Pharmacopeia Obscura:
The August Doctor’s Notes
This collection will explore medicine’s strangest frontiers—real and imagined—through the cryptic lens of the August Doctor, whose notes chronicle the weird, wondrous, and macabre.
We seek stories of speculative medicine: ancient treatments with unforeseen side effects, sentient diseases, experimental therapies, uncanny medical devices, or practitioners whose ethics and methods straddle the line between genius and madness. Think: surgical sorcery, pharmaceutical horror, future bioware, medieval apothecaries with secrets, or cosmic parasites only the Doctor understands. Tone can range from dark and eerie to surreal and satirical—but all submissions should have an edge of the uncanny.
We are not looking for stories with excessive gore for its own sake, or stories that stigmatize illness or disability. Psychological, existential, or body horror elements are welcome if handled thoughtfully.
Send us your stories because the doctor is in.
Submissions open until filled.
