Grotesque Fiction

cupofjoe · May 21, 2008

I have story that I am looking for places to submit. While it is not hyper-gory (in fact, I consider it very black humor) though it IS a graphic telling of a man who makes a career out of deep-frying his own body and then eating it.

The story is just under 5,000 words.

What publications are there that are known to be open to this sort of work?

Thanks,
Cupofjoe

Kalyke · May 21, 2008

Gosh. I read a story by someone named "Poppy" Something about 2 Dhamer style cannibal/serial Killers who fell into homosexual lust and ate each other... Maybe you could look up that writer and find who published her. Her first name was Poppy. It was a very bizarre little book.

nevada · May 21, 2008

Poppy Z. Brite? is that her?

Kalyke · May 21, 2008

Gah! I don't know. I gave the book to a weird guy I knew, never saw it again.

Haggis · May 21, 2008

Use Her Name said:
Gosh. I read a story by someone named "Poppy" Something about 2 Dhamer style cannibal/serial Killers who fell into homosexual lust and ate each other... Maybe you could look up that writer and find who published her. Her first name was Poppy. It was a very bizarre little book.

nevada said:
Poppy Z. Brite? is that her?

That's what I'm thinking too.

Cup, why not head over to Duotrope.com and look through their horror zine listings? Chances are you'll find a fit there.

And stop over and visit us in the horror forum. We love fried body parts there.

heatheringemar · May 21, 2008

Yep. Try some horror zines.

Dale Emery · May 22, 2008

Cemetery Dance?

Dark Discoveries?

Apex Digest? (I'm surrently reading a long serialized story in Apex about a secret government project to clone famous serial killers... to... uh... prevent that kind of thing from happening again. Yeah, that's it, to prevent it... Anyway, the story is quite graphic.)

Dale

Mike Coombes · May 24, 2008

IF the story is well written, and if the point of the story is about something more than shock value, I'd be interested in taking a look - http://www.theoddvillepress.com

Grotesque Fiction

cupofjoe

Kalyke

nevada

Kalyke

Haggis

Evil, undead Chihuahua

heatheringemar

lurking behind that corner..

Dale Emery

is way off topic

Mike Coombes

Guru