TL;DR Press presents horror lineup for Autumn Quarterly
Greetings, Pumpkin spiced children of the night!
We challenged you to offer up your darkest, most disturbing, spine-tingling horror submissions to the sacrificial altar of TL;DR Press for our delectation, and boy, did you deliver! Below, we present the disturbing lineup for the upcoming spooktacular Horror collection.
How we got here
We began in July with a call for submissions to writers to help us create a collection of horror stories to benefit the Pilcrow Foundation for our inaugural Autumn Quarterly.
Our editorial team consisted of two curators and eight additional editors, all of whom were integral to the success of this project thus far. The curators include Joe Butler and Camden M Collins. The additional editors include Callum Colback, David Clark, Sarah Linders, Alex Hareland, Casey Reinhardt, and Dan Alvarez.
We have a few goals with this project: To support the Pilcrow Foundation with a fantastic story collection, to give every writer who submitted a piece the opportunity to receive feedback and improve their submission before judging, and to scare the pants off of our readers in new and interesting ways.
From July to September, we worked with the authors (and each other) to mentor, edit, and judge. As with our previous collections, we paired every interested writer with a first editor, who worked with them to create the strongest piece they could moving forward. The first editor scored the final piece from 1 to 10, and passed it on to a second editor, who scored as well. The average of the two scores became the piece’s final score.
We were blown away by the quality of the submissions to this collection! We received 73 chilling stories by the end of the call for submissions and so many delivered scary, innovative pieces of horror from across the genre.
We want to thank the #tldrwriters community for your stories and support while we curated a fantastic lineup of new voices. This collection is the work of hundreds of hours thus far, and we can’t wait to share it with the world.
The lineup*
*Please note there may be some discrepancies between this list and the published version.
Deer in December by Emily Deibler
Conspiracy Theory Weekly Issue #289 by Ryan Walraven
The Bone Keys by T.A. Sola
The Trip by Tee Linden
Cream of You by Diane Callahan
We by Joe Butler
Tsukumogami by Lyle Enright
Family Dinner by C. Scott Frank
A Simple Shave by Gareth Topping
Asphyxia by Joshua Stoll
Cheek to Cheek by Mike Blackwelder
Fritz by Brad McNaughton
Faceless by Shanika Bynum
911, What Is Your Emergency? by Ralph Benton
The Rectification of Walter Piggott by Kurt Newton
The It by Philip Hauser
Mama by Tara Keiser
The Wizard’s Heart by Callum Colback
Cluster by Sarah Linders
The Ghost Story of Clair Clairmont by Carrie Connel-Gripp
A Sense Less by Chanelle Loftness
Nyx Nocturnally by Daniel Alvarez
Ethereal Hunger by Douglas Sisson
Too Hungry, Too Bloody by Katie Conrad
The Lowland Hunger by Jim Johanson
It Works by Kat Veldt
Congratulations to the 26 accepted writers! If you’d like to congratulate them as well, please join in the celebrations on Twitter!
When can I buy it?
We plan to release the collection just before Halloween, and will keep updates on this blog, on our Twitter, on Facebook, and in our writing group.
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