Detours: Peculiar Places of West Virginia
Submission Guidelines
Thank you for your interest in Detours. This anthology will be published through Woodland Press, publishers of the Legends of the Mountain State series, the Stoker award-winning Writers Workshop of Horror, and my anthology Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales of Appalchia. I am looking for stories that take place in West Virginia, at a real location with a strange or unusual history. It can be haunted, weird, or unusual. The place cannot be incidental to the story, but must be a part of the plot, as if it were another character in the story. You can find some ideas
for places here: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/location/wv/all. But there are other places as well; nothing beats good, old-fashioned research.
Here are the particulars:
- Short stories up to 2500 words.
- The setting must be a real place in West Virginia, and the history of the location must also be real. No UFO lands in Parkersburg stories, unless people in Parkersburg actually saw a UFO.
- Although this is not a purely horror anthology, stories with spooky elements to them are encouraged. But they shouldn’t be graphic in their descriptions.
- Although this anthology is targeted to adults, stories should not contain explicit language or content.
- None of the standard, and considerably unflattering, Appalachian clichés.
- No reprints, including stories which have been posted online.
- No simultaneous submissions.
Brian J. Hatcher, Editor
Detours: Peculiar Places of West Virginia
More information here.
