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Open Call
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Subliminal: Below (Sub) + threshold (limen); Existing or operating below the normal limit of conscious awareness. Give us your best horrors hovering just below the threshold … think spaces, transitional states, moments of suspension, the in-between, metamorphosis of consciousness … stretch the limits of our perception and imaginations, and expose what lurks just below the surface.
Dread House Publishing is looking for stories which fall in the category of horror only for this anthology.
This will be an open call. The submission window opens November 1st and closes November 30th.
Absolutely no AI.
Word count limit is set to 6,000 words max.
Reprints will not be accepted for this anthology.
Simultaneous subs allowed. Only one submission will be considered per author.
Selected stories will receive $20 and a copy of the ebook. Paperback author copies may be ordered at printing cost.
Release date TBD. Cover art by Drew Huff.
Submissions may be emailed to a.c.hessenauer@gmail.com starting November 1st.
Please submit your story as an attachment following Shunn formatting guidelines, with both the story title and your last name in the file name. Please include your name and contact information in the header of your document as well.
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“Going to the Six is a claustrophobic, itchy story told in a compulsively readable found-footage style. The combination of shipwrecks, eco-horror, and looming insanity is addictive. Do yourself a favor: open up this book and let the story in.”
—Viggy Parr Hampton, author of The Rotting Room
"Beware: If you read A.C. Hessenauer's Going to the Six too fast, diving in headfirst like I did, you'll end up with the bends by the time you return to the surface.
Never has a novel bubbled over in the bloodstream quite like this book, a haunted document that's equal parts gelatinous eco horror and a waterlogged Blair Witch."
- Clay McLeod Chapman, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Shiny Happy People
“Going to the Six is an experience so close to being inside a found footage horror movie that the pages will almost be shaking in your hands—with authenticity and with fear.
A.C. Hessenauer plays by the film genre’s rules, and this twitchy, itchy story is all the better for it. Paranoia, dread, things maybe or maybe not flitting just outside the camera’s view, and that awful red algae all swirl together to make a horrifying time.”
-Michael Wehunt, Bram Stoker Award winning author of The October Film Haunt
