Brandon Applegate & Hungry Shadow Press

Brandon Applegate & Hungry Shadow Press He wants your “Little Bastards” By Angelique Fawns   Strange, dark stories swirl in the world of Brandon Applegate. This purveyor of horror lives in Texas, writes short fiction himself, and creates “weird, scary, sad anthologies full of great stories by cool people.”   Under the imprint of Hungry Shadow Press, Applegate has published two anthologies so far. It Was All A Dream: An Anthology of Bad Horror Tropes Done Right and The First Five Minutes of the Apocalypse.   He is currently looking for your Little Bastards: Too-Short Horror Stories Nobody Wants along with his co-editor Alexis DuBon. These are pieces that run between 1000-2000 words.  The call says, “They got sub callsfor flash and sub calls for 2000+, but what about those little bastards no one wants? What about those stories YOU wrote for no call at all, just because you wanted to? Those guys that never get picked for dodgeball. Let’s find them a home. Let’s find a place for those treasures, those stories that said all you had to say in 1600 words. Those outcasts, those weirdos, those stories that Goldilocks wouldn’t look at twice.”  The sub-window opens September 15th and runs till September 30th. AF: What was your inspiration for starting Hungry Shadow Press? BA: The anthology came first, funny enough. I was goofing around with some friends in a Discord chat and we were trying to come up with the worst ideas possible for an anthology. Mine was “It Was All a Dream: An Anthology of Bad Horror Tropes,” but it wasn’t long before we discussed the idea as something viable. I didn’t want to self-publish an anthology, and I have friends that run small presses, so I just thought, “I’ll do that,” and sort of jumped in...
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