Crooked Spine★ A Horror Magazine ★

✦ Quarterly horror in print ✦

Stories that follow you home.

A small horror magazine out of nowhere in particular. Four issues a year, in paperback and on Kindle. Themed reading periods, fair pay. We publish what scares us.

Issue 7

ComingSoon

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Wet Country

Folk horror & water

June 2026

Coming!Jun 17

Wet Country

▸ Theme: Folk horror & water

Eight new stories about rivers, bogs, baptisms, and what surfaces when the rain stops. Foldout cover by Lina Vesper.

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Issue 8: Static

▸ Theme: Analog dread, broadcast horror, the wrong signal

May 6 – Jul 6, 2026
closes in 2 months

Short fiction for our eighth issue. Pirate radio, dead-channel snow, found tapes, the show that aired only in your house. 1,500 to 6,000 words.

See all upcoming windows for full guidelines.