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Win £100 for your story...Illustration for Touch, Typing (to be published in Dark Tales: Volume XIV) (c) Candra Hope 2009It's all change with the Dark Tales Short Story Competition... It is now on a monthly basis with the next deadline of the end of July.  First prize is £100, £50 goes to the runner-up and third place will earn you £25. As ever, all other published entrants receive £5.  Even more good news too: subscribers can enter for free.  Subscribe here. Full rules and printable entry form here. Read extracts from four of the winning stories in a previous contest here.

Pay for your entry using the button below and then you can upload your story or email it to us. If preferred, you can enter by post using the printable entry form here.


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Cover for Dark Tales: Volume 14 by Candra HopeSubscribe for four issues and get free entry to the new monthly contest. It's just £15 if you're in the UK:

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Dark Tales back issues available as e-books for less than a pound!To get an idea of what we like to publish here at Dark Tales why not buy an e-book for just 99p? Go here for details of all our available back issues. Please also read our submission guidelines here.




 

Dark Tales: Volume XIII - featuring 12 brand new stories and the stunning artwork of Candra Hope - is out now!Dark Tales: Volume XIII - OUT NOW!

Codes. Codes. Codes. Codes.  I can’t decipher them. I page and page.Why? Why? My chest feels like it is ready for bursting. There is no language in the manual for feeling. 


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Volume 10 is now only £1.99!
Volume 10 is now just 49p from Amazon here.

Dark Tales 10 now only £1.99!

In this edition, discover a moving twist on the child who 'sees dead people' between World Wars, Merlin the magician puts in a refreshingly original appearance, and the arts world serves as the backdrop for two chilling tales. Read also about murderers, ghosts and sci-fi star David Brin.





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Volume 11 is just £3.50 including postage...
Dark Tales Volume 11 - cover art by Caroline O NealIn this witch's brew of dark delights, read two terrifying tales with a botanical twist, a spine-chilling warning against timkering with Mother Nature, discover a debt with horrific consequences and dare to watch a mind-bending motel television set. Then round it all off, by way of a detour to each of two misfits with equally grisly penchants, with a visit to the moors of Victorian Scotland, where roams a creature neither man nor beast...




"If you like to read while goosebumps roam free, if you like to read just to be spooked, and if you cannot keep your eyes away from the book even whenen you are scared/disgusted/horrified, this collection is for you."  -
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