Macabre Magazine
The name Dark Harbor Magazine gave us a strong beginning, but it no longer reflects the scale of the magazine we are building.
Dark Harbor Magazine Becomes Macabre Magazine
For nearly a year, Dark Harbor Magazine has been a home for horror. We published stories that lingered, work that carried weight, and voices that shaped the character of the magazine.
In that short span, readers returned issue after issue, and writers trusted us with their best work. The result was more than proof of concept—it was a foundation.
With our next issue, Dark Harbor Magazine will publish its final installment under that name. From that moment forward, the publication continues as Macabre Magazine.
Why the Change
The name Dark Harbor Magazine gave us a strong beginning, but it no longer reflects the scale of the magazine we are building. A harbor suggests pause, boundary, and shelter. The work appearing in our pages resists those ideas. It pushes outward, unsettles, and asks for more space than the name allowed.
The word macabre better describes the character of what we publish. It is direct, unmistakable, and tied to the tradition of horror in a way the old name was not. With this change, the magazine takes on an identity that matches the writing, the art, and the ambition that already defines it.
Our Mission
The mission of Macabre Magazine is to appreciate horror in all its forms and to give it a lasting place in culture. Horror has long been examined seriously by critics, artists, and readers. We are joining that conversation with the goal of bringing the many expressions of horror together in one publication.
Fiction will remain central, but the pages will reach further. Essays will situate horror within culture and history. Criticism will explore how the genre works on the page and beyond. Poetry will distill its atmosphere. Interviews will highlight the voices shaping the field. Visual art and multimedia will carry horror into forms that words alone cannot capture.
This mission is not about inflating the magazine but about clarifying its role: to publish horror with ambition and to present it with the same seriousness afforded to any other art form.
For Readers
Readers who first discovered Dark Harbor Magazine for its fiction will continue to find those stories at the core of Macabre Magazine. What expands is the range of work surrounding them. Each issue will place fiction alongside essays, poetry, interviews, and visual or multimedia pieces, offering more ways to engage with the genre.
The reading experience will not be diluted by this growth. Every selection will continue to be chosen with care and edited with the same attention that established the magazine in its first year.
For Contributors
Contributors gave shape to Dark Harbor Magazine. Their stories established its reputation and made its rebrand possible. That foundation remains, and with it comes a larger stage.
Macabre Magazine will publish short fiction with the same seriousness, but will also invite work across other forms: essays, criticism, poetry, visual art, photography, and multimedia.
Writers and artists who contribute will become part of a publication that treats horror as culture and records it with the care of an archive.
Looking Ahead
The rebrand is a step forward, not a departure. Dark Harbor Magazine demonstrated that an audience exists for this kind of publishing. Macabre Magazine gives us the right name, a clearer direction, and the freedom to expand.
What began as a promising experiment has grown into a magazine with a distinct identity and purpose. That purpose is now carried by a name that leaves no question about who we are and what we publish.
The harbor chapter has closed. The macabre chapter begins.
Something Macabre This Way Comes.