SNM Horror Magazine

WE ARE NOW LIVE WITH THE JULY 'BANG YA TO DEATH' ISSUE! 

COME MEET SOME OF THE DARKEST HORROR AUTHORS AROUND! 

Welcome to SNM Horror Magazine, a premier online publication featuring the best new talent in horror today. We will showcase 8 new short stories each month and publish on the first day of each month unless posted otherwise. The best part: it’s FREE! Whether it’s to browse around and read the featured authors or even submit a story yourself, we welcome and embrace you into our dark realm of true horror. This space was built by my own grimy appendages from sordid ceremonial grounds and dipped in the blood of disdain and rejection. My ghoulish hands wove together this underworld to feature some great works from authors who haven’t had their imaginative scrolls of horror presented in this inner sanctum from the crypt and into the daylight. We dare to publish what other mags don't, but only in the best of taste!  

Welcome Home to the Mausoleum...where the Dead come to play!

                         Attention Horror Readers:                             

Yes, you heard right, SNM Magazine is FREE to the public! We are here to bring you the best new voices in horror with a new issue every month. Who will be the next generation of Stephen King? You decide. Vote for your favorite author to be featured in our anthology. By previewing their featured stories for free, you can decide which authors you like best. All we ask is that you patron only the ones you like by buying their novel with a link to their website or where to buy their book.  Sign our reader guestbook and subscribe below for our free monthly newsletter. These guys work hard to entertain your brain and need your support and interest!

                          Attention Horror Writers:

Do you have an original short story that you want to see published? All first and second time published and self-published writers are welcome. If we publish it we will  showcase your short story and promote your book or website right underneath your featured works in the hallowed halls of our magazine. If available, we will also post your feature author picture on the site for the month your story is published. We have bi-monthly paying contests and we’re publishing a horror anthology with paid royalties to all contributors featured therein. Submit us your best unpublished fiction! You can sell your book directly through your own channels of distribution and get your name out to the masses! We charge no fees for this or any other services.

                        SNM Horror Mag Promotion:  

And fear not, we have covered all the bases. We are registered with all the major directory venues such as Preditors & Editors, Horrorfind, Horror.net, Crypt Crawl, Duotrope, Ralan, Fiction Factor and more. As well, we are listed on all the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask & Aol. We post weekly bulletins, blogs and blasts on Myspace where our congregation of depraved freaks eagerly consume our raw carnage offerings. Between our many members, readers, writers and guests interviewed, we have mutated like a tumor! We'll generate about 1,200 unique visits to the website each month and word of mouth helps. Make us become the number one source of FREE horror by telling your friends about us. It's free for them too! Thanks for visiting SNM Horror Mag. We hope you find it disturbing!    

                                  Submissions:   

We are open to submissions all year and the floodgates are opened! Horror writers wanted dead or alive for cryptic weavings and grim scribe offerings! If you have an original work of horror between 2000-5000 words, send it here we want to see it!  

Please read our submissions link for guidelines on submitting!

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THE SNM HORROR STAFF,

STEVEN, DAVID & CRYSTAL                  

*REVIEWING FOR SEPTEMBER THEME SUBMISSIONS!

We now have all 8 submissions approved for the August Issue.  The story of the month winners will be posted on August 1st. Thank you to everyone who submitted; we received 32 stories.  September to Dismember is next and we are open for stories. We have 2 approved September submissions with 6 openings. See the submission page for guidelines and September theme. We still have a few openings for the upcoming SNM anthology! The deadline for September and the anthology is August 20th! *The Augusta Bomb Horror Holocaust like armageddon is near!

Greetings SNM Readers                                                                                 

“Nothing quite says 'Bang Ya To Death' like a good ol' climax.” Boy, that alone is enough to shock Doc these days! (Inside joke) Yes it’s the explosive July issue of SNM Horror Mag and this month we are featuring stories with big-shocker-ya-never-saw-it-coming endings in our third publication! There are unexpected twists and turns everywhere you look, dripping with dark, provocative, stimulating horror that will tantalize your taste buds and enhance your already wicked thoughts! This month we have 4 returning SNM authors, 2 other authors from Canada and 2 new female prodigy horror authors from good ol’ Alabama!

We will publish 8 new author stories every month. The magazine is broken down into two page-down formats. While we don't have any movie reviews, trailers, or celebrity interviews, we do focus on the best in horror fiction; a place where readers and writers can go read some great new horror stories by new, upcoming authors! My name is Steven Marshall, chief moderator of the site and here’s what you can expect from this month’s July issue of SNM Horror Magazine.

THIS MONTH’S HORROR FICTION FROM 8 EXPLOSIVE WRITERS:

JASON KEENE, MARI MITCHELL, JESSICA PENOT AND KEN KUPSTIS. JEANNA TENDEAN, ALAN DRAVEN, STEPHEN McCULLY AND JAMES CHEETHAM, plus 3 SHORT STORIES OF MY OWN ON THE SNM LINK.

INTERVIEWS: JAMES CHEETHAM, KEN KUPSTIS & ALAN DRAVEN.

Make sure to sign our Reader’s Guestbook and vote for your favorite horror author to be featured in our new, upcoming premiere anthology in October in 6x9 glossy paperback. Authors featured in it WILL receive royalties. We need your help at making this successful and need your verbal support! These guys work hard to entertain your brain and would like to hear from you. We will keep you posted once a month with our newsletters with updates. Benchmark us into your favorites and subscribe for free right here at the bottom our homepage above Haunted Hangman.

Please tell your friends who like reading or writing horror and make us known to them!  It’s free for them too!

At this time I would like to thank Crystal Adkins for bringing us 3 new exclusive author interviews and book reviews and congratulate her for getting a triple-crown venue. She is truly the SNM Queen and will always have a chamber here. A big thanks also to David Saliba, who I would be lost without in helping me with the edits. I may be the heartbeat but David is the brain and Crystal is the soul. Or, I am Simon, David is Randy and Crystal is Paula and THIS…is American Evil! And thanks especially to you, the avid readers, for making SNM Horror Magazine a hugely successful debut. Horror has a new home and we have only just arrived! The Mausoleum is built…and the Dead are coming. 

ANNOUNCEMENT: We are now hosting in the Hallowed Halls of Horror our SNM Horror Author of the Year Award for the top 12 authors from May 07 to April 08. It will be decided by the Story of the Month and you the readers will get to cast your votes in April 2009. Who will be the SNM Horror Author of the Year and the winner of the $150 award? The winner will be announced in the May 2009 issue. You will have 30 days to vote. This is only the beginning of our deep descent into dark madness and the macabre. We hope that you find the July issue most disturbing as our writers mentally bang ya to death!     

Darkest Wishes,          Grim Fantasies,       Blood & Spittle, Steven Marshall           David Saliba           Crystal Adkins  

Welcome to our dysfunctional Addams Family; a band of three: 

Chief Content Moderator / Steven Marshall *

Senior Chief Editor / David R. Saliba *

Book Reviews & Interviews / Crystal Adkins *

 MIND OVER MATTER / BY JASON KEENE

The Story of the Month Authors are nominated for the award... We will announce the SNM Horror author winner in May 2009. Here are the first 4 of 12 candidates that readers can vote for:

April -- James Cheetham / The Wilting May Flowers

May -- Jeanna Tendean / The Rosebush

June -- Laura Bickle / Symbiosis

JULY -- Jason Keene / Mind Over Matter 

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In addition to the regular October "Halloween Screams" issue, SNM will also be publishing its first glossy 6x9 paperback anthology for the 16 best short stories we feature between May-September. Featured stories of the month will automatically have a place in this. There will be paid royalties offered to the authors along with a contributor's copy. For this, we would have exclusive rights to the story for a year from publication. After that, you may resell it as a reprint for any future endeavors.  Limit one story per author. Word count: 2500-6000. *Must appear in SNM Mag.   More updates and details are now posted and available on our submissions page...

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Purely for your addiction and to see what high score you can get, we have added a Haunted Hangman to the site which is different for each holiday when you play it. The current one is for the 4th of July and the high score is still 1195. See how far you can get, or how much the hanging skeleton can ruthlessly taunt you! The high score is still currently set by Crystal Adkins.

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