Once home to a young Mary Shelley (then known as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin), Dundee has long revelled in the gothic imagination. Local legends of witches, dragons, and sea monsters abound. In the 1831 introduction to Frankenstein, Shelley wrote:

“My habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee. Blank and dreary on retrospection I call them; they were not so to me then. They were the eyry of freedom, and the pleasant region where unheeded I could commune with the creatures of my fancy.”

We could not have put it better ourselves – this is our ethos. We publish all forms and styles of Gothic short fiction, including tales of terror and wonder, horror, speculative fiction or the fantastical.

Founded in 2026 by Daniel Cook, a Professor in English at the University of Dundee, we are a growing enterprise supported by Ninewells Press in Scotland. As the project grows we hope to switch from a submissions-fee model to a honorarium model as soon as we can cover our operational costs and/or secure external funding.

We thank you for your support – and cannot wait to read your stories!