About Midnight Screaming

Midnight Screaming was founded in late 2008 by its editor Kara Ferguson. In January of 2009 the first issue was released and included works by seven different authors. While our first cover was photographed by the editor, we've gone on to host several very talented digital artists and photographers from the Memphis area. While our publication is not exclusive to authors and artists from the Mid-South, we do like to support our local community when we can.

Midnight Screaming was founded on the idea that most readers don't consume just one type of fiction, and therefore a magazine shouldn't limit itself to just one genre. We envisioned a magazine where all genres could live together in peace and harmony, but you know what they say about good intentions. There is no handbook for starting a magazine, and our first year of publishing was full of lessons to be learned. One of which was that while it seemed like a good idea at the time, a multi-genre magazine is nearly impossible to market.

In January of 2010, after the publication of our fifth issue, Volume 2 Number 1, we began to reconsider the focus of Midnight Screaming. While we had some success in our first year (read: we hadn't gone bankrupt in the first six months) we were struggling with declining sales numbers and website hits. We realized there was one thing we had done consistently with Midnight Screaming, and done well: CREEPY. Odd, strange, spine tingling, unnervingly creepy. You need a niche to be marketable, and we had found ours without even realizing it.

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