Pick up a copy of Arkham Tales, a quarterly PDF magazine devoted to “weird” fiction: supernatural suspense and adventure stories informed by (though not imitative of) the pulp fiction of the early 20th century.

I have openings in the upcoming Issue #8 for both submissions and advertisers.

Submission guidelines for original Fiction:

Arkham Tales is predominantly a showcase of original short fiction, encompassing pulp adventure, weird horror (including Lovecraftian influence, obviously), the supernatural and the fantastic. “Straight” science fiction, murder mystery, etc., will be rejected unless there is a weird or fantastic element. We prefer story lengths up to 6,000 words but will consider longer – just realize that a long story will have to be better than the two or three shorter stories it would replace.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in MS Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, in standard manuscript format (see here: http://www.sfwa.org/category/manuscript-formatting/). Please do not copy your submission into the body of your email – doing so will get your submission immediately rejected without a response.

While we appreciate and welcome submissions which show the influence of the classic pulp and weird fiction authors, Arkham Tales is not a venue for fan-fiction or continuations of other writers’ characters or worlds; we will also reject stories set recognizably in specific RPG campaign settings. Even “Lovecraftian” stories should be more than a concatenation of Mythos references connected by antiquated adjectives.