Night Terror Novels is a new British specialist horror small press, opening for submissions of novels and novellas soon. For now they need anthology submissions, ‘fresh horror content of all forms and flavours, to cater to every taste’. They accept ‘tales of ghosts or ghouls, bloodsuckers or wolfmen; from Victorian haunts to hardcore splatterpunk, genre-defying transgressive fiction and everything else in between’. Make it ‘mysterious and macabre.’ They will also feature reviews of films and novels within the genre, plus ‘ghoulish list features’.
Their first anthology seeking stories is ‘inspired by artist René Magritte’s The Treachery of Images,’ and the team want ‘short stories of surrealist, transgressive fiction with a horror twist.’ Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature which focuses on characters ‘who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free of those confines in unusual or illicit ways’. Titled Ceci n’est pas une histoire d’horreur This is Not a Horror Story, the anthology will be edited, and the stories selected, by JD Keown.