JayHenge Publishing is looking for speculative fiction
stories for The Midnight Menagerie at the Edge of
Everywhen, an anthology centered on a mysterious
traveling night circus, carnival, menagerie, fair,
sideshow, theatre, or wandering collection of wonders.
The Menagerie might arrive by moonlit caravan, phantom
train, dimensional doorway, clockwork procession,
dream-path, curse, invitation, or accident, and it may
appear in sleepy villages, neon cities, ruined kingdoms,
forgotten spaceports, haunted forests, distant planets,
or worlds that were never meant to touch. We welcome
fantasy, science fiction, horror, slipstream, steampunk,
weird fiction, and anything in between, provided the story
has atmosphere, wonder, strangeness, and a strong connection
to the traveling spectacle at its heart.
For this anthology, we are specifically hoping for standalone
stories that draw on characters, settings, worlds, species,
magical systems, starships, cities, gods, monsters, or other
elements that the author has already written about elsewhere,
whether in published novels, short stories, series, or other
larger projects. The story must still stand completely on its
own, and readers should not need to know the author’s other
work to enjoy it, but we want this anthology to serve as a
lantern-lit doorway into each author’s wider body of writing:
a place where familiar characters and established worlds can
briefly step into the ring, wander among the tents, and be
changed by one strange night at the edge of everywhere.
