!  Remember to see the general guidelines, also.

Thanks,
Mike Davis
Publisher/Editor

A.J. French
C0-Editor

19 responses to “Taking submissions for upcoming Lovecraft eZine THEMED Issues!”

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  3. May actually get my Mythos version of the a Sherlockian finished – depends on the submission deadline. (Had the first chapters published in the newsletter of the Sherlock Holmes Society that we used to belong to several years ago. Went over quite well.)

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  4. Just to throw something out there, you might also consider issues themed around odd and exotic time periods and places. Not in typical Mythos places, like America, Egypt, England, the South Pacific and Antarctica. Or at or near the turn of the century. I’ve seen some stories in these issues that are set in Mexico and South America, which is a nice change. What about some mythos action in Holy Roman Empire Vienna, or Tsarist Russia, or even Third Reich Germany, after all, Hitler did dabble. Oh! Dagon and pirates! Someone should do Dagon and pirates!

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    • Yeah, those kind of stories really shouldn’t be the exception. Nor should they require a special occasion or submission call. Those tales are intriguing, and diverse, enough to warrant being written on a regular basis. The Mythos invites speculation on such a wide scale that I’m amazed more Mythos writers don’t actively spend their time writing work set outside the general haunts, but the US and UK especially.

      And, yes, Dagon and pirates *needs* writing. Somebody? Anybody? Everybody? 🙂

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  8. I like the themes. Especially the “lonely people” theme. Im not sure i can write it, but suddenly “wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door” takes a whole new meaning.

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