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A short story competition for any interested horror writers, with a few days left to go.

http://blumhousebooks.com/

Bring out the Blake

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Oh, awesome! Horror is definitely a genre I'd like to learn to write well. I think I'm more interested in seeing what other people come up with for the competition, if anyone enters that is. Are you going to enter it, @Katie-Ellen Hazeldine ?
 
Not this one, 1408. :) I'd be up for it but I haven't seen it early enough. Spotted it on Twitter today, thought I'd share. I have a horror story in a drawer, but it's something I could turn into a novel one day so I'm sitting on it.
 
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