Submission Period Begins on May 1st. New Halloween Issue!

We are opening to submissions on May 1st through the end of July and it is my sincere hope to offer you fast response times.  Please take a moment to reacquaint yourself with our Submission Guidelines.

I also hope that we will have the privilege of publishing your story, but please follow the guidelines.  If we receive a submission that does not meet the guidelines then we will be forced to delete it unread.

Why do we do this?  Because each submission period brings approximately 400-500 submissions, and in an effort to offer good response times we must focus on those submissions that meet the guidelines over those that do not.

Everyone on our small part-time staff are writers and we feel your pain and appreciate your creative effort.

SPECIAL SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITY

Kevin Lucia, one of Shroud's talented authors and editors, will be guest editing Shroud's Autumn Issue in 2010.  He has selected, appropriately, a Halloween Theme.

Kevin is looking for new, exciting and unique stories that cleverly integrate or honor this holiday.  The same Shroud submission guidelines apply, and we will be selecting stories from this submission period.  HOWEVER, the Halloween Issue submissions should be noted as a "Halloween Submission" and sent as an .rtf attachment to Kevin Lucia directly.

During this period, we will allow you to send a regular submission to Tim, as well as one Halloween submission to Kevin, if you so desire.

We look forward to your words.  Thank you, as always, for supporting Shroud!

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The Terror at Miskatonic Falls

Free Shroud Swag Sunday!

All day today, receive a free fabric book bag with any order from the Shroud site. These make perfect shopping bags as well, and with the distinctive haunted house logo, you'll be sure to attract a few stares as you hand it to the grocery store bagger.

Tailor-made* to fit two six-packs of Schlitz Bull Ice Malt Liquor, a box of frozen White Castle cheeseburgers, and four bags of Doritos.  I like Taco Flavor, how about you?

But seriously, buy anything and get a FREE tote-bag.  Plus, I'll ship all in-stock items priority mail on Monday Morning.  Out-of-stock items will ship as soon as they become in-stock.  Am I making myself clear?  Just do the math.

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Shroud Publishing Brings on Web Marketing Intern

Shroud Publishing is pleased to announce that we have brought on Kenton Kotsiris as an intern.  Kenton is currently working on his MA in English in the United Kingdom.

Kenton's duties at Shroud will be to expand our Web presence and build our online audience.  In addition, he will be employed to promote and publicize our talented group of authors.

We sincerely look forward to working with him.  You can contact Kenton here.

Kenton's Bio

Kenton Kotsiris has always been a lover of horror fiction. Being an avid reader, he has experienced many nights sleeping with the lights on. With his educational endeavors coming to an end, he is now focusing on his own writing. You can read all his random rants and horror interest at KentonKotsiris.com. He graduated from UCLA with a degree in English Literature, and is currently working on his MA in the UK. Lastly, he is extremely excited to be a new member of the Shroud Magazine team!

Getting Ready for HIRAM GRANGE AND THE DIGITAL EUCHARIST!

From its global headquarters in Boston, the mysterious Occlusionist Movement is preparing to control the world with its Digital Eucharist, while in the serpentine bowels of the city an ancient demon is unleashed, eager for revenge against the man who imprisoned it years ago--Hiram Grange!


On the heels of the release of Hiram Grange & the Twelve Little Hitlers, Rob Davies' intelligent and uproarious novella, Hiram Grange & the Digital Eucharist, has challenged the boundaries of adventure horror fiction. Eucharist is the third installment in the Scandalous Misadventures of Hiram Grange series.


About Rob Davies:

ROBERT DAVIES writes stories about lobster girls and laser beams. Mimetic fiction is for wimps. Raised on a steady diet of weird paperbacks, Infocom games, and comic books, Rob has always wanted to be a writer (Well, actually, he first wanted to be a dinosaur, but that didn’t work out so well). When not writing, Rob likes to travel around the world, searching for the ideal pint and the perfect bookstore. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife Sara and two cats, Lilith and Tiamat. His favorite Horseman is Pestilence.

Visit Rob online at www.robertedavies.com.
Cover Art and illustrations by Malcolm McClinton
Layout, design, copyediting, and woodcut embellishments by Danny Evarts

What are People Saying?

"Join Hiram Grange as he negotiates with a little voodoo help an unfamiliar and scary Boston. Along the way he struggles with Black Magic rituals, creatures summoned from the Abyss, his own inner
demons, and the mysterious enslaving power of the Digital Eucharist. At stake: Saving the world from the  Occlusionist Movement. The writing is consistently authentic and compelling. An absolute  must read for fans of fast-paced, action-packed occult thrillers."

--Gene O'Neill, Stoker-winning author  of JADE and DEATHFLASH


"The Digital Eucharist is a trip in every sense of the word...dark, funny, humanistic, and surreal. While others are producing stories and characters in a familiar cookie-cutter format, the minds behind Hiram Grange are blazing a trail as unique and wonderful as the world they are working within. Hiram Grange is Absinthe for the fastidious horror reader." 

-- Michael Knost, Bram Stoker Award-winner of WRITERS WORKSHOP OF HORROR

"Vivid, engaging, and darkly humorous – Hiram Grange and the Digital Eucharist is another spectacular entry in the Hiram Grange series that you can't afford to miss.

-- Jason M. Tucker – Author of MEAT CITY & OTHER STORIES

Shroud Sunday! Free Book Bag with ANY order!

All day today, receive a free fabric book bag with any order from the Shroud site. These make perfect shopping bags as well, and with the distinctive haunted house logo, you'll be sure to attract a few stares as you hand it to the grocery store bagger.

Tailor-made* to fit two six-packs of Schlitz Bull Ice Malt Liquor, a box of frozen White Castle cheeseburgers, and four bags of Doritos.  I like Taco Flavor, how about you?

But seriously, buy anything and get a FREE tote-bag.  Plus, I'll ship all in-stock items priority mail on Monday Morning.  Out-of-stock items will ship as soon as they become in-stock.  Am I making myself clear?  Just do the math.

Order here today!

*This is an outright lie.  This is a standard-sized fabric bag, probably churned out in crappy overseas factory somewhere by eight-year-old kids chained to glue guns or whatever.  But it's free.

Thank you!

I just want to thank you all for sticking with Shroud over the past two years. Your support, friendship, and patronage have meant a lot to me. While the state of the economy has definitely impacted Shroud's sales, we continue to adapt and move forward in order to continue to provide quality literary entertainment and a home for your writing.

The ups and downs of the publishing business have been a real education for me. I sincerely believe that the biggest thing that I've learned (so far) is that there lies a close and caring community within our genre. I really, really enjoy that sense of community.

I've also learned that people are always there to help out if you need it. People like Danny Evarts, Mark Wholley, Kevin Lucia, Greg Hall, Scott McCoy, Sheldon S. Higdon, Norman Rubenstein, Ben Eads, Natalie Sin, Nate Lambert, Brian Hardin, Robert Canipe, The Hiram Five and Malcolm McClinton -- hell--all of you guys! You've ALL helped so much in promoting and supporting Shroud and I quite sincerely love you for it.

Shroud Underground Members please log into the Message Board for a little thank you gift!

An Update

Wow, March blew by, didn't it? We have one month until we are open for submissions again and we are in the process of rereading the last handful that still remain in our "second read list." Danny has done at tremendous job of getting "Hiram Grange and the Digital Eucharist" ready for review (want a .pdf ARC?).

Issue 8 is due out any day now, and will feature a cover by Danny Evarts himself. I'll see if I can dig up a cover sample for you!