Flash: In the Dark

Following the huge success of last year's competition we are relaunching our Flash Fiction contest with a horror theme - Flash: In the Dark.

You have just 500 words to scare the living daylights out of our readers with your flesh-crawling fiction. Enter with the darkest tale you dare to write using the theme of ‘In the Dark’ and you could reach the spine-tingling final to be held on 8^th May.

From skeletons, spectres and serial killers in asylums, graveyards and woods, to banshees, bolt-necks and bloodsuckers in swamps, cemeteries and schools at night - bring your worst nightmares to life in words.

Deadline for entries: 5pm on Friday 19^th April. Enter here.

Flash: In the Dark Final

Merseyside's own harbinger of horrors, Ramsey Campbell, will judge your terrifying tales and will also be reading from his own bloodcurdling books. Joined by Les Malheureux who will give a quirky flash fiction performance. Come along and have your bones chilled to ice, your breath stolen and your brains...eaten by zombies?

Want to get goosebumps? Read the entries that have been submitted to Flash: In the Dark so far here.