We will be creating an anthology titled Utter Fabrication: Historical Accounts of Unusual Buildings and Structures. It will be a collection of fictional stories about haunted houses and other weird places. For this anthology, our pay will be 2¢/word. We are particularly looking for stories from authors who are underrepresented in fiction: people of...
Read more →Mad Scientist Journal is running a Kickstarter for our fourth anthology! This year, it’s Utter Fabrication: Historical Accounts of Unusual Buildings and Structures. We want to create a collection of stories about haunted houses and other weird places, told from the perspective of people who have encountered these locations. We will be opening to submissions after...
Read more →
Advances in mass production, tidying tips, and suggestions for the use of supernatural fluids. These are but some of the strange tales to be found in this book. Mad Scientist Journal: Winter 2017 collects thirteen tales from the fictional worlds of mad science. For the discerning mad scientist reader, there are also pieces of...
Read more →
“Once we were all just people. Our culture was only an element of our complex being. Now, we are reduced to our origins.” — Amelia Fisher, “The Children of Echidna” No one understands being an outsider like the people who have experienced it. Mad Scientist Journal has brought together twenty-six tales of people who...
Read more →
The end of the world, holiday letters, and the state of mad science in 2016. These are but some of the strange tales to be found in this book. Mad Scientist Journal: Autumn 2016 collects fourteen tales from the fictional worlds of mad science. For the discerning mad scientist reader, there are also pieces...
Read more →
Now’s the time that we look back at the numbers for June! The Money Aspect Amounts in parentheses are losses/expenses. Hosting: ($17.06) Stories: ($70.00) Art: ($560.00) Advertising: ($50.00) Processing Fees: ($20.69) Printing: ($382.44) Donations: $42.71 Ad Revenue: $0.17 Online Book Sales: $45.14 Total: ($1,012.17) QTD: ($3,316.81) YTD: ($83.20) All Time: ($14,227.23) As per usual,...
Read more →
Mutant cephalopods, inter-species disease transmission, squabbling scientists. These are but some of the strange tales to be found in this book. Mad Scientist Journal: Summer 2016 collects twelve tales from the fictional worlds of mad science. For the discerning mad scientist reader, there are also pieces of fiction from Freya Marske, Maureen Bowden, and...
Read more →
Over the last few days we’ve sent out contracts for every story we’ve accepted for our upcoming anthology, Fitting In: Historical Accounts of Paranormal Subcultures. Now that we have them all back, we feel comfortable sharing the TOC with you. The following list is in alphabetical order by last name. The final order in...
Read more →We’re still playing catch-up after Europe and, now, reading through slush for our next big anthology. So we’re combining February and March. The Money Aspect Amounts in parentheses are losses/expenses. February Hosting: ($17.06) Stories: ($230.00) Art: ($197.83) Advertising: ($45.91) Processing Fees: ($21.24) Conventions: ($30.00) Donations: $32.71 Ad Revenue: $1.03 Physical Book Sales: $69.00 Online...
Read more →
Richard Zwicker, who is a regular contributor to Mad Scientist Journal, has a collection of his short fiction available! We’re currently hip deep in reading slush for this year’s big anthology, so we haven’t been able to dive into this one. But we have consistently loved everything he has submitted to us, and he’s...
Read more →