![]() ![]() If your love language is recommending stories by Carmen Maria Machado, your taste is up our alley. If your jam is recreating Grimms’ fairytales with a badass feminist spin, we want to hear from you. We want a “full-bodied” experience when reading your work. As a rule, no gratuitous blood and guts, no profanity, and no pornography. Don’t take us to another planet or gore us to death. We are looking for high-literary taste and atmosphere. Please do not send work which upholds the “typical” horror tropes. Creatures with monstrous appetites or, even more sinister, the monster inside us all. ![]() An “other” capable of inspiring both passion and dread. We are calling for submissions closer to realism but including elements of horror, suspense, magical realism, spec-fic, whimsy, and the “uncanny.” We want work which surprises us more than the ending of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a piece which transmogrifies, making us ask, “How did she do that?” Send us something spiny which cannot be swallowed. Which then begs the question: what do we talk about when we talk about horror? This year, we at FOLIO have goosebumps in welcoming our very first all-horror issue. They make sense on the level of a dream – or a nightmare.” -Victor LaValle “The best monsters are our anxieties given form. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” -H. ![]()
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