Tales to Terrify

@talestoterrify.bsky.social

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An award-winning weekly horror fiction podcast. 🗓️Now open to horror subs <10k. 🧟Reprints allowed. 🧕👩🏾👨🏽‍🦽‍➡️🏳️‍🌈Diverse voices encouraged. www.talestoterrify.com #HorrorCommunity

A screencap of the twins from "The Shining" in the hallway holding hands. Text reads: "COME PLAY WITH US. We're looking for volunteer first readers (slushers). Underrepresented voices strongly encouraged to apply. Must commit to reading at least 10 short stories a week. Go to Tales to Terrify dot com slash volunteer slash hashtag read to apply."
Cover of Vampire Beach Babe's 2000 album, "Reckless Summer," with a yellow background and a 1950s car on fire.
The More You Know logo in purple and blue, with a star trailing red and green stardust below it.
Graphic shows the Tales to Terrify logo with an old-fashioned microphone. Text reads: "The 3 most common reasons we reject stories."
A sheet of cryptid stickers. Clockwise from top left: Team Jersey Devil, the Tales to Terrify logo, Team Murder Unicorn, Team Chupacabra, Team Wendigo, and Team Mothman.
Sticker with a Chupacabra. Text reads: "Team Chupacabra. Tales to terrify dot com"
Sticker with a Murder Unicorn. Text reads: "Team Murder Unicorn. Tales to terrify dot com"
Sticker with a Wendigo. Text reads: "Team Wendigo. Tales to terrify dot com"
Sticker with Mothman. Text reads: "Team Mothman. Tales to terrify dot com"
Sticker with a Jersey Devil. Text reads: "Team Jersey Devil. Tales to terrify dot com"
Graphic shows the Tales to Terrify logo next to an old-fashioned microphone. Text reads: "Submissions now open! Scary stories 2k-10k words. 3 cents a word for original stories. Reprints welcome (1 cent/word). Diverse voices encouraged. Submissions guidelines and portal link: https colon slash slash tales to terrify dot come slash submissions"
The green Tales to Terrify logo against a red background. Over the logo is stamped "STOKERCON 2026" Beneath, it reads "We have stickers!"
Sepia-toned graphic showing a boy dressed on old-timey clothes sitting at a school desk and writing on a piece of paper. A thought bubble coming from his head shows the Tales to Terrify logo. Text reads: "Submissions Open June 1, 2026. Horror fiction up to 10k words. 3 cents per word for original stories. 1 cent per word for reprints. Curses and hexes if you try to use AI on us. Tales to terrify dot com slash submissions"
Open call for horror submissions. Text reads: Submissions open June 1, 2026 Horror fiction up to 10k words $0.03 per word for original works $0.01 per word for reprints talestoterrify.com slash submissions
The Bram Stoker Award in all its hefty Gothic glory.
Richard O'Brien as Riff Raff in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975), looking out the front door as he sizes up Brad & Janet (not shown, but IYKYK.)
A bunch of people in silhouette hold up the letters that spell out "TEAM BUILDING." The sun and sea are behind them. Their body language looks excited, but are they really?
Illustration of the Jersey Devil, which is over 6 feet tall and has the face of a horse, the head of a dog (???), ram horns, bat wings, the body of a kangaroo, and a long spiked tail. Because of course New Jersey has to be extra with their monsters. Illustration taken from the Rutgers University Library website.
Graphic shows 9 different skeletons from illuminated Medieval texts.
A still photo from a 1988 WWF Battle Royal. Many wrestlers in the ring all at once, with a large crowd watching.
Graphic shows a very old computer monitor. On the screen is a blurry face with glowing eyes. Text reads: "Sci-fi horror. Flash fiction contest. Closes midnight tonight! Tales to terrify dot com slash flash contest"
Graphic shows an astronaut standing on the edge of a crater on what appears to be a moon-like surface. A giant eyeball rises out of the crater. Text reads: "Sci-Fi horror. Flash fiction contest. Contest closes in 2 days! tales to terrify dot com slash flash contest"
Graphic shows a skull with the top open and wires and gadgets coming out of it. There is electricity arcing over it. Text reads: "Sci-Fi Horror Flash Fiction Contest. Open until Midnight, Feb 28th. Tales to terrify dot com slash flash contest"
Graphic shows a flying saucer shining down a light that's actually a tractor beam pulling up an old-timey pickup truck off the road Background is a mountain and forest. Text reads: "Sci-fi horror flash fiction contest. Open until Midnight, Feb 28th. Tales to terrify dot com slash flash contest"
Graphic shows an android in grey with glowing red eyes. Text reads: "Sci-Fi Horror; flash fiction contest; opens February 1st to 28th; tales to terrify dot com slash flash contest"
Graphic shows an android in grey with glowing red eyes. Text reads: "Sci-Fi Horror; flash fiction contest; opens February 1st to 28th; tales to terrify dot com slash flash contest"
Red-tinted graphic shows a person in a spacesuit floating in a mechanical tunnel with a light behind them. Text reads: "Sci-Fi Horror Flash Fiction Contest. Opens February 1st, 206. TalesToTerrify dot com slash flashcontest."
A still from "The Hunger Games," in which Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket announces, "May the odds be ever in your favor."
Graphic shows an astronaut in a space suit floating in a mechanical tunnel with a light behind them. Text reads: "Sci-Fi Horror Flash Fiction Contest: Opens February 1st, 2026. Tales to terrify dot com slash flash contest"
Graphic has a green background. Photo is of Florence Pugh at the end of "Midsommar," draped in flowers and a flower crown, and smiling. She has a red thought bubble connected to her flower crown with an image of the Tales to Terrify podcast logo in it. Text reads: "COME GET YOUR CROWNS, HORROR QUEENS. From now until Midnight, January 31, Tales to Terrify is open to flash horror fiction from PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED female/female-identified/femme authors. PAY = $0.02/WORD. Deets & subs: tinyurl.com/WiHM2026"
Graphic showing a hunched-over zombie with a gold top hat and grey party blower. Text reads, "Happy New Year From Tales to Terrify!"