M I S S I O N

M E N A C E publishes work that encapsulates the dark, the transgressive, the gross. While not strictly a space for the speculative, M E N A C E seeks the “literary weird”—work that would be rejected from big literary magazines for being too genre.

M E N A C E walks the line between the gazes, so send us your best pieces about femme rage, femgore, period sex, queer sex, ghosts, girlhood, girlhood as a girl of color, grief, the gothic, demons, witches, climate, science, seas, mothers, monsters, any and all non-Twilight vampires. We want body horror, eco-horror, cosmic horror. We want work that walks into the shadows and illuminates the shape of something greater breathing in the dark—humor, wonder, love, repair, transcendence. Give us your unlikeable femme protagonists. Give us words that haunt.

More of What We Like

Emily Brontë; Emily Dickinson; David Lynch; the months of October through February; Mitski; Father John Misty; Carmen Maria Machado; Monstrilio; Ethel Cain; Cathy Park Hong; Candice Wheuhle; Toni Morrison; The Southern Reach Trilogy; Eve Babitz; Jenny Saville; Rekha; The Seas; Sruti Swamy; Sam Sax; Melissa Febos; Thirteen; Thoroughbreds; folk magic; tarot; It Follows; Leslie Jamison; June Jordan; Smile; surgery; stalking; The Lighthouse; Metric; Alice Glass; Elena Ferrante; Audre Lorde; Amy Winehouse; Elle Nash; Rebecca; banshees; abandoned malls; the aughts; noir; Night Film; Suspiria; Salman Rushdie; Samantha Wall; Princess Mononoke; the original Nosferatu; Frankenstein; cemeteries; Creamerie; Black Swan; Sarah Rose Etter; CJ Leede, Saltburn; Barbara Borland; Heathers, Florence + The Machine; Jennifer’s Body; Gillian Flynn; Ling Ma; Paradise Rot; Ninth House; Lisa Taddeo; The House of the Spirits; Over the Garden Wall; sailboats; storms; Deadloch; Bikini Kill; Billie Holiday; Big Little Lies season one; Fire and Hemlock; zines; FKA Twigs; Lana Del Rey; Arundhati Roy; Mexican Gothic; Kate Bush; CocoRosie; Tori Amos; the women of the Addams Family; anatomy; Demeter and Persephone; Personal Shopper; Eyes Wide Shut; early Muse; Mona Awad; Han Kang; Taryn Simon; Octavia Butler; Practical Magic; Björk; Tananarive Due; Antonia Kuo; the Watchmen limited series; poisons and potions; cum; The Neon Demon; the occult; snakes; psychics; chainsaws; dirty martinis; taxidermy; True Detective: Night Country; the hot girl you don’t know if you want to be or want to be with smoking a cigarette outside your Catholic high school; Shirley Jackson; Zombieland.