Market Report – Harvest Hill

Posted by Horror Grinder on March 11, 2008

The following market report on the anthology, Harvest Hill, as well as the follow-up interview are courtesy of Market Scoops by D.L. Snell.

The Market

Anthology: Harvest Hill
Publisher: Graveside Tales
Editors: Douglas Hutcheson & Mike Hultquist
Pay Rate: $.01 per word and a contributor’s copy
Response Time: 4-6 weeks
Description (from the editors): We are seeking stories from 4,000 to 6,000 words. Harvest Hill, a little town in East Tennessee, seems like an idyllic place most of the year. But it is not always so, and especially not on Halloween – every Halloween. From just after midnight of Oct. 30 until midnight Oct. 31, horrors break loose both big and small. And this has been happening as far back as the 1500s. Place your story in Harvest Hill, TN. You can set it on any Halloween of any year from 1550 CE until the end of the 20th century.
Complete Guidelines: Writer’s Guidelines

Note: Horror author D.L. Snell conducted the following interview to give writers a better idea of what the editors of this specific market are seeking; however, most editors are open to ideas outside of the preferences discussed here, as long as they fit the basic submission guidelines.

The Scoop

1. What authors do you enjoy and what is it about their writing that captivates you?
Douglas Hutcheson: Cormac McCarthy, Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tom Franklin and William Gay leap to mind. Theirs is a very human-based horror – lots of down-and-out scenarios shot through with blood and grit. In particular McCarthy and Gay spin sentences that boggle the mind and break the heart with terrible beauty.

Joe R. Lansdale and Nancy A. Collins have written some rough stories with twisted humor that smack me around and make me holler. Christopher Moore’s novels are joyrides because of his blending of wacky comedy and oddball monstrousness; that blending also reminds me of Gil’s All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez. Neil Gaiman is awe-inspiring in all media; his work is a wonderful mix of holistic mythology and dark fantasy amidst ordinary-world action and deep emotional turmoil.

Mike Hultquist: My list is pretty large and not genre specific. Some of the authors I’m most drawn to are Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelazny, Flannery O’Connor, Poppy Z. Brite, Charles Grant, Joyce Carol Oates, Chuck Palahniuk, and Stephen King. I love short fiction. These authors not only command language in ways that fascinate me, but they also make you forget you are reading a story. Their styles and subjects may differ, but each compares in one way: phenomenal storytelling.

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