#mswl: 2024 Manuscript Wish List
Wild Hunts Books will reopen to unagented submissions later in 2024 (we’re always open to hearing from agents). To make the process less opaque, the editor is sharing her wish list. This includes comparable book titles, films and vibes to give authors and agents an idea of the kind of work WHB plans for its future list.
We are a publisher of fine literary novels that play with darker themes, structures, expectations and genres. We focus more on novels and novellas that could be shelved in literary fiction than solely commercial but we do also love books that can bend into both. We aren’t a good fit for manuscripts that are aimed at YA/Children, poetry, high fantasy and pure genre. At this time, we aren’t seeking short story collections.
Please note that this is not an exhaustive list and should only serve as reference. If you want to read more about what it’s like to publish with us, head over here.
BOOKS
The Last House on Needless Street
Sundial
Follow Me to Ground
Our Wives Under the Sea
The Harpy
Piranesi
Just Like Home
Death of a Bookseller
Starve Acre
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Boy Parts
Penance
The End of the End of Everything
DEAD AUTHORS
Edgar Allan Poe
Shirley Jackson
Ambrose Bierce
Jorge Luis Borges
Italo Calvino
GENRE VIBES
Unconventional locked rooms
Modern day set Gothic stories
Unexpected ghost stories
Literary novel that upends genre expectations
Unreliable POVs
FILMS
Saltburn
The Witch
The films of Yorgos Lanthimos
Don’t Look Now
The Eternal Daughter
Suspiria (2018)