Turn off the lights and embrace the darkness this Halloween. This chilling bundle serves up ghosts, spirits, and literary greats on a silver platter, short stories both new and old to haunt your dreams and make you scream. 

We are launching a stunning new series of Romantic Fantasy Short Stories (read about them here!) – and we’re inviting illustrators to submit line drawings inspired by the first two anthology themes:

• A Breath of Time
• Of Love & Dragons

Deadline: 29th October 2025

Kory and his expecting wife win a box at the estate sale of an old explorer. Buried at the bottom is a casefile outlining a rash of disappearances from the nineties when an entire party of hunters vanished while at their hunting shack. They were never seen again. Kory and his associates decide to investigate, but careful what you search for!

Coral and Allan Clarendon believe there’s evil in their house, and they call for an exorcism. Allan’s father Thom believes his wife is wrong to think the ceremony has left their grandson Dean in worse danger. But if she’s alone in seeing the terrors that are gathering around him, how desperate will her solution have to be? A special edition.

The Flame Tree Myth & Fiction Podcast is now available to listen to on all platforms!

Thrill to the adventures of the past, and the visions of the future. Featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror and the supernatural, short stories, ancient tales, myth and folklore from our short story submissions, with author interviews and occasional special features about publishing and writing.

We open submissions to writers regularly throughout the year, looking for stories to feature in a range of our print titles, as well as our monthly fiction newsletter.

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It's an odd number, 19.97, but any purchase over that amount is postage free. That makes it easier to buy two items with a retail value of 9.99. In the UK, that's two standard notebooks, two wall calendars or two guitar chord books; in the US a jigsaw and a pocket book.

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