The nonfiction thread - v2
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:42 am
This is for those who been known to write horror fiction most of the time, I am wondering if some of you can scare people by writing true stories too. I've been prone to write some rather visceral material but what I am looking for with the magazine is also stories that are gothic in nature but they are true. Average out about 3300 to 9800 words for the nonfiction, and I will be publishing seven fiction stories too as well as seven nonfiction stories.
Serling and Matheson got known for both writing nonfiction, Lovecraft did so with a long essay too studying the subject of horror in the ages. What I am looking for in mind is either the true ghost story or the health scare, two of those alone would create a Gothic tale if written in the works of fiction. I publish a lot of what they call Weird Menace type horror, but now I am looking for the H.P. Lovecraft of the nonfiction realms.
I will take submissions via msn messenger or yahoo pager too as well as email. The scarier the nonfiction is, the better. I want to make Rod Serling and the other writers who captured the darkness before us proud.
They must be well executed in nature -- and publish ready. If I do this from my relatives I don't have word to do all the edits on the computer, but if I do it from the apartment I do but it isn't a fast computer and need the all-nighters in the world to edit them. I will consider snail mail subs as long they're on a floppy disk or a CD-R, if you want my p.o. box, contact me privately because I don't want any tools sending me junk mail.
The word counts: I am looking for stories between 2400 to 9800 words fiction or nonfiction, just scare the ever living fuck out of me. If you can do that with a true story, that takes real talent. It also adds a dimension to your fiction writing when you go back to write fiction. I've been doing fiction as long as I have been doing nonfiction, and sold my nonfiction to various publications in the small press. I will be appearing with ED LEE the author of Flesh Gothic on Withersin with my nonfiction and with my photography -- so if you got photography they go hand in hand.
Aleister, if you want to contribute nonfiction to this monster too go for it -- I am looking for really gothic in nature here. Gothicism is the key with the nonfiction, meaning if you know a girl who actually goth's out and actually comes up with some truly scary shit -- I want to hear about it. Health scares, ghostly encounters, psychological vampires, or other scary subject matter will be fair game here.
Serling and Matheson got known for both writing nonfiction, Lovecraft did so with a long essay too studying the subject of horror in the ages. What I am looking for in mind is either the true ghost story or the health scare, two of those alone would create a Gothic tale if written in the works of fiction. I publish a lot of what they call Weird Menace type horror, but now I am looking for the H.P. Lovecraft of the nonfiction realms.
I will take submissions via msn messenger or yahoo pager too as well as email. The scarier the nonfiction is, the better. I want to make Rod Serling and the other writers who captured the darkness before us proud.
They must be well executed in nature -- and publish ready. If I do this from my relatives I don't have word to do all the edits on the computer, but if I do it from the apartment I do but it isn't a fast computer and need the all-nighters in the world to edit them. I will consider snail mail subs as long they're on a floppy disk or a CD-R, if you want my p.o. box, contact me privately because I don't want any tools sending me junk mail.
The word counts: I am looking for stories between 2400 to 9800 words fiction or nonfiction, just scare the ever living fuck out of me. If you can do that with a true story, that takes real talent. It also adds a dimension to your fiction writing when you go back to write fiction. I've been doing fiction as long as I have been doing nonfiction, and sold my nonfiction to various publications in the small press. I will be appearing with ED LEE the author of Flesh Gothic on Withersin with my nonfiction and with my photography -- so if you got photography they go hand in hand.
Aleister, if you want to contribute nonfiction to this monster too go for it -- I am looking for really gothic in nature here. Gothicism is the key with the nonfiction, meaning if you know a girl who actually goth's out and actually comes up with some truly scary shit -- I want to hear about it. Health scares, ghostly encounters, psychological vampires, or other scary subject matter will be fair game here.