“Stories by some of the most talented and interesting writers working in weird fiction today.”
— S.P. Miskowski, author of The Worst is Yet to Come
2026 Subscription:
> 4 issues for $60 via PayPal
2023-2025 Bundle:
> All 12 issues for $90 via PayPal
Current Issue
#12 — Vol. 3, Issue 4 (Winter 2025)
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“Gray Men, White Lightning” by Keith Roysdon
“The Leech Collector” by L.T. Williams
“Flashlight Tag” by Robert Helfst
“Door to Damnation” by Lara Messersmith-Glavin
“Repeater” by Charles Wilkinson
“Dead Wood” by Corey Farrenkopf
“The Pool” by Jeremy Schliewe
“A Body is Horror” by Íde Hennessy
“The Contemplatives” by Timothy Granville
Submission Guidelines
Currently CLOSED to submissions. (Reopening June 2026.)
Chthonic Matter is a quarterly offering of tales from the darkside. Its contents range in tone from the quiet horror of Shirley Jackson to the bleak stylings of Thomas Ligotti — and everything in between. Authors are asked to submit their tales (between 2K and 5K words) via the email provided below and allow up to two months for a response. (Send only one story. No reprints. Simultaneous submissions welcome.)
> Payment: $10 per 1K words, and one contributor copy.
> Submit: chthonicmatter.editor@gmail.com
FYI: Stories selected during the above reading period will be published in one of the four issues expected to appear in 2027.
Chthonic Matter Newsletter: In lieu of social media, please consider subscribing to the quarterly newsletter.
Past Issues
#11— Vol. 3, Issue 3 (Fall 2025)
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“Houses Without People: A Nightmare In Four Parts” by Gordon Brown
“In Every Heart, a Hydra” by Dexter McLeod
“The Tumulus” by Joe Koch
“Nellie Longarms” by Jade Jiao
“The Truth of Clouds” by Charles Wilkinson
“Manhole” by Jon Carroll Thomas
“The Caravan” by Maureen O’Leary
“A Paper Game Teacher” by Samuel M. Moss
“The Scent of Lightning” by Gregory Lawrence
#10 — Vol. 3, Issue 2 (Summer 2025)
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“And You Will Live Forever in Horror” — Tim Waggoner
“Cicada Summer” — Bert SG
“Storm of the Century” — L.S. Johnson
“Chaoskampf” — Sam Richard
“The General Cure” — Nicholas Zielinski
“Root and Stem” — Caleb Weinhardt
“Another Way” — Joshua Rex
“The Equation” — LC von Hessen
“Tonight I Will Split His Heart With a Knife” — Perry Ruhland
#9 — Vol. 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2025)
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“Coffeehouse Puppets” — Max Zoske
“The Train People” — Tara Laskowski
“You Had Me At Hello” — Peter O’Keefe
“Sang de La Lune Aigre” — Jonathan Louis Duckworth
“Night Mirage” — Joshua Chaplinsky
“The Little Creature” — Charles Wilkinson
“Moving House” — Joseph Anderson
“Pacifica” — Pamela M. Durgin
“The Success of Dover’s Glen: A Study in Four People” — Erik McHatton
#8 — Vol. 2, Issue 4 (Winter 2024)
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“Sticky” — M. Stern
“Basement Friend” — Lene MacLeod
“A Folded Letter” — Neil Williamson
“Dr. Fuller’s Last Lecture” — Logan McConnell
“Wild Places” — Tim Jeffreys
“Mixed Signals” — Michael McKeown Bondhus
“Corpse Medicine” — Kathryn Reilly
“Undone” — Warren Benedetto
#7 — Vol. 2, Issue 3 (Fall 2024)
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“The Violent Things Inside Me” — Gordon Brown
“Color Theory” — Res Bratton
“Suicide Pit” — Sam Dawson
“Holes” — AE Stueve
“Struggle As You Will To Rise” — Luciano Marano
“Leviathan” — Bob Beagrie
“Play Voidal For Me” — Eygló Karlsdóttir and Ashley Stokes
“We All Go Down Together” — Jacob Steven Mohr
#6 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 (Summer 2024)
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“Corvid Summer” — Tom Johnstone
“Exit Wound” — Phoebe Murphy
“Rat Suit King” — Patrick Barb
“Take This Body” — M.C. St. John
“Dr. Blackwood’s Midnight Ghost Show” — Mathew L. Reyes
“What Doesn’t Kill Me” — Patrick Samuel
“Dear Mr. Sycamore” — Maureen O’Leary
“Reading Sloane” — Jason A. Wyckoff
#5 — Vol. 2, Issue 1 (Spring 2024)
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“Ferus Navigatio” — Kevin Novalina
“She Caught His Eye” — Lynn Graznak
“The Bridge” — Joshua Rex
“Davidson’s Son” — Charles Wilkinson
“The Boy in the Closet” — Douglas Ford
“Tread” — Dan Howarth
“The Alien Inside” — Julia Rust
“The Architect of Láskacech” — Arthur Staaz
#4 — Vol. 1, Issue 4 (Winter 2023)
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“Garbage Juice” — Harris Kauffman
“Where the Monsters Are Lonely” — David Surface
“The Book of Brats” — Christi Nogle
“The Sorrow of Our Interminable Stasis” — Carson Winter
“A Damnable Life” — C.W. Stevenson
“Wax Caesar Displaying His 23 Wounds to the Crowd” — Tim Major
“A True History of Drowned Heralds” — R.L. Summerling
“A Righteous Man” — Zachary Rosenberg
#3 — Vol. 1, Issue 3 (Fall 2023)
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“You Won’t Remember This” — Jacob Steven Mohr
“The Sun in the Shadows” — M.S. Swift
“Carapace” — Chris & Rebecca McGuinness
“Worn Out” — Travis Mushanski
“The Man Upstairs” — Shawn Phelps
“Getting Out” — Timothy Granville
“Angels in Amber” — Erica Ruppert
“Someday, I Will Find It” — William Grabowski
#2 — Vol. 1, Issue 2 (Summer 2023)
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“A Few Thoughts From D. Statten Polk” — Jason A. Wyckoff
“Perdition’s Grist” — Jonathan Louis Duckworth
“What Gazes Back” — Gail Pinto
“The Sweetest” — Santiago Eximeno
“What Happens To Everyone Eventually” — Gordon Brown
“Ten Green Bottles” — Stephen McQuiggan
“The Madonna of Bone” — K. Wallace King
“The Wolf in the Witch’s House” — Patrick Barb
#1 — Vol. 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2023)
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“Love Is A Ghost You See With Your Heart” — Luciano Marano
“The Dead Radio Broadcasts” — Charles Wilkinson
“Song of a Crow” — Eygló Karlsdóttir
“Amusement” — Perry Ruhland
“The Low Thing” — Eli Wennstrom
“Somewhere Warm On A Golden Beach” — Kevin Brown
“Vasilisa Who Ran” — Patricia Lillie
“A Love So Deep” — Christian Riley
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