CultureCult Magazine & Press, KOLKATA (2025)

08/09/2025

CultureCult Press warmly invites horror writers from all over the world to send in their original fictions for our upcoming anthology “KrankenHaus”, a book of horror stories featuring haunted hospitals.

The word Krankenhaus is German for “hospital,” but broken down, it carries a darker poetry: Kranken (“the sick”) and Haus (“house”). A house of the sick. A place of healing, yet equally, a place of suffering, despair and death.

THE FINAL DATE OF SUBMISSION IS SEPTEMBER 20, 2025

Complete Submission Guidelines: https://culturecult.co.in/pulpcult-submission-call/

Come up with your own story or feel free to get started with one of our writing prompts:

1) Dr. Som peacefully runs a human organ racket behind the facade of his private hospital, until the day a victim, oddly enough, refuses to die.

2) This was the hospital where her mother had died. 20 years later, she awaits her own recovery but something distinctly pulls her towards the private cabin where her mother had passed away.

3) The movie star had been to lots of rehabs, but there was something odd about this secluded fortress-turned-wellness centre that gave him the creeps.

4) A nurse manning a wartime medical camp inside a dilapidated church, discovers a cursed book that can restore life, in exchange for a different life taken.

5) Arthur fakes being possessed to escape a murder conviction, but as soon as he is admitted to the old sanatorium, he starts to hear a whisper that begins to drive him insane.

6) Abandoned hospitals are almost always haunted. That’s what the public believed, so such places were good to stage ghost hunting shows. Or so Raheema thought…

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We invite submissions from all authors, irrespective of their previous publication experience.

08/09/2025

Wicked Shadow Press invites horror fiction submissions for publication in its anthology "UNHOLIER THAN THOU" (Expected release: November 2025). The submission deadline is September 20, 2025.

Complete Submission Guidelines:
https://shorturl.at/DrS3X

Unholier Than Thou seeks tales that explore the dark side of faith, belief and the devilish unknown. Religion, born of fear, is a wellspring of horror rituals. Miracles, martyrs, relics, runes, and revelations can all harbor something terrifying for even modern minds, which are far from fearless . We want stories that wrestle with the holy and the horrific, the divine and the damned; stories rooted in faith, ritual or devotion gone wrong. Think cursed relics, fallen angels, corrupt prophets, sinister cults, miracles with a price, holy places that hide unholy truths.

Feel free to come up with your own storyline or get started with one of our WRITING PROMPTS:

1) Mr. Roy is a lifelong skeptic, but when his terminally ill son is miraculously saved by holy water from the shrine of an ancient Goddess, he begins to wonder if there's something more to placebos.

2) The mysterious tribal chant was supposed to bring peace, solace, enlightenment. Instead, it sends Matthew down a rabbit hole of dark realisations.

3) The Pir Sahab believes Ahmed is under the influence of a djinn, while the young village doctor insists that he suffering from some kind of mental illness.

4) A nun fleeing religious persecution takes shelter in an abandoned hut with an altar for some strange God. When the lustful liberators find the woman, she has already transformed into something unholy.

5) A spate of possession cases in the same district sends the investigating bishop down a wicked path of epiphany as he begins to realise God's plan and the Devil's are one and the same.

6) A Hindu village priest is labeled inauspicious and is rendered jobless after marriages performed by him inevitably end with the unnatural death of a spouse within a matter of weeks.

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We welcome submissions from all authors, regardless of their age, race, nationality or previous publication experience.

31/08/2025

AVAILABLE NOW
24 Stories ~ 200+ Pages
INR 599 ~ USD 19.99

JUVIE throws open the locked doors of criminal tendencies among the youth, giving voice to the kids that society would rather forget. In this unflinching collection of fiction, 23 seasoned and emerging writers from across the globe step inside cramped cells, tense hallways and restless minds. From a hacker lost in the digital underworld to a street kid running just to survive, from whispered confessions to fists slamming against walls, JUVIE is a gut-punch of truth, where mistakes follow you like shadows and the line between victim and criminal blurs.

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31/08/2025

AVAILABLE NOW
230+ Pages
INR 599 | USD 19.99

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" " from CultureCult Press gathers words against genocide, knowing well that words have never managed to neutralise the impact of a bullet, bomb or bulldozer, nor the poison of human bias and brainwashing. These pages hold the N**i death camps, the massacres in Africa, the erasure of Crimea and of course, the ongoing slaughter in Palestine—not as lessons, because no one learns, but perhaps as accusations. As evidence. As a bitter, useless refusal to let the dead be disappeared twice: first by murder, then by silence.

Maybe this book is just another wound turned monument. Maybe it’s just moral posturing for a future that will be just as indifferent as the present. But if we are doomed to bear witness in vain, then let it at least be said: "We saw. We named it. We did the barest minimum.

Edited by Jagannath Chakravarti

31/08/2025

AVAILABLE NOW
~300 Pages - 26 Plays
INR 599 ~ USD 21.99

This gorgeous anthology of one-act plays from CultureCult Press gathers twenty-six original dramas that traverse genres and geographies: from sharp satire to tender monologue, dark comedy to political drama, modern absurdism to classical verse. Each compact drama delivers a powerful punch, unfolding human complexity via a variety of voices: homeless dreamers, disgraced priests, suicidal robots, battling twins and dying war-horses.

Whether set in barstools or battlefields, confessionals or computer code, these plays reflect a world constantly shifting, where identity, morality, memory and love are tested in a matter of minutes. FIRST FOLIO is both a showcase of contemporary dramatic writing and a tribute to theatre’s enduring power to provoke, disturb and console.

Also available in minimal ePubs
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31/08/2025

CultureCult Press is delighted to reveal the cover of METRICS: The Money Trap

Publishing soon...

12/08/2025

CultureCult Press warmly invites writers from all walks of life to send in their original fictions for our upcoming anthology “Starved”, a collection exploring the various interpretation of starvation. We welcome dark and unsettling tales, poignant character pieces, speculative imaginings as well as genre-bending narratives. Starvation may be literal or metaphorical: inflicted by war, society, desire or self.

THE FINAL DATE OF SUBMISSION IS AUGUST 30, 2025

Complete Submission Guidelines: https://culturecult.co.in/anthology-submissions/

Come up with your own story or feel free to get started with one of our writing prompts:

1) Occupying forces drop loaves of bread in the middle of a mined field, betting on how many civilians will risk their lives to get to the food.

2) As global lockdown and quarantine protocols initiate social distancing, Natasha begins to feel a primal hunger for human touch.

3) A city’s grocery supply chain collapses for 72 hours, and a quiet preschool teacher witnesses how quickly civility collapses.

4) The country’s biggest movie star always knew applause was his literal nourishment. Now, he has begun to physically waste away with waning fame.

5) A celebrity chef decides to conduct the latest season of his worldwide cooking challenge in a famine zone.

6) After a shipwreck, a starving bard must choose between eating his beloved or composing a final song to their unblemished and uncannibalised love.
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We invite submissions from all authors, irrespective of their previous publication experience.

12/08/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT: Our editor(s) have nearly finished reading and perusing the submissions for

1. Ruthless - Anthology of Poetry
2. Metrics - Anthology of Short Stories

We shall start sending acceptance emails for both anthologies from 18th August 2025 onwards.

29/07/2025

Presenting the Playwrights of FIRST FOLIO

AVAILABLE NOW
~300 Pages - 26 Plays
INR 599 ~ USD 21.99

This gorgeous anthology of one-act plays from CultureCult Press gathers twenty-six original dramas that traverse genres and geographies: from sharp satire to tender monologue, dark comedy to political drama, modern absurdism to classical verse. Each compact drama delivers a powerful punch, unfolding human complexity via a variety of voices: homeless dreamers, disgraced priests, suicidal robots, battling twins and dying war-horses.

Whether set in barstools or battlefields, confessionals or computer code, these plays reflect a world constantly shifting, where identity, morality, memory and love are tested in a matter of minutes. FIRST FOLIO is both a showcase of contemporary dramatic writing and a tribute to theatre’s enduring power to provoke, disturb and console.

Also available in minimal ePubs
Compiled and edited by Jagannath Chakravarti

WORLDWIDE Purchase Links:
Paperback: https://shorturl.at/cWtMH
ePub: https://shorturl.at/6isNm

29/07/2025

AVAILABLE NOW
~300 Pages - 26 Plays
INR 599 ~ USD 21.99

This gorgeous anthology of one-act plays from CultureCult Press gathers twenty-six original dramas that traverse genres and geographies: from sharp satire to tender monologue, dark comedy to political drama, modern absurdism to classical verse. Each compact drama delivers a powerful punch, unfolding human complexity via a variety of voices: homeless dreamers, disgraced priests, suicidal robots, battling twins and dying war-horses.

Whether set in barstools or battlefields, confessionals or computer code, these plays reflect a world constantly shifting, where identity, morality, memory and love are tested in a matter of minutes. FIRST FOLIO is both a showcase of contemporary dramatic writing and a tribute to theatre’s enduring power to provoke, disturb and console.

Also available in minimal ePubs
Compiled and edited by Jagannath Chakravarti

WORLDWIDE Purchase Links:
Paperback: https://shorturl.at/cWtMH
ePub: https://shorturl.at/6isNm

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