SNM Horror Magazine

*WE'RE NOW LIVE WITH THE "JULY JUGGERNAUTS" ISSUE # 27!  *CHECK OUT OUR NEW NOVELLA "OCCULTICA" BY SNM & BMG **CHECK OUT OUR SECOND ANTHOLOGY BONDED BY BLOOD II **LOOK FOR BONDED BY BLOOD II ON AMAZON KINDLE NOW!!!  ** A FOND FAREWELL TO POETRY EDITOR, THERESA NEWBILL.  ** COME CHECK OUT THE UPDATES ON OUR SNM STAFF PAGE. 

Duotrope Digest July interview with SNM Horror Mag:

 

Welcome to SNM Horror Magazine, a premiere online publication featuring the best new talent in horror today. We will showcase 8 new short stories each month and publish on the first day of each month, unless posted otherwise. The best part is it’s FREE! Whether it’s to browse around and read the featured authors or even submit a story yourself, we welcome and embrace you into our dark realm of true horror. This mortuary was built by my own grimy appendages from sordid ceremonial grounds and drenched in the blood of disdain and rejection. My ghoulish hands have woven together this underworld to feature some great works from horror authors who haven’t had their imaginative scrolls of horror presented in this inner sanctum from the crypt and into the daylight. We dare to publish what other mags don't, but only in the best of taste! Now come and see why we are the new underground of true horror. You will soon be coming back for more.

Welcome Home to the Mausoleum where the Dead come to play!  

                           Attention Horror Readers:                           

Yes, you heard right, SNM Magazine is FREE to the public! We are here to bring you the best new voices in horror with a new issue every month. Are you ready for the next generation of Stephen King? By previewing the author's featured stories for free, you can decide which authors you like best. All we ask is that you patron the ones you like by buying their novel with the link to their website on where to buy their book. Sign our reader's guestbook and subscribe below to get our free updated monthly newsletters. These writers work very hard to entertain your brain and appreciate your verbal support and interest!

                                 Attention Horror Writers:

Do you have an original short story you want to have published? All first and second time published and self-published writers welcome. If we publish it we will  showcase your story and promote your book or website right underneath your featured work in the hallowed halls of our magazine. If available, we will also post your featured author bio and picture on the site for the month your story is published.We have bi-monthly paying contests and we have published a horror anthology with paying royalties to the contributors featured therein. Submit us your best unpublished fiction! You can promote your book directly through your own channels of distribution and still get your name out to the masses. We charge no fees for any of our services. We are the new Bootcamp of Horror! We can also help get you into HWA with our paying contests. Our philosophy is this: since no one gets famous overnight it's imperative for new writers to get exposure and acquire a good fan base. So it's all about having your stories read, initially. We have become a launching ground for authors, who get feedback from our editors to learn and grow before submitting to pro paying markets. Moreover, we are a theme based magazine, which means by hosting a challenging theme, we force writers to write fresh, new stories instead of just submitting older material or recycled rejects. So dream dark, be unique and write brilliant! Anyone published by SNM can make it in the pro paying markets. We're here to trigger that dark inspiration. 

                                    SNM Mag Promotion:  

Fear not, we have covered all the bases. We are registered with all the major horror directory venues such as Duotrope, Preditors & Editors, Ralan, Horrorfind, Horrorgenre, Every Writer's Resource and more. Additionally, we are listed on all the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask & Aol. We usually post weekly bulletins, blogs and blasts on Myspace where our twisted congregation of depraved freaks eagerly devour our raw carnage offerings. Between our members and readers, writers, interviews and goth girls we've mutated like a tumor! We are averaging over 2,500 unique visits to the website each month and word of mouth helps. Make us become the number one source of FREE horror by telling your friends about us. It's free for them, too! Thanks for visiting SNM Horror. We hope you find it...disturbing.  

Submissions:

We are open to submissions all year and the floodgates have opened! Horror writers wanted dead or alive for dark, cryptic weavings and grim scribe offerings! If you have an original work of horror between 2000-5000 words then send it here, we want to see it! We will also provide feedback if we do not accept it -- usually within thirty days. We accept subs all year round but review 40 days to month featured.

Please read our submission page guidelines before submitting.

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THE SNM HORROR MAGAZINE STAFF,

STEVEN, DAVID, SUZIE & KERRY

*We are now live with the "July Juggernauts," Issue #27! Thanks to everyone who submitted for the August theme. We received an overwhelming 66 submissions for August and have selected 8 featured stories for August Atrocities. We're now reviewing for the September Stalkings theme *More details are available on the submissions link page.

Greetings Gluttons,

Welcome to the July Juggernauts issue of SNM Horror Mag. We have yet another huge “Bang ya to Death” explosive issue to commemorate the 4th of July! We have once again outdone ourselves with high caliber stories that have broken the barriers of cliché writing and have torn down any and all stereotypes still clinging to the horror genre. This particular brand of horror and dark fiction is the closest we’ve come to tapping into the sci-fi genre with post armageddon stories, stories of cataclysmic events, natural disasters, new plagues and unstoppable forces with mass human loss, as the Juggernauts theme would imply.

Wow! This was by far the hardest issue to rank in terms of story placement, so hard we had to call in an outside editor to pick the final rankings as we had to distance ourselves from working so closely with our authors and wanted to be as impartial as possible. We summoned a mythical beast as Guest Overlord for the month. Who better than last month’s SOTM winner, who happens to be a publisher and editor, enough to distinguish these high awards? We would like to thank John Arthur Miller, known by his friends as JAM, for making the selections and taking time from his own press, Liquid Imagination, to do so. I know the writers involved are pleased to have such detailed honest critiques and feedback on their submissions. Readers, you’re in for a real treat this month!

SNM Horror Mag has also broken over 30,000 unique hits to the site from around the world and has now become its own unstoppable force in the horror genre. We are pleased to be able to do so each and every single month with no compromise of quality or consistency. We have an extremely dedicated staff of professionals with established editing backgrounds including David Saliba, Suzie Bradshaw and myself.

Speaking of staff, we have another addition to the SNM family to host our Dark Poetry section who will be taking over Theresa Newbill’s position starting in August. Kerry will still be running her press Pandora’s Imagination, formerly Pagan Imagination. Theresa is concentrating on a new full time job and has been contracted to do a novel and we wish her all the best and thank her so much for opening this new floodgate called SNM Dark Poetry. It’s hard to believe it’s been almost a year already and we have been introduced to some awesome new poets because of her. July will be Theresa’s last month hosting. Taking over for her will be Kerry Morgan, Mistress of Pandora Imagination, effective as of August 2010.

We have an equal balance of male and female authors and new and returning authors here in the July issue:

This month’s horror from 8 unstoppable authors:

Last Supper for Humanity – Tamara Wilhite

The New Plague – Jade Eckert

A Safe Place – Draven Ames

The Burden – Laurie Doyle

No One is Coming – Indy McDaniel

Sanctuary for the Damned – Cynthia Witherspoon

Ye Sands of Time – Trevor Donaldson

Rusty Cage – Kevin McClintock

SNM Dark Poetry hosted by Theresa Newbill.

SNM featured Goth Covergirl: Sadie Cakes

Finally, as promised, our Big Announcement:

Bonded By Blood II: A Romance in Red now available on Amazon Kindle. Download it direct for just $8.00. If you've been unable to pick up the paperback copy on Amazon.com then here is your chance to get the #6 placing anthology of 2009, per the Preditors & Editors Polls. You are out of excuses! 

*Also available in paperback on Amazon.com is the new horror thrillogy novel written by Steven Nicholas Marshall / Brett Matthew Graham entitled “Occultica” for $14. Critics have praised Occultica as “the scariest written work since the original Excorcist.” Own your paperback copy of Occultica and download Bonded By Blood II, both now available on Amazon or Kindle!

May your 4^th bang ya to death with awesome stories!

*We do look forward to continue bringing you the best and darkest new talent in horror for FREE if we can continue to get the support from the public to buy our Bonded By Blood anthologies on Amazon and have a horrifically beautiful (6x9) print paperback to read in bed that will darken your daydreams and illuminate your nightmares! If these don’t impress you, nothing will! Order your copies now -- or at least die trying!

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Bonded By Blood II:

A Romance In Red

SNM Horror Anthology

  Available now through Amazon.com

Darkest Wishes,   Grim Fantasies,   Whips n Spanks,

Steven Marshall    David R.Saliba    Suzie Bradshaw

Welcome to our dysfunctional Addams Family; a Force of Four.

Senior Editor / Moderator - Steven Marshall* Simon

Grammar and Text Editor - David R. Saliba* Randy

Poetry Editor / Contributor - Kerry Morgan* Kara

And THIS...is American Evil. (Insert Spooky Music!)

1st Place - Kevin McClintock - Rusty Cage - SOTM

2nd place - Indy McDaniel - No One is Coming

 

WHISPERS IN THE DARK

It’s the summer of 1982. 7-year old Chad Stanton is moving into a new house with his family. After having a nagging toothache, everything seems to be going wrong for him…then he starts to hear The Voices. Not ones in his head, but ones right there in his room.

They come to him when no one else is around. They taunt him and trick him. They want him to do terrible things to people.

Yet none of the adults seem to believe Chad as he desperately looks for answers, trying to find the source of this unspeakable evil dwelling within the confines of their new home. Is there something living in his closet? Under the stairs? Or just in his head? Chad will have to ask himself what he believes in more: monsters or ghosts.

Or is it something else altogether?  

THE CLACKING

Robert and Elizabeth have been vacationing at the same cabin every summer for as long as they could remember. It’s not that they prefer it to other places. Quite the opposite.

Terrible circumstances make the trip an absolute necessity, but it’s slowly wearing on their health and their sanity. Can they survive another summer struggling with the dark entity that continues to plague them? Or will this be the last vacation they ever take?

THE SOUL BEARER

In the land of death there’s a very specific system. It determines the final resting place for every soul. But every system has its rebels; the ones who refuse to go along with death’s ultimate plan. When this happens, an unstoppable entity is unleashed to hunt them down. Although many have tried none have escaped its merciless wrath. As midnight approaches, the wayward souls become restless. They know it’s coming for them. They know it will erase their very existence from mind to soul…

Can a reporter in life uncover a mysterious phenomenon with his photography? Or will he too succumb to its deadly clutches?

*Buy Occultica for $14.00 (6x9) glossy paperback. 

Collaborative short story plus one each! 150 pages.

*The lineup is now complete for Bonded By Blood II.

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The Second Born Anthology of SNM Horror Mag

Featuring 18 Short Stories of the Month + 2 Bonus Tracks

20 Horror Short Stories, 250 Pages, 94,000 Words. $15.95

Support the featured authors! Order your copy today!

                                                      2010:

Open themed horror submissions from only previously published SNM authors.

Creepy crawly things: spiders, bugs, snakes, rats, infestations or new diseases.

Stories of comas, being buried alive, suffocation, being trapped or imprisoned.

Stories of monstrosities, deformations, mutations, or physical abnormalities.

Stories of irrational fears, paranoia, fears of the unknown, or childhood fears.

Stories of catastrophes, forces of nature, worldwide disaster or multiple deaths

Stories of unspeakable acts, taboo subjects, forbidden fantasies, dark religions.

Stories of serial stalkers, crazed obsession, fond fixations or erratic impulses. 

Bizarro horror, grim atmospheric fantasy, weird worlds, or inhuman characters

Stories of forgotten youth, old age and senility, shades of a former self, ghosts

Stories of the anticipation of death, the act of death, or the aftermath of death. 

 *Means royalty contest paying months for top 3 spots.

Purely for your addiction and to see what high score you can get, we have added in a Haunted Hangman to the site which is different for each holiday when you play it. The current one is for The 4th of July and the high score to beat still is: 1195. See how far you can get or how much the hanging skeleton can ruthlessly taunt you! The high score is set by Crystal Adkins. 

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