These Haunted Hills: Book 5

The These Haunted Hills series began with the first installment in fall of 2017, and has since produced second, third, and fourth editions. Each anthology is filled with stories that indulge readers’ curiosity for the supernatural from an array of accomplished authors. These Haunted Hills: Book 5 is set for publication autumn 2023.

Stories submitted to the fifth edition of JCP’s haunting anthology collection should follow the theme of spooky or supernatural stories set in the Appalachian region. Stories must be fiction. Please include with your submission a short author bio. Author bios should be no more than 50 words and should be written in third person.

The submission fee per story is $20, and authors are allowed to submit a max of two stories. You may call the office at 423.926.9983 with a credit card number or mail a check to JCP at P.O. Box 701, Johnson City, TN, 37605. Stories must have a minimum of 1500 words and a maximum of 3500 words per story.

Authors accepted to the anthology will receive two free books upon publication.

The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2023. Send your submissions to submissions@ jancarolpublishing.com. Join the host of talented writers to take part in our most beloved anthology series!

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Things That Women Do

by Cynn Chadwick

After Anna Shields receives an invitation from her estranged Aunt Lydia, she flies to Tennessee to find a number of older women—Tasha, Sadie, and Chloe—also living on Lydia’s farm. Losing power during a blizzard, the women share dark and startling secrets. Skating between past and present, they reveal frighteningly desperate things that they have done. Anna begins to realize, to her shock, that these things are connected to her own past and become key to her future.

To Survive Divinity

by M. N. Henschen

Seven hundred years after The Cataclysm, gods walk the earth and all the old religions have been banned. Every year, six women are given as Offerings to the gods of War and Death. Those who complete the Disciplines are made Brides for the god to whom they were offered. Being Chosen is the honor of a lifetime, but for fiery Kaija, a non-believer, it is a prison sentence. Letting go of her old life as a free woman is difficult, and Kaija’s feisty spirit might get her into trouble. Kaija is on a mission to both survive and keep her faith in the face of very real, manifest gods.

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Bad Love Strikes is imbibed with a spirit of hope and love through the discovery of ‘exotic matter’ which propels the story back to 1944 and then back to the future, again. Bad Love Strikes is a startling original saga that will capture the attention of the reader and not let go until the ‘White Hole Project’ is proven to be real with unimaginable results.”

(Quote from back cover by James Taylor, Author of Earth’s Future: Red Alert)