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In the last of our teaser stories for our Call of the Wyld werewolf anthology – Walking Dog by David J. Rank shows us just why the park’s maybe not the best place to be in the dark. Live, free and on the website now.

There’s always an odd sock too. Where do all the socks go? But that’s not what this story is about, because we’ve taken it straight from our brand-new werewolf anthology – The Call of the Wyld. So what happened to the rest of the rabbit? #FreeFiction from Holly Barratt – live now on the website.

Wer’e building up to the launch of our werewolf anthology – The Call of the Wyld – with A Werewolf’s Lament by Holly Rae Garcia. Find it free here, and if that whets your appetite, you can preorder The Call of the Wyld here – it’s unchained on Wednesday February 17th (a full moon, obviously,Continue reading “Wyld Flash 29 – A Werewolf’s Lament”

We’re accepting novels again – send us your best! Speculative and literary fiction – however you define it. 50-100,000 words. Go to our submissions page for more details.

We’re reopening for the submission of novels in five days time. We’re very keen to find some fine fiction, so gear up – 50-100,000 words of fantasy, science fiction, well written literary or just a little weird.

Trapped, alone, in the dark, where evil lurks. For all eternity? Cornerstone, by MK Roney – our 28th Wyld Flash. Free, frightening and available right now – https://wyldblood.com/cornerstone/

“In the underside of her skirt, she stitches the Midgard Serpent; Fenris the wolf. A draugar with three red stitches to show the blood dripping down his chin.” So you know where this story’s going! The Needlecraft Guide to Averting Doom by Malina Douglas is our 27th free flash story, available on the website rightContinue reading “Wyld Flash 27 – The Needlecraft Guide to Averting Doom”

For another excellent review of Wyldblood Magazine # 1 check out Out of This World SFF Reviews, who were kind enough to say very nice things about our opening issue. Our fine writers are impressing again!

We do like a good review – and this is a good review. Click here to read what the lovely people at the Witty and Sarcastic Book Club had to say about the first issue of Wyldblood Magazine – available now from us and from Amazon

Our latest free flash fiction is now up and live on our website. Tova Hope-Liel’s Palingenesis is a dark story of superstition and the supernatural. Perfect for a cold, January Friday. Also check out our inaugural issue of Wyldblood Magazine with eleven great fantasy and science fiction stories – now available.

Brand new and full of the smell of fresh ink, Wyldblood Magazine #1 is out and ready to purchase in print or digitally. Eleven fantastic stories of science and the supernatural – ice princesses and intrigue, ghosts and wizards, aliens and artists, all in 84 tightly packed pages (plus a bright, shiny cover). All forContinue reading “Wyldblood Magazine is out now!”

Today’s Wyld Flash #freefiction is The Silence of the Owl by Sam Winner. Scary when it hoots – terrifying when it doesn’t.

Wyldblood Magazine #1 is out on 15th January. Eleven stories, one interview, loads of book reviews and a bright, shiny cover. We’ve got frogs and dogs, doll’s houses and crows, soul eaters and graffiti artists, ice sculptures and coal miners, wizards and savants and a cyclist on a mission. Fantasy, science fiction and a touchContinue reading “Wyldblood Magazine #1 out Friday!”

Today’s Wyld Flash is an edgy, dark take on a familiar story. Read Burn, by Jennifer Loring for a tiny dose of morning shivers. #FreeFlash every Friday at http://www.wyldblood.com.

Today’s New Year themed Wyld Flash is Eye Candy by N.E Rule, where everything kicks off at a New Year party – in space. Ah… parties. Maybe this year. Happy 2021!

Happy holidays and festive greetings from Wyldblood. And today being a Friday, there’s free flash on our website. Jane Saunders’ Looking Back considers Christmas from a fresh angle. Whether you’re partying or locked down, whether you’re celebrating or just watching the latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery, have a great one.

Today we’re publishing Queen of the Black Coast – a collection of classic Conan the Barbarian stories by Robert E Howard. Pirates, wizards and monsters – who could want for more? Fast paced Sword and Sorcery – avaiable to order in the UK and to order in the US now.

We’ve just published a brace of Robert E Howard Conan the Barbarian books – starting with the only novel-length Conan story – The Hour of the Dragon. Classic sword and sorcery with all the dragons, wizards and demons a legendary action hero could ever need. Out now in paperback (click to order copies from theContinue reading “Hour of the Dragon”

War Crimes by Eric Fomley is our latest Wyld Flash – free on the website. We could have gone all light and fluffy in the run-up to Christmas, but why be predictable? And in case you missed it, we’re back open for submissions. Happy Friday.

We’re loving the submissions flooding in right now – but if anyone has a New Year themed flash piece they want to fast-track into publication, now’s the time to send it in (anything up to 1,500 words for New Year flash – paying market).

We are now open for submisisons of flash fiction and short stories – check out https://wyldblood.com/submissions-2/ We’re a paying market with a bimonthly magazine and a new flash fiction story on our website every Friday – http://www.wyldblood.com

New Flash on the site today: What We Found on the Way to Alpha Centauri by David Rogers. Science Fiction for a change: we’re so out there. Also we’ve just published some classic H.G. Wells as part of our growing Wyldblood Classics collection. The Island of Doctor Moreau and Other Unsettling Tales is available nowContinue reading “Wyld Flash 19 – What We Found on the Way to Alpha Centauri”

We’re launching our second Wyldblood Classic today – The Island of Doctor Moreau and Other Unsettling Tales – H.G.Well’s timeless tale of monsters, madness and obsession. Can we raise the beasts in our own image or will their savage natures prevail? Classic horror-tinged gothic fantasy from the godfather of science fiction, with two bonus stories: TheContinue reading “The Island of Doctor Moreau”

Today’s extra-length free Wyld Flash is Felis Sarcasticus by Robert Bagnall, sharp as cat’s claws. Felines, space, angry mad people and a joke or two – we love this one. Click the link or track it down on the Wyldblood site.

This week’s free flash on the website is Alexander Xavier Urpi’s The Pit. about a small town end of the world panic, a monster maw from the dark depths and a deserted highway. Don’t believe the rumors…

Bird Masks and Leather Butterflies by Russell Hemmell is up today on the site – a suitably spooky story for Friday 13th. It’s super sized too – flash plus. #FlashFiction #FlashFriday #WyldFlash

“When I wake up from having my breasts surgically removed, multiple apocalypses are in progress…” Light and Sleek and Strong by Ephiny Gale – full story in Wyld Flash, on wyldblood.com, right now.

Writers – you have ONE DAY left to submit your best stories – we’re currently accepting #flash (up to 1,000 words) for our website and #werewolf stories (up to 10,000 words) for our anthology – but we’re not open for long! Submissions close tomorrow when the moon is full…

In My Image by Richard Wren is now up and live on the Wyldblood site. An uplifting tale for a dark, stormy morning.

Wyld Flash 13 is now online – the latest in a baker’s dozen of fantastic and unsettling stories. Today’s tale is Debt by Scottish writer Bob Johnston – a dark tale of privilege and obligation.

Things are quiet at Wyldblood HQ today with only the sound of the rain and falling leaves to disturb us. Which gives us space to scheme and plot and plan. We’ve got new Flash coming up on Friday, but in the meantime there’s still Michelle Muenzler’s unsettling Neither Sleeping, Nor Alive, Nor Dead to enjoy.Continue reading “Autumn and everything after”

Today we’re delighted to publish our twelfth flash fiction story in our Wyld Flash series. Twelve stories in twelve weeks, consistently hitting inboxes every Friday. This week we feature Michelle Muenzler’s Neither Sleeping, Nor Alive, Nor Dead, It’s a beautifully written but sad, subtle, poignant story – with snakes.

In classic creative juxtaposition we’re both happy and sad today. Happy because we’ve just sent out all our acceptance letters for the first batch of Wyldblood Magazine stories and sad because we’ve just sent out the last of the rejection letters too – and the latest batch were this close… If you haven’t heard fromContinue reading “we’re happy/sad”

We’ve spent an agonising weekend deciding which stories will appear in the first Wyldblood Magazine – and we’ve made our choices! We haven’t broken the news to the authors yet (or to the people we’ve shortlisted but had to sadly decline) but that’s coming – and soon! We’re still open for werewolves and flash butContinue reading “We’ve made our choices!”

Cheryl Sonnier’s Wolf Whistle is up today in our Wyld Flash series. Every Friday a new story to chill your bones or make you smile. Sometimes both.

Sunday is review day here at Wyldblood, where we sweat over the stories we’ll be accepting (and anguish over some of the excellent ones we’re going to have to turn away). We’ve been looking at flash fiction today, and it struck me that some of our favourites barely creep into the ‘speculative fiction’ category atContinue reading “not just science fiction and fantasy”