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Horror Bound Magazine is a literary magazine primarily for horror fiction, however, we also feature dark fantasy, noir, thriller and speculative fiction.

To submit your work for consideration please review our submission guidelines.

We feature short stories, poetry, art, book reviews and interviews with the top talent in the field today and more!

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Call for Submissions: Upcoming Anthology

Call for Submissions: Fear of the Dark: An Anthology Published by Horror Bound Magazine Publications

Horror Bound Magazine Publications seeks short stories for an upcoming anthology entitled Fear of the Dark (Temporary Title). The point of the stories should be to investigate the human fear of the unknown, the dark, and the common themes found in nightmares. Please click on the READ MORE tab below to read the entire Call for Submissions

Issue #11 Featured Interview

ISSUE #11 FEATURED INTERVIEW: AUTHOR NANCY KILPATRICK
by Liz Worth

NANCY KILPATRICK is about to introduce you to the “new undead.”

The award-winning writer based in Montreal, Canada, has authored an immense body of work, much of focused on vampires, including 19 published books, over 200 short stories, and five short story collections. She’s received accolades from horror luminaries the likes of Brian Lumley and Poppy Z. Brite, to name but two, and is often cited as Canada’s “literary queen of the undead.”

Horror Bound welcomes author Nancy Kilpatrick in our Issue #11 FEATURED INTERVIEW

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Contributor Profile:

Liz Worth is a Toronto-based writer and the author of Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond (Bongo Beat, 2009) and Eleven: Eleven, which is surreal punk fiction about death and debauchery, available through TRAINWRECK PRESS.

Issue #11

ISSUE #11 FEATURED SHORT STORIES

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Stephanie L. Morrell has always been a fan of horror whether it was in films, novels, or short stories. She was fortunate to have played Lucy in a theater production of, Dracula, one of her favorite books. Writing is a great passion of hers and she has completed her first book, Notes From a Vampire. She is currently working hard to get it published, until then; Morrell is writing her second book as well as several new short stories.

Read Inside the Box

Matthew Burgess is currently attending The University of Massachusetts and is working towards a degree in Creative Writing. He has written several novels, the latest an urban fantasy, Leviathion's Touch is currently under consideration. In addition he has written and published numerous short stories, the most recent The Girls of the Apocalypse was published in “The Nautilus Engine” magazine. He will also have a story featured in “The Zombie Chronicles” anthology by John Savoie (friend to Horrorbound.com). His writing interests revolve around horror and urban fantasy however, he enjoys reading all types of fiction.

Read Never Show Fear

Michael Lee is an aspiring author of horror and dark fiction. His works have won several online fiction contests, and he has one previously published short story to his credit. He makes his home in Connecticut.

Read The Road To World's End

Matt Leukroth is the author of dozens of short stories, some of which have been previously published in The Edge, Tickled by Thunder, Black Satellite, and Outer Darkness. His novella, Devil’s Mountain, is currently available as a Crystal Codice from Scribblers & Inkspillers Press. Aside from writing shorts, Matt is enjoying the soft publishing industry by querying literary agents on an impossible-to-synopsize novel. Matthew lives in Naples, Florida where he is an avid student of the Martial Arts, camping enthusiast, and slightly loony single father to three single-digit-aged kids."

Read Pink Eyes

Paul Nemeth was born in 1970 in Wheatridge, Colorado and raised in neighboring Arvada. The son of two music teachers and youngest of four siblings, Paul learned to read by age three and spent much of his childhood writing stories to entertain himself and his family. His debut novel "Cataclysm Children" is now available from Amazon and online through Barnes & Noble: go to www.paul-nemeth.com for details.

Read The Monkey in the Mirror

Steven Whitfield lives in Greenville, South Carolina with his wife Anita, a writer of fantasy and children’s stories. He feels it's an honor to again be published in Horrorbound Magazine because of the opportunity to be published among other writers with such fine talent. He enjoys reading each issue of Horrorbound immensely. Whitfield has been published in Suspense Magazine, and the Anything Ghost podcast.

Witch's Cemetery

Brian Wright lives in the United Kingdom. He spends part of his days trying to come up with short stories. His other interests include history, rock music and learning Japanese. Somehow he has managed to get one or two of his stories into print magazines like Twisted Tongue and online magazines like The Harrow.

Read Honeymoon in Vegas and Crazy Love

ISSUE #11 FEATURED POETRY

A long time zombie lore enthusiast, Marion Reed enjoys using the element of horror in order to explore the human condition or sometimes, to simply generate a bit of humor. As a student of Long Ridge Writers Group and a member of the Shoreline Cluster of Poets, both in Connecticut, Marion enjoys storytelling whether in prose or verse.

Read For the Love of Brains (a zombie sonnet)

Jason Baki is an aspiring writer of dark speculative fiction, an artist and a poet from London, UK. He has worked as a police officer, a prison resettlement worker, and a tarot reader amongst other things. He has an abiding interest in Classical Mythology, European Paganism and Central Asian Shamanism. He is a supporter of rights for tribal people worldwide.

Read Ghost

ISSUE #10 - INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

David Gaider is the principal writer for the awesome "heroic dark fantasy" video game DRAGON AGE (BioWare). Gaider takes us into a day in the life of a video game writer and discusses the writing process, challenges and opportunities of the field, as well as offering a closer look at the game itself.

Horror Bound is pleased to present an interview with David Gaider as conducted by Rex Chance, Horror Bound Video Game Specialist. Read the interview HERE!

ISSUE #10 - FEATURED SHORT STORIES

ISSUE #10 - FEATURED SHORT STORIES

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Charlie Loudowl was born and raised on the Canadian Great Plains where he developed an appreciation for solitude, an interest in writing, and an attraction to robots, rayguns, zombies, horror, and the weird. He currently lives in the quiet suburbs of Calgary, Alberta with his wife, twin girls, and dog, where he divides his time between writing, painting, and playing music. Loudowl is the author of THE STILL BEATING HEART. A short story featured in the anthology RETURN OF THE RAVEN (Horror Bound Magazine Publications, 2009).

Read Destruction a Go-Go

Born in Philadelphia, PA, T.A. Bradley served with the Army Medical Corps during Vietnam as a Clinical Specialist. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Microbiology with Master's work in Virology. He has since worked for a number of biotech companies as a virologist.

Bradley is the author of several short stories, with one completed novel and two in the works. Two of his short stories, Weeping Willow and The Progeny have been accepted for publication in Horror in Words magazine. Weeping Willow appeared in their August 09 issue.

Read House for Sale and The Last Transaction

Wayne C. Rogers is a 59 year old Las Vegas casino worker whose passion is writing. His first horror/suspense story was published way back in 1986 in Stephen King's old alma mater, Cavalier magazine. Since then, he's written over three dozen short stories and over four hundred book reviews, two novels, the last being The House of Blood, which was published in 2007.

Read Shanghai Ed

Jerry Budinski is a retired engineer now free to engage in his dream pastime, writing fiction. His short stories have been published in Eclectica, Quantum Muse, Paumanok Review, Writers’ Post Journal, and many other publications. Two works were nominated for Story South’s best on- line stories of 2005. Inspirations may come from history, travel, weird science or just things that warp out from the daily news. He lives high on a hill in Western New York with his wife of forty years, in the home of a West Highland Terrier named Hildy.

Read The World's Greatest

Steven Whitfield was born in Anderson, South Carolina. His fascination with horror began at a drive-in movie when he was a small child, sitting between his parents, in the front seat of a 1963 Buick. Alfred Hitchcock’s film “The Birds” filled him with a terror as big as the screen itself. Since then he's read many books, seen many movies, and written quite a few stories.

Read The Empty Chair

Stephanie L. Morrell was born and raised in Southern New Jersey. Writing has always been her greatest passion in life and she is happy to have completed her first book, Notes From a Vampire. The horror genre greatly appeals to Stephanie whether it’s in films, novels, or short stories, and she was fortunate enough to have played Lucy in a theater production of Dracula.

Morrell is the author of the following short stories: No More Brains for Jack (Another Realm Magazine, December 2009), Sasha'a Red Tea (The Random Eye Anthology,2010) and don't miss the January issue of Death Head Grin Magazine with Morrell's story, Under the Floorboards.

Read Catie Benson’s Infection

ISSUE #9 - FEATURED AUTHOR PROFILE

P.S. Gifford was born on April 28, 1965 in Birmingham, England. He discovered at a remarkably early age that he was completely fascinated with the written word. By the age of nine he was already a voracious reader and had begun to write.

Paul is the author of 3 excellent collections of short stories. Your dark fiction bookshelf is not complete without: The Curious Accounts of the Imaginary friend, The Further Accounts of the Imaginary Friend and for younger readers, Dr Offig's Lessons from the Dark Side. Author Kimberly Raiser states "Brilliant, witty, spooky & spilling over with Gifford-s best work yet. This is a collection that will keep you coming back for more!"

View our P.S. Gifford Author Profile here.

ISSUE 9 - SHORT STORIES

FEATURED SHORT STORIES - ISSUE #9

P.S. Gifford is completely fascinated with two things; the darker side of life and the written word. By the tender age of nine he had combined these two passions and was devouring several horror books a week and, perhaps more significantly, started to write. In the early 1980s he relocated from his native England to California. Since then he has acquired dozens of professional writing credits including three books. His latest is the short story collection: The Further Accounts of the Imaginary Friend. For more details visit www.psgifford.com

Read The Fly

S.P. Miskowski writes the horror blog Shock Room, and is currently revising her first horror novel and preparing to write a second. Identity Theory, Fine Madness, Other Voices, and The Stranger have published her short fiction. Her recent story collection Red Poppies: Tales of Envy and Revenge is available from booksellers online (including Powell's, Amazon, and Poisoned Pen), and has been described by readers as "creepy, suspenseful" and "gleefully nasty entertainment."

Read Sweat Equity

Steven Michael Sarber is a 33 year-old husband and father of two who hails from the St. Louis area. Sarber's favorite authors are: Dean Koontz, Stephen King, James Patterson and, lately, Jeffery Deaver and his greatest writing influences are Koontz, King, Straub, and James Patterson.

Read The Dental-Phobe

Dave Teeuwen is a writer and researcher living in Mt. Albert, Ontario, Canada. His two main passions are the work of William Burroughs and horror stories. He is currently at work on a couple of horror novels and a non-fiction work concerning William Burroughs in the 1960’s.

Read New Haven Case

A.M.Crenshaw is a nonviolence activist and writer from Reading, PA. His poetry can be found in the Conversation Poetry and AGON literary magazines. He is a regular contributor to and editor for the "Swords into Plowshares" newsletter. In July, The Short Story Library featured his micro-horror story, Dental Records. "The Death of Dr Maghee" is his first published Weird Western.

Read The Death of Dr. Maghee

Bradd Quinn was born and lives in Rochester, NY. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology where he earned a degree in Fine Art Illustration, and a Masters degree in Print Publishing. He's always had the creative arts in his blood, at least that's what his mother always told him...and his therapist. From being absolutely certain he wanted to be a comic strip artist at age 11 (despite his work’s very obvious similarity to Garfield), to political cartoons at 13, to comic books and graphic novels throughout high school, to turntablism and music production, Bradd just always knew he wanted to create.

Read Mother - A Zombie Tragedy

S.S. Hampton Sr. is from the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and is a divorced grandfather to 11 grandchildren (one more on the way). He is a published photographer, photojournalist, fiction writer, and is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His stories have appeared in Ruthie’s Club, Lucrezia Magazine, Megaera, River Walk Journal, The Harrow, and Dark Fire, among others. He currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Read The Mistress of the Fourth Seal

Philip Roberts lives in Nashua, New Hampshire and holds a degree in Creative Writing with a minor in Film from the University of Kansas. As a beginner in the publishing world, he’s a member of the Horror Writer’s Association, and has had numerous short stories published in a variety of publications, such as the Beneath the Surface anthology, Byzarium webzine, and The Tabard Inn. More information on his works can be found at www.philipmroberts.com.

Read Rewards

NEW FEATURE - eNOVELLA BY DAN OMEGA

“What if your life—and death—hung on the meaning of a nightmare?”

Young Boman, barely clinging to life at the end of his days, is captured within the loop of a vivid, recurring dream—inside every detail of it—for the last time. He struggles, fighting to survive within the dream that is now mutating from the inside-out, a power inside it bent on slaughtering him. His life—and death—hang on the meaning of this dream-become-a-nightmare. A family friend enters the middle of his own waking nightmare that unites the carnal to the unseen, opening a doorway that cannot be shut by any human being. The night-terror is born, powerful, screaming and bloodied, into the human dimension . . . and right into Boman’s own neighbourhood before he is prepared to face it.

Read Chapter 3 (Section 1 and 2) of Dan Omega's Phantasmagoria: Gall and Wormwood, in our eNovella Section here.

ISSUE #8 - FEATURED ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

ISSUE #8 FEATURED ARTIST - NICK ROSE

Nick Rose is a traditional illustrator who is renowned for his pictorial storytelling, and influence he acquired by studying the work and teachings of Howard Pyle, the father of American illustrations as taught to him by Master Daniel Horne.

Not only has he trained under a Master, he also trained under Todd Lockwood, one of the all time greats in the fantasy field.

Though the years, Mr. Rose has created 100’s of book and magazine covers as well as interior illustrations. He also has an impressive list of commercial clients, including Sea World, the Carolina Panthers, the Williamsburg VA civil war museum, and Quay Publishing in London England to name a very few.

He now focuses on his first love, publishing. He mainly works in the Horror and Dark Fantasy Genre. He is expanding his career to the movie industry, doing everything from concept sketches to movie posters.

Some of the more notable publishers he has worked for are Dragon Magazine, Evil Nerd Empire, Hero Games Inc, 100 Kingdom games, Whiskey Creek Press (The Torrid Romance division, yes, he even did erotic romance covers) and many, many more.

Check our 8 new images created by Nick Rose in our ART SECTION

ISSUE #8 - FEATURED AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT

ISSUE #8 FEATURED AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT - KELLEY ARMSTRONG

Kelley Armstrong is the author of the NYT-bestselling "Women of the Otherworld" paranormal suspense series and "Darkest Powers" young adult urban fantasy trilogy, as well as the Nadia Stafford crime series. She grew up in Southwestern Ontario, Canada where she still lives with her family. She is a former computer programmer, who’s escaped the corporate cubicle and hopes never to return.

Read our Featured Author Spotlight.

ISSUE #8 - SHORT STORIES AND POETRY

FEATURED SHORT STORIES - ISSUE #8

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Paul Nemeth's short story "Tom Skinner" is featured in the anthology Don't Turn The Lights On, and his debut novel Cataclysm Children will be released in November 2009. A musician by trade, he maintains a busy schedule teaching bass and guitar in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he resides with his wife and son.

Read THEY COME HERE TO DIE

Ken Goldman is an American writer, Horror Writers Association member, and former teacher of English and Film Studies with homes in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania and the South Jersey shore. He has published stories in over 500 publications and his book of short stories “You Had Me At ARRGH!!” (Sam’s Dot Publishing) remains an all time top ten best seller at The Genre Mall where it can also be purchased.

Read SMOKE AND MIRRORS

John J. Barnes is a Florida native currently traveling the world in the Air Force. He's been to the Middle East as well as Korea and will eventually end up in Europe, but no matter where he travels to, reading and writing is always his best company. In addition to writing short stories he is currently at work on a novel. John has been published at Suspense Magazine and recieved an honorable mention in Allegory e-zine.

Read STRICKEN

Nate Burleigh is new to the writing scene. He lives with his wife and three children in Vancouver, WA. By day, he works as a Long Term Disability Analyst. By night, the inner horror writer in him rears its ugly head. Nate has won several online community writing contests and just published his first short horror story “Quilty as Charged” in the September 2009 issue of SNM Horror Magazine. This will be his second published short story. He also just finished his debut novel, Sustenance, which is in its final editing stages. Telling stories is Nate’s passion. Getting them out there for the masses to devour is his dream. Readers may contact him by email at medicnate@comcast.net.

Read BLOOD STONES

Ben Cromwell is a returned peace corps volunteer currently living and writing in Salt Lake City. He has been published in Adagio Verse Quarterly, and is currently enrolled in a masters program at the University of Utah where he studies environmental writing. His interest in zombies and horror in general dates from his experience with a college roommate. Ben was nearly killed when he woke his friend from a dream about the living dead. The intense experience piqued his interest and he's been a fan ever since.

Read PEACEMAKER

Jake Brewer is a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an avid reader who enjoys all genres and many authors.

Read THE CROSSING

Donna Burgess is a Realtor who enjoys surfing and all facets of art, from painting to photography. She has been married for eighteen years and has two children. She is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing, in the hope of leaving the world of real estate behind to focus on writing and teaching.

Read BLACK WATER

FEATURED POETRY - ISSUE #8

Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. His brand new poetry chapbook with pictures From Which Place the Morning Rises and his new photo version of The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom are available at: http://stores.lulu.com/promomanusa. Michael is also editor/publisher of four poetry sites, all open for submission, which can be found at his website: http://poetryman.mysite.com/.

Horror Bound is pleased to present a collection of Michael's poems that portray the true horror of aging. Read here .

Stephen D. Nadaud II has been an author and poet for almost ten years. Long hours spent pushing a pen and practicing the art of creative writing have resulted in his first published work, a poem called "Words of the Enemy."

Read Stephen's latest poetry offering entitled Shades.

The works of Susurrus Din/Ryan Coffman owes much to the Masters of the Macabre, Gothic Horror, and World Myth/Folklore. He draws heavily from themes of judgment, vengeance, and the otherworldly. A tome of his photography and poetry, Mendicant of the Hidden, Votary of the Sepulcher has been recently unleashed.

Read Alchemical Resurrection of the Dead

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