Open Calls
📚 Open Calls for Anthology Submissions 2025/2026
Baynam Books Press is calling all horror authors who aren't afraid to bleed on the page. If you’re twisted, brilliant, and ready to write for the dark side, we want your stories. Each anthology is professionally produced, designed, and distributed — contributors receive digital copies of the finished book (EPUB & PDF) as payment.
Submit your stories via the relevant Google Form linked for each anthology. Simultaneous submissions welcome. AI-generated work is not.
🪓 Meat Market: Tales of the Butcher’s Block
Theme: Gore, cannibalism, and visceral slaughterhouses. Flesh is currency.
Genre: Splatterpunk / Body Horror
Word Count: 3,000–6,000
Deadline: 30th Nov 2025
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🧬 Body Hackers Anonymous
Theme: Extreme biotech-body horror — black market mods, surgical cults, grotesque upgrades, or just simple old slashers.
Genre: Cyber Horror / Extreme Horror
Word Count: 2,500–6,000
Deadline: 31st Oct 2025
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🔪 Inside the Mind of a Monster
Theme: Every story must be told from the killer's POV — no victims, no remorse. Just pure monstrous intent.
Genre: Psychological Horror / True Crime Fiction
Word Count: 2,000–5,000
Deadline: 30th Jan 2026
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👁️🗨️ Room 333
Theme: One haunted hotel room, infinite timelines and realities. All stories must center around Room 333.
Genre: Supernatural / Temporal Horror
Word Count: 2,500–6,000
Deadline: Ongoing - 10 Stories per book
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🧟 We Bury the Dead Alive
Theme: Stories of resurrection, accidental burial, conscious decomposition — trapped in your own rotting body.
Genre: Zombie Horror / Existential Terror
Word Count: 2,500–5,500
Deadline: 28th Feb 2026
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🎥 Creature Feature: Redux
Theme: B-movie monsters reimagined — deadlier, smarter, meaner, and ready for their comeback.
Genre: Creature Horror / Satirical Horror
Word Count: 3,000–6,000
Deadline: 31st March 2026
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⚖️ The Executioner’s Ledger
Theme: Horror in gallows, witch trials, and torture chambers. Historical accuracy meets horror fiction.
Genre: Historical Horror / Torture Horror
Word Count: 3,000–6,000
Deadline: 23rd April 2026
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📡 Static in the Sky
Theme: Cosmic horror meets sci-fi. Think Lovecraft in orbit, madness through tech, dread through stars.
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror / Cosmic Dread
Word Count: 3,000–6,000
Deadline: 5th May 2026
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🤡 Kill ‘Em with Laughter
Theme: Ridiculous horror — the killers are over-the-top, the victims are mostly asking for it, and the violence is somehow… hilarious.
Genre: Horror-Comedy / Extreme Satire
Word Count: 3,000–5,500
Deadline: Ongoing - 10 Stories per book
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☠️ Dumb Ways to Die (and Undie Again)
Theme: Characters die in idiotic, absurd, and avoidable ways — and sometimes return... worse.
Genre: Comedy Horror / Splatterpunk
Word Count: 2,500–5,000
Deadline: 30th July 2026
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🧹 Witch, Please!
Theme: Petty, chaotic witches using magic for the dumbest revenge: stolen parking spots, nosy neighbors, tacky home decor, etc.
Genre: Magical Horror / Comedy
Word Count: 2,500–5,500
Deadline: 31st Oct 2025
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⚓ Terror on the High Seas
Theme: Extreme pirate horror — sea monsters, ghost ships, butcher buccaneers, and bloody voyages.
Genre: Nautical Horror / Splatterpunk
Word Count: 3,000–6,000
Deadline: 8th August 2026
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🤖 FUBAR: Technology Gone Bad
Theme: When tech turns on humanity. Rogue AI, cursed apps, malfunctioning implants, killer robots.
Genre: Tech Horror / Cyber Dread
Word Count: 2,500–6,000
Deadline: 22nd August 2025
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🖤 My Dead Valentine
Theme: Undying love — and we do mean undying.
Description: Romance rots. These tales explore twisted devotion, cursed lovers, ghost brides, necromantic exes, and love that doesn’t know when to quit. The heart wants what it wants. Even after death.
Genre: Gothic / Paranormal / Tragic Horror
Word Count: 3,000–6,000
Deadline: 1st Jan 2026
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👶 Hell Nursery Rhymes
Theme: Childhood isn’t always innocent.
Description: Monsters under the bed? Try monsters in the crib. These horror stories twist childhood songs, bedtime stories, and creepy kids into something far more sinister. Think teething demons and lullabies that summon the dead.
Genre: Folklore Horror / Surreal / Children-Gone-Wrong
Word Count: 2,500–5,000
Deadline: Ongoing - 10 Stories per book
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🧼 Clean Cuts: Tales from the Morgue Beautician
Theme: Final touches for the not-so-final rest.
Description: What do the dead say to those who dress them? Set in mortuaries, prep rooms, and funeral homes — these stories focus on embalmers, body artists, and the quiet horrors of post-mortem intimacy.
Genre: Quiet Horror / Psychological / Death Culture
Word Count: 2,500–5,500
Deadline: Ongoing - 10 Stories per book
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📞 You’ve Reached the Afterlife Hotline
Theme: Messages that shouldn’t exist.
Description: Sometimes the dead have something to say. These tales feature phones that ring after death, haunted voicemails, cursed call centers, or psychic tech that blurs the line between life and limbo.
Genre: Supernatural / Tech Horror / Twilight Zone-style
Word Count: 3,000–6,000
Deadline: Ongoing - 10 Stories per book
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🛸 The Abduction Files
Theme: Not your average UFO encounter.
Description: Alien horror for the deranged — from body-harvesting abductions to rural cults worshipping star-beasts. These are close encounters of the grotesque kind.
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror / Cosmic / Abduction Horror
Word Count: 3,000–6,000
Deadline: Ongoing - 10 Stories per book
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⛺ Camp Cannibal
Theme: Pack your bags... and seasoning.
Description: Summer camp goes savage in these tales of feral children, deranged counselors, and midnight snacks that bite back. S'mores? No. Screams.
Genre: Slasher / Cannibal Horror / Satirical
Word Count: 3,000–6,000
Deadline: 01st Mar 2026
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🩸 Splatology
Theme: Pure, unfiltered splatterpunk.
Description: This anthology is for the unhinged. The grotesque. The beautifully excessive. We want stories soaked in blood, guts, and mayhem — visceral, disturbing, and wildly creative. If your story doesn’t push the limits, it doesn’t belong here. Psychological damage, body horror, depravity, absurdity — let’s have it all.
But read this carefully:
Any homophobia, racism, transphobia, ableism, or hate of any kind that isn’t explicitly integral to the plot will be rejected outright. We’re not here for shock value at someone else’s expense. If you're not sure, rewrite it.
Genre: Extreme Horror / Splatterpunk
Word Count: 3,000–6,500
Deadline: Ongoing - 10 Stories per book.
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✍️ Submission Guidelines (All Anthologies):
- Must be original, unpublished, and human-written (no AI).
- Simultaneous submissions are allowed; notify us if accepted elsewhere.
- Strong narratives, compelling characters, and bold voices encouraged.
- Light edits will be made as needed, but we don’t rewrite.
- Submit your best.
- Contributors will receive digital copies of the anthology in all major formats.
📩 Questions or Queries?
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