Monsters, Mystery, & Mayhem Contest Longlist

These 39 stories thrilled us with their specific and creepy details, their attention to character, and their surprises in plot and language! We’re narrowing it down to our shortlist and this will be sent to judge Amber Sparks very soon!

Flesh and Blood

Regarding the Disappearance and His Subconscious Mind

Dealing with Black Mold

Devotions

Gone

Tribute

Local Color

Speak to Sire of Love

Double the fun

The Bottom of a Well is Also a Home

The Prize

Her Secret Dark

Selkie Wife

Omigaa

Vampires in the Basement

Should be Around Here Somewhere

A Love Story

The Pigeon-pea Princess of Sanganakallu

Hypnos & The Mother

You Ain’t Heard of the Buffalo Man?

Breathing Room

Hair, Teeth

Millie & Mary

Monster Diary

Blood Honey

Game

Mousetrap

Mr. Reynolds Made All the difference in the World

After the End

My Brother, Named and Unnamed

Searching for Pesticide

The Loch Ness Monster is Dead

Fridge

Three Part Figment: a Woman, a Mother, the Bird

a modern fairy tale

Papaya Erectus

THE CHILDREN HAVE COME

Escapologist