Rawhead is not a horror journal, but we believe in monsters and love Halloween.
For our first Special Issue, we’re borrowing back the other half of our name. In the lore, Rawhead is often portrayed as one part of a monstrous duo. Bloody Bones is its counterpart. If Rawhead is our year round banner of resistance, disruption, and mythic symbol of art as resistance, then Bloody Bones is the beast we let loose when it’s time to put all symbolic decorum aside.
If our normal issues wield Rawhead as a serious metaphor for what power fears, our special issues celebrates our love of monsters, Halloween, and the boogeyman roots we’re named for. We’re making space for horror, the uncanny, and everything that crawls out when the dark is welcomed in.
Rawhead Presents: Bloody Bones is looking for art and literature that explores the shadowed corners of being. That might mean ghosts, vampires, and folklore, but it could also mean grief, transformation, survival, hunger, queerness, rage, humor, dreams.
Monsters as metaphor, or monsters as real as you need them to be.
We welcome poetry, prose, hybrid work, and visual art in any genre (horror, sci-fi, speculative, psychological, etc), as long as it unsettles. Our submissions standards for Special Issues are identical to the guidelines for our normal issues.
