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Curious Corvid Publishing

Curious Corvid Publishing is a small queer and woman owned indie press based out of Geneva, Ohio. Representing seventeen authors from around the world, we are passionate about sharing unheard and underrepresented indie voices and stories from the darker side of life.

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Dead Sky Publishing

Dead Sky Publishing, along with its Death’s Head Press imprint, publishes work that is inherently dark across a spectrum of genres and formats. From non-fiction to memoirs, from comic books to novels, from art books and photography books to short story collections.

In Trouble edited by EF Schraeder and Elaine Schleiffer

The voices of In Trouble explore the fantastic and ordinary ways lives are overturned by unplanned or unexpected arrivals. Stories in the anthology vividly examine power and self-determination. 100% of net proceeds are donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds.

The Outer Dark

For the good of the Greater Weird.

Tom Deady

Tom Deady’s novel, Haven, won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. He has since published several novels, novellas, and a short story collection. He holds a master’s degree in creative writing and is a member of the Horror Writers Association and the New England Horror Writers Association.

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Bucket O’Blood Books & Records

Bucket O’Blood Books & Records is Chicago’s premier destination for all horror media. We carry new and used books, vinyl, and movies with a focus on horror, sci-fi, fantasy, heavy metal, punk, hardcore, and industrial.

Butcher Cabin Books

Butcher Cabin Books is Louisville, Kentucky’s only horror bookstore, featuring indie presses, local authors, horror soundtrack vinyl, and locally made art. We ship to anywhere in the US!

Cemetery Gates Media

Cemetery Gates Media is a publisher of supernatural horror and dark fiction. Founded in 2015 by Joe Sullivan and John Brhel. We’ve published a number of themed anthologies, collections, and novels, and have recently produced a line of novellas with Sadie Hartmann under our My Dark Library imprint.

8th Circle Press

8th Circle Press is the Louisville-based publisher of “Oh My Goth: Jokes for When You Feel Dead Inside,” compiled by NY Times bestseller Andrew Shaffer (author of Quirk Books’ “Secret Santa: A Horror for the Holidays Novel”).

EK Eclectic Kreations

EK Eclectic Kreations specializes in making custom products to fit your weirdo needs. Well maybe not your weirdo needs, don’t make it awkward, Kyle. Karrie has to go the extra mile to find an all you can eat crab restaurant she isn’t banned from, and she will go the extra mile for you, too.

Horns and Rattles Press

Established in 2023, Horns and Rattles is Tulsa, Oklahoma’s newest (and weirdest) indie press! We’re currently accepting submissions for the first of our horror/speculative fiction anthologies. The theme is: Submersion.

Horror DNA

“It’s in our blood.”

Jagaloon Press

Tempus Fugit is an interactive book series about time travel with 8 free minigames available on the website

Kathleen Palm

Kathleen Palm is a little light, a little dark, and a lot weird. She loves scary movies and books, and eating chocolate cake. She lives in an old (sadly not haunted) house in Indiana where she resists the urge to run through the killer-infested cornfields.

Madness Heart Press

Madness Heart Press is a publisher of horror fiction, strange roleplaying games, and Jewish genre fiction. We focus on transgressive and experimental literature with themes of anti-fascism, body horror, and ultra-violence.

Preston Fassel

Preston Fassel is an award-winning author and journalist whose work has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue, and Screem Magazine. His debut novel, Our Lady of the Inferno, won the 2019 Independent Publishers’ Gold Medal for Horror. His latest novel, Beasts of 42nd Street, was published March 2023 by Cemetery Dance.

RJ Joseph

RJ Joseph is an award winning, Stoker Award™ nominated Texas based academic and creative writer. She has had works published in various applauded venues. When she isn’t writing, reading, or teaching, she can usually be found wrangling her huge blended family.

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