Excluded
The publishers listed below have been excluded from the main list of genre small press publishers, for the reasons cited parenthetically.
- 1320 Publishing (self-publishing, apparently)
- 23 House (primarily non-horror)
- Absolute Tyrant (primarily non-horror)
- Alexandrian Archives (primarily non-horror)
- Altus Press (primarily non-horror)
- Alpenhouse Apparitions (dormant)
- Amber Quill Press (primarily non-horror)
- Ambler House Publishing (self-publishing, apparently)
- Apocalyptic Press (vanity? no website)
- Armored Publishing (vanity, apparently)
- Asylett Press (primarily non-horror)
- Batwing Press (dormant)
- Benbella Books (primarily non-horror)
- Bereshith Publishing and ShadowLands Press (dormant)
- Biting Dog Publications (dormant)
- Black Heron Press (primarily non-horror)
- Black Rose Books (primarily non-horror; also vanity)
- Black Water Books (self-publishing, apparently)
- Blu Phi’er Publishing (dormant; website down)
- Blue Fairy Books (self-publishing, apparently)
- Brighid’s Fire Books (primarily non-horror)
- Cadaverine Publications Press (self-publishing? no website)
- Comma Press (primarily non-horror)
- Cornerstone Books (primarily non-horror)
- CWG Press (primarily non-horror)
- Dailey Swan Publishing (primarily non-horror)
- Dark Hart Press (dormant)
- Dark Monster Publications (self-publishing)
- Dedalus Books (dormant)
- Defining Moments (self-publisher?)
- Dennis McMillan Publications (primarily non-horror)
- Die, Monster, Die! Books (dormant)
- Dog Horn Publishing (primarily non-horror)
- Drollerie Press (primarily non-horror)
- Dybbuk Press (dormant)
- Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing (primarily
non-horror) - Emerald Book Company (vanity press)
- Eternal Press (primarily non-horror)
- Fairwood Press (primarily non-horror, but see Darkwood Press)
- Fantasist Enterprises (primarily non-horror)
- Footsteps Press (no longer dormant, but no longer a horror publisher)
- Ghostwriter Publications (dormant)
- Gryphonwood Press (primarily non-horror)
- Hellfire Publishing (primarily non-horror)
- Harvest Shadows Publications (dormant)
- Hobgoblin Press (dormant?)
- Immanion Press (primarily fantasy)
- Insidious Publications (on indefinite hiatus)
- Kurodahan Press (primarily non-horror)
- L&J Publishing (self-publishing)
- L&L Dreamspell (primarily non-horror)
- Lachesis Publishing (primarily non-horror)
- Late Nite Books (self-publishing)
- Layman Books (self-publishing)
- Lovecraft Press (dormant)
- Magus Press (dormant)
- Merry Blacksmith Press (primarily non-horror)
- Midnight House (and Darkside Books) (dormant)
- MonkeyBrain Books (primarily non-horror)
- Mundania Press (primarily non-horror)
- Mutation Press (primarily non-horror)
- Necro Publications and Bedlam Press (dormant)
- New Pulp Press (primarily non-horror)
- Newcon Press (primarily non-horror)
- Northern Frights Publishing (dormant)
- NP Press (self-publishing?)
- Obverse Books (primarily non-horror)
- Otherworld Publications (primarily non-horror)
- Outskirts Press (self-publishing)
- Panic Press (dormant)
- Perplexed Puffin Press (dormant)
- Pigasus Press (magazine publishers only)
- Ramble House (primarily non-horror)
- Sabledrake Enterprises (primarily non-horror)
- Salvo Press (primarily non-horror)
- Sam’s Dot Publishing (primarily non-horror)
- Samhain Publishing (primarily non-horror)
- Sapphire Publications (vanity press)
- Shadowfall Publications (self-publishing, apparently)
- Silverthought Press (primarily non-horror)
- Skull Salad Press (self-publishing)
- Sundial Press (primarily non-horror)
- Small Beer Press (primarily non-horror)
- Swimming Kangaroo Books (primarily non-horror)
- Snowbooks (primarily non-horror)
- Stonegarden Publishing (primarily non-horror and apparently vanity)
- Tachyon Publications (primarily non-horror)
- Transylvania Press (dormant)
- Tricorner Publishing (dormant?)
- Twilight Times Books (primarily non-horror)
- Underwood Books (non-horror)
- Whiskey Creek Press (primarily non-horror)
- Wild Child Publishing (primarily non-horror)
- Withersin Books (primarily non-horror)
- Woodland Press (primarily non-horror)
- Wyrm Publishing (primarily non-horror)
- Yard Dog Press (primarily non-horror)
- Zittaw Press (journal publisher only; no books)
Defunct
This list of defunct publishers is not claimed to be complete, but it does list, so far as I’m aware, the horror publishers who’ve ceased operating over the last couple of decades. The list will continue to be updated over time, and some of the publishers listed above as “dormant” will eventually be moved to this list.
- 3F Publications
- Active Bladder
- Afterbirth Books
- Alchemy Press
- American Fantasy Press
- Axolotl
- Bare Bones Press
- Baysgarth Publications
- BBR Books
- Big Engine
- BJM Press
- Bleak House
- Blindside Publishing
- Borgo
- Brimstone Press
- Broken Umbrella Press
- Caliban
- Carcosa House
- Carnifex Press
- Catalyst Press
- Chris Drumm
- Circle Myth Press
- Cohort Press
- Cosmos Books
- Crimson Altar
- Crossroads Press
- Crowswing Books
- Cyber-Psychos AOD
- Dark Harvest
- Dark Highway Press
- Dark Muse Publishing
- Dark Raptor Press
- Dark Wisdom Press
- Darkside
- DarkTales Publications
- Day Off Publications
- Deadline Press
- Dearborn Press
- Dempsey
- Design Image Group
- Doorways Publications
- Doppelganger
- Dreamhaven
- Egerton Press
- Elastic Press
- Endeavor Press
- Enigmatic Press
- Fedogan & Bremer
- Flesh & Blood Press
- Freak Press
- Full Moon Press
- G&G Books
- Ghost Story Press (and Durtro Press)
- Gryphon Publications
- Haunted Library
- Haunted Pelican Press
- Hellbound Books
- Hell’s Kitchen
- Hill House Publishers
- Hive Press
- Hooded Friar Press
- House of Dominion
- Humdrumming Books
- IFD Publishing
- Integra Press
- Jack O’ Lantern Press
- Jwindz
- Kerosina
- Leucrota Press
- Lone Wolf Publications
- Medium Rare Books
- Meisha Merlin Publishing
- Mirage Press
- MirrorDanse
- Montilla Publications
- Mystique
- Necronomicon Press
- Nocturne Press
- Nyx Publications
- Obsidian Press
- Prufrock Press
- Pumpkin Books
- Razorblade Press
- Revenant Books
- Roadkill Press
- Scream/Press
- Shadow Publishing
- Shroud Press
- Silver Lake Publishing
- Silver Scarab
- Simian Publishing
- Snuff Books
- Solitude Publications
- Space & Time Publishing
- Squane’s Press
- Starmont House
- Strange Co.
- Succubus Press
- TAL Publications
- Tanjen Ltd.
- Tattered Pages Press
- Terminal Fright Press
- Thomas Loring & Co.
- Triad
- Twilight Publishing
- Twisted Publishing
- Two Backed Books
- Undaunted Press
- Unnameable Press
- Utter Tower Books
- Vox13 Publishing
- W. Paul Ganley, Publisher
- Whispers Press
- White Noise Press
- Wild Roses Productions
- Wormhole Press
- Ziesing