Fourth Estate announces first ever horror story competition

Fourth Estate will be accepting scary story submissions until Oct. 29 (photo courtesy of hannah_horwarth/flickr).

Do you have a story you’d like to share with the rest of Mason campus that will keep them lying awake at nights, jumping at their own shadows?

Starting on Oct. 17, 2013, Fourth Estate will be searching for the most bone-chilling short stories and poems until Oct. 29 at 11:59 p.m with its Horror Story Competition. All works should be no less than 100 and no more than 1500 words in length. They will be judged based on adherence to the aforementioned guidelines, readability, and (most importantly) scariness.

There is no theme, just horror.

Winners will have their work published in our Fourth Estate Online Lifestyle section on October 31.

Please email your stories to “ghoeler@masonlive.gmu.edu“ with the subject heading “[First and Last Name] Horror Story 2013.” Please post the story in the body of the email along with your name, year, major and the title of your piece. Only one submission permitted per student.