Something dark is coming.

Welcome to Of Ink and Shadows — a literary magazine built in the dark, for the dark.

We are not live yet. But we are here, and we are building something with intention: a publication dedicated to horror, dark fantasy, and thriller-mystery fiction that takes its writers as seriously as it takes its stories.

We exist to give first-time and emerging writers a real home for dark fiction — a place where going deeper into the dark is not just permitted. It is the point.

We believe the best dark fiction does not shock you. It stays with you. It lives in the space between sentences. It is the dread that builds slowly, the horror that feels true, the darkness that earns itself word by word.

That is what we are here to publish. And we want to publish you — whether you have fifty publication credits or this would be your very first.

What’s coming — and when

• Launch date:January 1, 2027
• First submission window:Opens October 31, 2026 — closes November 27, 2026
• We accept flash fiction (100–1,000 words), short stories (1,001–7,500 words), and novelettes (7,501–17,500 words)
• Stories publish every Tuesday on a rolling weekly cadence
• A quarterly print anthology collects the best work from each year
• A resources section built for first-time and emerging writers — because we know what it feels like to be new to this