by Editor
on July 8, 2020
Sun Of Brass, Moon Of Tin
BY LEONARD ONIONHOUSE
This Leonard Onionhouse story won an honorable mention in last summer’s competition. It was ahead of it’s time—but not by much. We begin accepting submissions for our Fall contest on August 1.
There were four lights in those days; four lamps that lit the farm country of my youth:
The greater light of the Sun,
The lesser light of the Moon,
The pearl glow of Kerosene, and
The dim flicker of Candles, vague and shadow-wrought.
Electricity was a mere curiosity that we read about in the papers. The cities blazed with arc lights and incandescent bulbs. But on the prairie we had few barriers to the dark. And when night came, it settled in with the immensity of an ancient flood.
I was thirteen that summer. A thin and silent, black-haired boy. Yet, a strangeness gathered in me. An odd quickening in the blood that I felt and that I feared. Mother noted it soberly, as she scrubbed me in the galvanized metal tub. That black mop of hair, so wild and resistant to combing, was no longer confined to my head. Manhood had begun to creep into my flesh. [continue reading…]
by Editor
on July 1, 2020
The Full-Length Fiction Contest Runs Spring & Fall
A month from today—August 1—we begin accepting submissions for The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award. Halloween publication, $1k first prize. Magic realism and supernatural short stories. Can’t wait to start reading again!
by Editor
on June 20, 2020
May You Have A Chilling Summer Solstice!
0ur Summer 2020 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award-winning stories are now published. Have a look! And keep in mind that we’ll being accepting submissions to our Fall competition on August 1. Happy reading.
by Editor
on March 20, 2020
The Supernatural Fiction Award—A Message
Hi, writers. Lest you think we might be distracted from reading your work by current events —we are not. In fact, reading stories submitted to The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition is perhaps more important to us now than it’s ever been. Not only does reading your work help distract us from the non-supernatural horror going on around us, but it helps us focus on what is, and what always will be, the reason we do this thing: To showcase the best in supernatural short stories that the world has to offer. Thanks for listening. Kudos for continuing to produce art, though you might be frightened, and your heart might be breaking. We’ll get through this—maybe a little sadder, but also wiser and stronger. — Your Editor
