Well, this should be interesting. Rampant disease, dystopian controls, rioting maniacs, exploding towns, murder hornets, near-miss asteroids, demon seeds… so much to choose from for the horror writer this year.

The short story call for Underdog Anthology 12 will begin in mid August and will run until the end of September. Stories will be paid, of course, we don’t expect you to work for free. As always, stories don’t have to be horrifying, they just have to be Halloween.

The lockdown continues in the UK so Underdog Anthologies are all still priced at 99 cents (US) or equivalent in your country. All single-author collections and novels are currently fixed at $2.99 so you’re not risking much by trying one – and every one of them is well worth that price.

Wandra Nomad’s ‘Tales of a Wanderer’ is nearing completion, Gastradamus’s book is up next and Mark Ellott has another in the works. Even with all the trials and tribulations of this fiery vindaloo anus of a year, we might have been slowed but we have not been stopped.

If you have a story for Halloween, write it down. You have just under two months to get it submission-ready.

Here we go…