Crooked Spine

✦ Quarterly horror in print ✦

Stories that follow you home.

A small horror magazine out of nowhere in particular. Four issues a year (or more), in paperback and EPUB. Themed reading periods. We publish what scares us.

Cover: What You Worship

What You Worship

▸ Theme: devotion and the price it demands

What You Worship is seeking horror about devotion and the price it demands. Familiar cults, religions, and ancient gods are welcome when the work finds something unexpected inside them; however, what you worship can mean a lover, a body, a career, money, fame, tradition, technology, grief, etc.

▸ Buy this issue
★ Winner’s edition · 2026 ★

Crooked Spine contest archive

After the Last Exit

The judges made their final cut.

Meet the writers behind After the Last Exit, read their stories, and download the free contest edition.

Meet the winners →