Fraidy Cat Press

21/03/2025

Necessary reminders:
- generative AI is theft
- using generative AI is active participation in plagiarism
- authors and artists deserve to be compensated for their work
- work created with or aided by gen AI is not welcome here.

17/03/2025

FCQ5 coming soon….

21/02/2025

We have the following slots remaining in our 2025 lineup:

Vol. 6 Growth: 2-3 stories
Vol. 7 Rage: 10 stories
Vol. 8 Gnaw: 1-3 stories

Hoping to finish out our lineup for the year when we next open in April! Bring us your cosmic, weird, terrifying, & raging stories!

21/02/2025

We’ve responded to all submissions! Thank you for sharing your work with us.

07/01/2025

Today is our last day for general submissions! Hope to see your story for our paranoia volume!

06/01/2025

Want to know more about our press and what we're looking for? Angelique Fawns - Horror, Sci Fi and Fantasy Author was nice enough to do a micro-interview with us for her great newslettter!

01/01/2025

We're open for submissions now through 1/7! Send us your paranoid, obsessive cosmic horrors!

31/12/2024

We’re on the Horror Tree!

30/12/2024

You can find us hanging out in Bluer Skies if you search fraidycatpress!

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30/12/2024

We open for submissions at 12:01 AM January 1st! We cannot wait to kick off our second year with some great new scares from you all out there!

Please note that our procedure has changed slightly - more information is available at our site and on the submission forms! We're seeking themed submissions for our volumes this year and we're allowing up to 2 submissions from authors this call!

26/12/2024

Guess what? The Fraidy Cat editors found one more present at the back of the indie tree for you to open!

Check out "Unwrapped" by Ryan Marie Ketterer for free on our site now!

25/12/2024

May your fires be warm, your reading be scary and may you all be home safe in your own universe for the holidays.

Check out "Home Safe" by L.R. McGary during your restful holiday afternoon.

24/12/2024

We hope your winter evening is winding down peacefully, perhaps with a family board game? Check out this awesome horror story perfect for the holidays involving winter break, siblings, chess, and the grocery store - "Endgame" by Penny Durham is free to read online now!

24/12/2024

First free horror story for Christmas is up now! Check our "Hosts and Travelers" by Maxwell Marais from Fraidy Cat Quarterly: Volume 1 today!

23/12/2024

Fraidy Cat Quarterly Volume 3 & 4 are shipping out to a lot of lucky readers tomorrow! We’re going to have to get another bin soon!

14/12/2024

Congrats to Jennifer Lee Rossman on her upcoming colllection “Allosaurus in Wonderland and Other Stories from Avalonia” with From Beyond Press! You can check out her story “The Huldra” in Fraidy Cat Quarterly: Volume 1!

10/12/2024

Since our launch in May this year we've sold ~60 copies of our volumes through direct sales and 99 through Amazon and other ecommerce/retail outlets. It doesn't feel like a ton, but I'm so excited to have gotten that many copies out into the world.

Very eager to try and add a 0 to those numbers in 2025! Mostly because we want to pay authors more and grow Fraidy Cat into a self-sustaining press.

09/12/2024

If Fraidy Cat Press were to launch something new in 2025/2026, would you be the most interested in:

- Themed anthologies
- Single author novellas
- Single author story collections
- Single story handmade chapbooks
- Something else?

Let us know!