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Tor Books

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Short stories - Horror & Dark Fantasy Genre 

Cemetery Dance

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rt: 2-4 months

Great horror mag! Love it :)

City Slab (Adult)

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rt: < 2 months

City Slab: Urban Tales of the Grotesque is a full-sized magazine published quarterly.

Dreams of Decadence

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Dreams of Decadence is devoted to vampire fiction and poetry.

Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show - Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine

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rt: 3 months

Good pay rates!

Vestal Review

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rt: 3 months

Vestal Review is a magazine for flash (short-shorts) fiction. Please note this market utilizes reading periods for each edition.

Short stories - Fantasy Genre 

Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show - Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine

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rt: 3 months

Good pay rates!

Fantasy and Science Fiction

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rt - 8 weeks (usually much less)

The award-winning Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949. The original publisher of Stephen King's Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz.

Great pay rates, but extremely selective. If you write sf/f, this should be the first market you submit to because of the ridiculously fast response time.

Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature

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rt: 3-5 mos on hard copy submissions; higher for e-mail submissions

Black Gate publishes epic fantasy fiction at all lengths, including novel excerpts, as well as articles, news and reviews. We're looking for adventure-oriented fantasy fiction suitable for all ages, as long as it is well written and original.

Clarkesworld Magazine

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Clarkesworld Magazine is an online venue and chapbook series for short works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Each month, Clarkesworld will publish two pieces of fiction, one from a prominent author with one or more books available for sale on the Clarkesworld Books website, and one chosen from the rolling open call for submissions below. Anyone who has not been solicited and is not currently under consideration for the "prominent author" slot may submit. Science fiction need not be "hard" SF, but rigor is appreciated. Fantasy can be folkloric, medieval, contemporary, surreal, etc. Horror can be supernatural or psychological, so long as it is frightening. There are no barriers as to levels of profanity, gore, or sexuality allowed, but high amounts of profanity, gore, and sexuality are generally used poorly. Be sure to use them well if you do use them. Within two months of online publication, each month's stories will be printed in a limited edition numbered chapbook that will be signed by both contributors.

Writer may submit no more than one story per week.

Short stories - Myster/Suspense Genre 

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

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We publish every kind of mystery short story: the psychological suspense tale, the deductive puzzle, the private eye case-the gamut of crime and detection from the realistic (including the policeman's lot and stories of police procedure) to the more imaginative (including "locked rooms" and "impossible crimes"). We need hard-boiled stories as well as "cozies," but we are not interested in explicit sex or violence. We do not want true detective or crime stories. Accepts longer and shorter submissions--including minute mysteries of 250 words, and novellas of up to 20,000 words from established authors. We are especially happy to review first stories by authors who have never before published fiction professionally. First-story submissions should be addressed to EQMM's Department of First Stories.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

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We are interested in nearly every kind of mystery, however: stories of detection of the classic kind, police procedurals, private eye tales, suspense, courtroom dramas, stories of espionage, and so on. We ask only that the story be about a crime (or the threat or fear of one). We sometimes accept ghost stories or supernatural tales, but those also should involve a crime. We prefer that stories not be longer than 14,000 words; most of the stories in the magazine are considerably shorter than that.

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