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use…the fantastic to illuminate aspects of our contemporary experience…literariness and originality…poems that play with design and use space creatively
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Dark humor and twisted tales. Subtitle -- Twisted Tales For Dysfunctional Minds. Sex is great as well as violence, gore, religious exploitation…Horror must be humorous.
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Vampire (bloodsucking kind) poetry and fiction. Brooding, atmospheric stories, emphasis on Fantasy, not Horror, gothic feel. Elegantly crafted prose and well-developed characters, plot. Vampires may be either protagonists or villains.
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We now accept fantasy work, which means elves, fairies, and the like are all acceptable, but wizards, unicorns, sword & sorcery type fantasy is not.
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Hadrosaurs…looked remarkably like early depictions of unicorns. To us, this merging of creature of science and creature of fiction is the ideal symbol.
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...in the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Seabury Quinn, Hugh Cave, and other authors from the classic era of pulp fiction.
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…goal of breaking sterotypes by maintaining high production values and expanding the traditional genre audience…gore, superviolent, or excessively explicit subject matter needs to be justified by quality of story. Most fantasy will not be published…
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…stories that are too bizarre for mainstream publications but that do not fit the standard mold of genre. The preference is for stories that develop out of character rather than fiction based on ideas.
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Humor, mild chills and thrills, gross stuff and thoughtful insights into supernatural creatures are more in line with what we are seeking.
