Research - Where Does the Psychological Horror Genre Publish and How Frequently?

     Hello everyone, welcome back again to another one of my many blog posts. For todays post, I want to continue off of what I was talking about in the last post regarding psychological horror publishing and add on by discussing how frequently it's published.

    So let's start off what I found first. When I searched up the publishing of the psychological horror genre and how frequently it's published, I saw an article giving the top 30 magazines and Anthologies that publish in the horror genre. 

    

    Looking at the first example, there is the Flash Phantoms, specifically in the Halloween section. In this, they prefer any horror story that has about 1,000 words and sometimes 100-word drabbles. Creating horror stories with a word limit, to me, sounds like a challenge since you would have to make a very quick plot to be able to meet the word count and might sound rushed which is why they will pay you $25 if your story is selected. On top of the word count making it a challenge, there is also a short deadline starting from the beginning of August to September 30th. Also, this would typically occur every year.

    Upon looking further, I stumbled across another place that psychological horror can be published and it's through "Kaidanki." This is weekly podcast where they have outlets for stories of the supernatural and they give any kind of literature ranging from poetry, romance, and especially horror. The Kaidanki was created during Edo Japan, in which, they would have 100 people gather in a room and share scary tales while blowing out a candle after each story to make it more ominous and spooky. I think is really cool since it allows for people to create and share stories live on a podcast so people can actually hear reactions of them in real time.

    Moving forward, I kept looking for other examples that can give more insight on where does psychological horror get published and how frequently. So, another good place where psychological horror can be published would be the "Black Hare Press." This press specializes in very specific subgenres of horror and psychological horror is definitely one of them. Their goal is to have people create and send them very gruesome, creepy stories and pay them $5-10. The word limit for this press is much more flexible than the previous one I had mentioned where it was only up to 1,000 words, whereas this press allows anywhere from 500-3,000 words. This gives writers much more freedom to create their stories in more detail so they can portray and truly haunting story. They also have the same deadline as the other press which is on September 30th.

    In conclusion, I would say that reading this article and giving a good amount of places to find and publish psychological horror stories or any other types of horror subgenres. Also, I learned that presses, podcasts, etc. prefer the stories to be sent in before October to give them enough time to review and decide whether they should pick a story to publish for the public to see.

Citations

https://authorspublish.com/30-magazines-and-anthologies-publishing-horror-fiction/