In keeping with the theme of the resurrection, all pieces should be about zombies, things coming alive etc. Post your piece onto your own blog before June 11th and email the link to benjamin *AT* benjaminsolah *dot* com with the subject line including the initials TOTD.

I’ll then post the links to all the submissions in a post here within the next two days after the 11th.

Update: Due to lack of submissions, I have extended the deadline to the 18th of June. Get your submissions in and spread the word on your blog!

Another (late) Update: Sorry for lack of further news, but I’ve recently moved out of home, and had some Internet and time-related issues. But there have been no further submissions and so I’ve opened up the submission deadline indefinitely until we have a decent number of stories to put together an issue.

As of late, I’ve forgotten about it; this was due to a lack of bloggers willing to host the carnival on their blog and also because I found a full-time job and am working full-time.

So, if people are still reading this blog, or subscribed to RSS and eagerly awaiting an update, I’m putting the call out. Are people still interested in doing Tastes of the Darkness? If so, I’m willing to host the next edition, and try to canvas some big name bloggers to host in the future. And if you’re interested, leave a comment here, but not just that. Put the call out on your own blog and get more writers involved.

Tastes of the Darkness IV is online at Third Eye Writers for your reading pleasure. So, please head over and read some of the latest work from the Blogosphere’s most twisted.

Also, I have decided that Tastes of the Darkness will not be produced on a regular basis. Instead, it will be produced when a blogger puts their hand up to do the carnival. So, if you’re a blogger and you want to host the next edition, please email and we’ll schedule everything.

Please leave a comment if you’re still interested in participating in the carnival.

Update: 3rd Eye Writers, at its new home, will be hosting the carnival again. Submissions for the fourth edition are due by the 2nd of August. Send the link to your piece to etherian@gmail.com with ‘Tastes of the Darkness’ in the subject, so that the email will get through. Submit ASAP on the theme history.

And with the new edition comes opening for the next one. We’re looking for a host for this edition, as well as future ones. Email benjamin@benjaminsolah.com if you want to be a host. In the meantime, email me the URLs to your pieces on the theme of history.

Looking forward to my next fortnightly scare.

Update: If anyone is waiting for the host to be announced, never fear. If we do not have a host, I’ll post the carnival here, on this site. Please send your entries soon.

The next edition will be posted in a fortnight on the 28th and there will be no theme. Just go for it! If you would like to host the next edition, please email me. And most importantly, post your flash fiction pieces to your blog and email me the URL, and I’ll pass them on to the host when they are confirmed.

Update: Fred Charles will be hosting the next edition. Please post your flash fiction to your blog and send the link to FredCharles@mac.com by June 28.

Spread the word by announcing the carnival on your blog or forum. Use the banner and button that can be found here.

Submissions are open now for edition #2. The theme is betrayel. Writer your flash piece and post it to your blog and then send the link to benjamin@benjaminsolah.com. There currently isn’t a host for the next edition, so if you would like to be a host, email me too.

Update: Jayne d’Arcy is hosting the second edition at the awesome new writing blog, Third Eye Writers. Send your flash piece’s link to etherian@gmail.com. Also, stop by her blog and leave a comment, don’t forget to tell her you sent your sub to make sure she gets it.

Update 2: The submission deadline is midnight of the 14th of June, coming into the 15th of June (PST)

Submissions are due by midnight, 30th of May (Sydney time)

Update: Submissions are due in two days! Get writing!

It works pretty simply. Each fortnight, a host blogger will showcase a selection horror flash fiction submitted to him/her during that fortnight.

The post will look roughly like this:

[Blogger's introduction the carnival]

‘Link to story one as posted on writer’s blog,’ Link to writer’s blog – A blurb about the story

[Continue this for all the pieces, maybe adding the host's own commentary as well.]

[Closing comments and a link to the next host's blog]

The fiction can be anything under 1,000 words and it must be horror.

Leave a comment if you’re interested in being the first editor, or if you’re interested in submitting a piece.

Update: I’ve removed the minimum word count.