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And One Day We Will Die
Hungry Shadows Press




Description
Founded in Ruston, Louisiana, though they later moved to and found their creative home in Athens, Georgia, Neutral Milk Hotel was active from 1989 to 1998, and again from 2013 to 2015. The band was the brainchild of reclusive musical genius Jeff Mangum. Starting as one of Mangum’s home-recording projects, their music features a lo-fi sound drawing from elements of indie rock and psychedelic folk. While gaining a cult following during their initial active years, the band’s music—buoyed by their two main albums On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea—has received a critical reevaluation since then, with critics placing their output among some of the very best music of the 1990s.

Celebrating the strange, beautiful, and haunting music and lyrics of Jeff Mangum and Neutral Milk Hotel, this anthology features short fiction inspired by their bewitching, confounding, mesmerizing cult classic songs.

Authors of the featured stories will select a song (or songs) from the band’s back catalog to serve as a jumping-off point for crafting their own original weird fiction narratives.

Look at the inspiration material. Mangum’s surreal, opaque, and stream of consciousness writing draws inspiration from childhood fantasies, historical events (including the life and death of Anne Frank), sexual tensions, tarot, and more. Night terrors and lucid dreaming also proved a rich vein for lyrical inspiration. These songs feature characters that could be denizens of Weird and dark fantasy tales already, with names like “The King of Carrot Flowers” and “The Two-Headed Boy.”

Possible story genres that might work well for a Neutral Milk Hotel-inspired stories include folk horror, weird fiction, dark fantasy, fabulism, phantasmagoria, and cosmic horror.


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Market Genres
Genres
Fantasy
Horror
Science Fiction

Market Types, Lengths & Pay Scale
Originals
Short Story
2000 to 5000 words
5 cents/word



Market Submission Types
AI Submissions?: Unknown Policy
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Multiple Submissions?: No
Simultaneous Submissions?: Yes
Translations: Original Language Only

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Count:
There are 7 completed reports in the past 12 months.
Averages and Boundaries:
Min: 41 | Average: 91.71 | Median: 75 | Max: 156
Responded:
100.00%
Accepted:
14.28% - avg 156 days
Rejected:
85.71% - avg 81 days (16.66% of rejections are personal)
Rewrites:
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Dead Letters:
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Lost/Returned:
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Never Responded:
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Pending:
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Listing added: 15 January 2024


Last officially checked: 23 January 2024


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