SERIES
Our Original Series' - spanning multiple genres, formats and overarching themes.
Submissions Closed
Closing date: 4th of May 2021
"NO MATTER WHAT, YOU'LL FIND OUT HERE:
WHEN THE NEEDLE DROPS..."
ARIZONA, 21XX
A cannibal DJ revels in the wasteland, his radio show a desperate attempt to connect with a dying world. These yarns were spun and passed onto him from a time before; his memory an opaque lens into generation’s lost. These cautionary tales may no longer apply to the everyday survival of those still left with beating hearts, but the few still left all know that they are far better off in the cruel wastes of this new world - alone - than within the stories told by waning breath, beneath the crushing drop of the needle…
Release
The Needle Drops… (TND) is a horror anthology containing a selection of contributed Short Fiction, Flash Fiction and Poetry.
Weaved between a varied selection of fiction from our contributors is Desert Drive - a graphic comic strip illustrated by Thom Simpson that begins a story told across volumes, crafting the mythology and introducing our anthologies' host: a cannibal radio DJ.
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Alongside this is our Official Soundtrack, featuring eight original tracks, two of which will be crafted with our contributors fiction in mind.
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FEATURING FICTION FROM:
RUSSELL DORN
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SOFIA EZDINA
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DENNIS MOMBAUER
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JANINA ARNDT
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EMILY DORFFER
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V. ASTOR SOLOMON
ROBERT BAGNALL
ALLISON LOUISE MILLER
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M.C. SCHMIDT
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GUSTAVO BONDONI
AVRA MARGARITI
​SAOIRSE NÍ CHIARAGÁIN
ALEX DE-GRUCHY
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T. WILLIAMS
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RAISTLIN SKELLEY
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ANDREW M. BOWEN
ALI SEAY
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TIMI SANNI
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AN GRACE
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ANYA LEIGH JOSEPHS
DREW MARTYN
MARINA & SERGEY DYACHENKO
ANATOLY BELILOVSKY
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JOHN GREY
ILLIMANI FERREIRA
LENA NG
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AMANDA JANE
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J. R. HIGGINS
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MELISSA BOBE
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MARK MILLS
"Desert Drive"
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ILLUSTRATED BY
THOM SIMPSON
OFFICIAL OST
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BY MVRLOK
CONTRIBUTED FICTION
The bulk of The Needle Drops... is composed of contributed fiction via our submission process, from a range of talent - whether new to the publishing world, or experienced authors.