Twelve House Books is an independent publisher of Literary Fiction, Poetry, Speculative Fiction, and Quirk. THB champions literature of the odd, weird, uncanny, majestic, and holy. Redemptive Realism is a huge focus for us.
Twelve House Books was launched in the early summertime of 2018 beneath the aegis of legacy publishing enterprise Darc Colours (est. 1986). The mission of THB is to publish literature, both prose and poetry, which carries a flair for the fantastic and peculiar; and to provide a haven for authors of speculative fiction who meet English literary standards set primarily during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Consider the works of Raymond Chandler, Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O’Connor, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Daphne Du Maurier, Arthur Machen, M. R. James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lord Dunsany, Saki, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stefani Christova, O. Henry, Francis Marion Crawford, and Ambrose Bierce.
Year-round call for manuscripts Your submission should be attached in a DOCX file. No Transgressive writings. Your manuscript will be judged on its first paragraph. Avoid expletives. All submissions are subjected to AI detectors. No simultaneous submissions. Multiple submissions okay. No Sci-Fi! We expect high-quality edited literature. No marketing plan is required. All royalties paid yearly via PayPal. All prose manuscripts must be at least 40K words. Upper limits are 50K for novels and 100K for short story collections. Narrative Poems and Poetry manuscripts must be at least 90 pages.
Send to editor Scáth Beorh a proposal with a short synopsis and your entire book manuscript in .docx
Use the subject line: TWELVE HOUSE BOOKS Inquiry
beorh.house@gmail.com
Twelve House Books waits with bated breath to see the works of the few-and-far-between writers of the strange and spiritually unruly who prove themselves masters of turn-of-phrase and evocation of the bizarre.
Characters or situations in stories can be realistic, gritty, or dark–but wrongdoing and/or perversion can’t be promoted or encouraged. Transgressive Fiction will not be considered. The use of expletives will also seriously narrow your chances of acceptance.
“What bizarre things does not one find in a great city when one knows how to walk about and how to look! Life swarms with innocent monsters. Oh Lord my God, Thou Creator, Thou Master, Thou who hast made law and liberty, Thou the Sovereign who dost allow, Thou the Judge who dost pardon, Thou who art full of Motives and of Causes, Thou who hast (it may be) placed within my soul the love of horror in order to turn my ear to Thee, like the cure which follows the knife; Oh Lord, have pity, have pity upon the mad men and women that we are! Oh Creator, is it possible that monsters should exist in the eyes of Him alone who knoweth why they exist, how they have made themselves, and how they would have made themselves, and could not?”
~ Charles Baudelaire
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