Welcome to Gorgon’s Gaze Press, the home of collaborative storytelling.

Beginning in Autumn 2025, Gorgon’s Gaze Press will release one new themed anthology every year: vampires, witches, paranormal Jane Austen adventures, scarabpunk, sword and planet, magic wands, witchy librarians, mythpunk, lost worlds, magical tea, girl detectives, spy fi, and much more.

Gorgon’s Gaze Press is a royalty share venture. As editor and publisher, Rebecca Buchanan receives 25% of the royalties, with the remainder divided equally among the contributors for as long as the anthology remains in print. We require one year’s exclusivity, after which we have nonexclusive rights, and the contributor may republish or use their piece in any way they wish.

General Submission Guidelines — Essays (maximum 5000 words), Fiction (maximum 8000 words), Poetry (maximum 1000 words). Other forms please query the editor at lyradora@yahoo.com.

So stay tuned for calls for submissions, cover previews, and publication announcements!

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Vampires Save the Day Night: Heroes, Anti-Heroes, and Not-So-Reformed Villains
Editor: Rebecca Buchanan
Contributors: Hugh Alan, Rebecca Buchanan, Ibai Canales, Scott. J. Couturier, Leah R. Cutter, Deborah L. Davitt, Amanda Desiree, Dex Drury, Rayn Epremian, Patricia J. Esposito, Kay Hanifen, Fen Hendren, Geoff Holder, Spencer Keene, Gerri Leen, Kit Muse, Galen T. Pickett, Nik Patrick, Nidheesh Samant, Matthew Spence, Blaze Ward, Chad A.B. Wilson
Interior Illustrations: Hugh Alan
Cover Art: Mutartis Boswell
Release Date: 31 August 2025
Universal Buy Link
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Amazon France Paperback and eBook
Amazon Germany Paperback and eBook

Heroes. Villains. And everything in between — and they’re here to save the night!

Across the centuries and across the globe, the vampire appears in our myths, folktales, dreams, and nightmares. In some tales, the vampire is a ferocious and much-feared predator, in others a harbinger of death and decay. Elsewhere, the vampire is lonely and long-suffering. In many modern tales, the vampire is a lover whose promises of an eternal happily-ever-after end sometimes in tragedy and sometimes in ecstasy. 

Such myths are the inspiration for the stories and poems in Vampires Save the Night. Here you will find vampiric lovers and artists, lawyers and superheroes, vigilantes and conservationists, and so much more. They are heroes, anti-heroes, and not-so-reformed villains.

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Future Projects

Witches Save the World: Hags, Harridans, and Hexes Gone Right — opens to submissions in January 2026. Send us stories and poems, artwork and plays about outsiders saving the day, the downtrodden fighting to make the world a better place, the outcast doing the right thing when no one else will: a devotee of Hekate smuggling children to safety outside a war zone, a witch brewing up a potion to aid the queen who exiled her, a witch conning a dragon out of its gold to help an impoverished village. We are interested in devotional works based on real-world traditions, as well as every subgenre of fantasy, from historical to urban to sword and sorcery to space fantasy and everything in between; dark fantasy bordering on horror is also welcome. And your witch can be any gender, sexuality, or ethnicity. [See the full guidelines here.]

The Witch of Winchester: Tales of Magic and Romance Inspired by the Works of Jane Austen
— opens to submissions in January 2027. Magic, ballgowns, prickly lords, and passionate ladies! We are interested in short stories featuring characters from any of Austen’s works having magical and romantic adventures. Your story can be set in an Austen novel or take place after the final page; for example, maybe Catherine Morland encounters a ghost while exploring Northanger Abbey; or perhaps Eliza Williams, determined to protect her illegitimate daughter, takes up the forbidden practice of witchcraft. Note: only a limited number of stories based on Pride and Prejudice will be accepted. You have a better chance of inclusion in the anthology if your story is based on one of Austen’s other books.

Scarabpunk: Cursed Tombs, Magical Mummies, and Solar Barques — opens to submissions in January 2028. Steampunk inspired by the culture, art, and spirituality of ancient Egypt. We want tales of skyships with papyrus sails powered by strange meteorites, boobytrapped tombs filled with automaton Anubis dogs, and Pharaohs who speak from the Underworld through aether-enchanted scarabs. The anachronistic technology can be based on realistic sources (such as papyrus, reeds, meteorite metal, et cetera) or fantastic sources (magic, aether, divine intervention, et cetera).

Moonshine and Magic: Tales of Hoodoo Hoodlums, Sorcerous Suffragettes, and Supernatural Spirits — opens to submissions in January 2029. The Roaring Twenties. Prohibition. The Harlem Renaissance. Jazz. We want poems and short fiction, plays and comic strips and artwork set in a magical 1920s that might have been. Send us stories of Federal agents using glamour magic to infiltrate the mob, gangsters brewing up magical moonshine, and suffragettes celebrating the passage of the 19th Amendment with a dance around a bubbling cauldron.

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Down the Road

Dancers in the Darkness: Tales and Poems of The Twelve Dancing Princesses — a classic fairy tale whose variants can be found around the world. We are interested in poems and short fiction that re-tell, re-imagine, twist and turn the original story. Are the princesses victims or survivors? Heroines or villains? Do they live in a palace or a manor house on the moon? Are they literal princesses, or wealthy daughters of privilege, or fairies, or Goddesses? We are interested in fairy tales, fantasy, science fiction, horror, myth, and everything in between. We would also be interested in essays that explore the themes of the original story or its many adaptations. [Please note that the number of princesses varies by the story; as such, you can have between three and twelve princesses in your version.]

A Skirmish of Wit: Romance with Spark, Snark, and Sass — we want short fiction in any genre of romance, from historical to paranormal to science fiction. Your protagonists can be any gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation (polyamorous, queer, asexual, heterosexual, any combination thereof). Any explicit sexual content should serve the purposes of the story. The only requirement is that the protagonists fall in love while verbally (and/or physically!) sparring and coming to appreciate one another’s intelligence; smart is sexy! Think Lizzie and Darcy, Beatrice and Benedick, and others. [Note: just to be clear — absolutely no pedophilia, bestiality, or sexual assault. Any sexual content must be between consenting adults.]

Spear and Fang: Prehistoric Tales of Magic and Adventure — we want short fiction and poetry in a fantastical pre-historic setting. We want epic adventures among glaciers and mammoth herds, with your heroes battling vile necromancers, evil Deities, and sabertooth tigers. We want old fashioned pulpy fun with strong, intelligent protagonists of every gender and ethnicity.

The Tree of Eildon: Poems, Tales, and Essays Inspired by Thomas the Rhymer — the original Scottish ballad has been popular for centuries, appearing in books, plays, television shows, films, and more. We are interested in poetry and short fiction that re-imagines, re-tells, twists and turns the ballad. We are interested in any genre from fairy tale to fantasy to science fiction to horror to myth, and everything in between. We are also interested in essays that analyze the original ballad and/or its many variants and adaptations. [Among other resources, check here and here.]

White Thorn, Black Thorn, Red: Tales and Poems of The Sleeping Beauty — the original fairy tale has enthralled readers for centuries. We want poems and short stories that twist, turn, re-tell, and re-imagine that fairy tale. We are interested in every genre of speculative fiction, from fantasy to science fiction to horror to myth to everything in between. We are also interested in essays that analyze the original tale and/or its many variants.