The Rules:
• Write the best story you can under 2000 words (include word count on
manuscript).
• In the spirit of the collection of stories offered as the Grand Prize,
and of Valentine's Day when the winner and honorable mention will be published,
your story needs to be horrific, but with a happy ending. Perhaps this twist
on the usual will get you thinking outside the box more than ever before.
• Send it to us at contest@moonlit-path.com
by January 26th, 2010.
The
Prize:
The Grand Prize winner's story will be published in the February issue of Tales from the Moonlit Path and the author will receive an autographed copy of Scott Nicholson's collection, Thank You for the Flowers.
Featuring:
Haunted (First Runner Up, 1999 Darrell Award), The Vampire Shortstop (1999 Hubbard
Gold Award Winner), Constitution, Metabolism (recommended for Nebula Award),
Homecoming, Dead Air, The Three-Dollar Corpse (recommended for Stoker Award),
Thirst, Skin, In the Heart of November, Do You Know Me Yet?, Kill Your Darlings
and The Boy Who Saw Fire. Cover painting by John Shamburger.
"Rarely
does a story teller weave prose with the emotional energy and sheer gusto of
Nicholson. Wasting nothing, his concise, poetic prose squeezes optimum terror
and drama from a minimum of words. His colorful, driven narrative style catches
the reader in tempests of emotion and strange possibility." -- William
P. Simmons for Horrorfind
The tales in this book cover such a range of feeling - from tender to traumatic - and the reader will experience the full range. Nicholson is a gifted writer but a helluva storyteller."-- Jim Brock, Baryon Magazine #79
"Like Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Rod Serling, and Robert Aickman before him, Scott Nicholson is impossible to categorize."-- Necrofile
Honorable Mentions will be published in the February Issue of Tales from the Moonlit Path.
Contest
Fee:
None
Please Read Before Submitting:
• Before entering this contest, please subscribe to Tales from the Moonlit Path Magazine. We will not use your information for anything except to send you Tales from the Moonlit Path newsletters, alerting you to upcoming issues. We may, on occasion, email you regarding exciting upcoming events. To subscribe, please send a blank email to: subscribe@moonlit-path.com.
• In the interest of taste and decency,
please do not send us stories that deal with sex and children, or sex and animals.
Only stories 2000 words and under will be judged, anything over 2000 words will
be deleted.
• Tales from the Moonlit Path editors reserve the right to extend
this contest, or end it with no winner in the event the editors do not find
a suitable contest winner.
• We are always open to regular, non-contest submissions.