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The AUGUST issue of 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗨𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗭𝗜𝗡𝗘 just dropped! From a mother’s portal to the supernatural to the phonebook of the paranormal, lose all sense of reality in 𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗨𝗘 𝟴. Read it ➡ bit.ly/3SdAEP9 📖 If you have yet to subscribe, subscriptions are only $5.50/month. Cover art by Daniele Serra

The September issue of 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗨𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗭𝗜𝗡𝗘 is here! Sci-fi fashion, circus horrors, and collapsing mines—there’s a lot of depth and darkness within 𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗨𝗘 𝟵. Read it ➡ bit.ly/3SdAEP9 Cover art by Daniele Serra

A heartfelt thank you to each and every one of you. And after December…we’ll see you on the other side 💀 —The Gamut Team

𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗠 𝗕𝗢𝗬𝗟𝗘 has joined 𝟭𝟮𝟬 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗙𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝗿𝗮! As the author of eight books set in and around the southern Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend, where he was born and raised, William’s most recent novel is Saint of the Narrows Street, available in February 2025 from Soho Crime. His books have been nominated for the Hammett Prize, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award in the UK, and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France, and they have been included on best-of lists in Washington Post, CrimeReads, and more. To read @wmboyle4’s short story and others exploring the Alternative Era of music, 𝗣𝗥𝗘-𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 #120MurderBook now at 33% off ➡️ bit.ly/49DzUtt As a pre-order 𝗕𝗢𝗡𝗨𝗦, you’ll also receive an exclusive digital short story by anthology editor @NMamatas!

𝗠𝗘𝗚 𝗚𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗥 has joined 𝟭𝟮𝟬 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗙𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝗿𝗮! The #1 New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels, Meg’s thrillers have won the Edgar Award and been summer reading picks by The Today Show and O, the Oprah magazine. In August 2022 Heat 2, co-authored with Michael Mann, debuted at #1 on the New York Times best seller list. A former lawyer, two-time president of Mystery Writers of America, and three-time Jeopardy! champion, Gardiner lives in Austin. To read @MegGardiner1’s short story, “All My Life” and others exploring the Alternative Era of music, 𝗣𝗥𝗘-𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 #120MurderBook now at 33% off ➡️ bit.ly/49DzUtt As a pre-order 𝗕𝗢𝗡𝗨𝗦, you’ll also receive an exclusive digital short story by anthology editor @NMamatas!

Got any DARK SPECULATIVE fiction stories or non-fiction essays exploring the territory? 💀 Gamut Magazine’s submission period opens on 𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬, 𝗦𝗘𝗣𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝟭 @ 𝟭𝟮:𝟬𝟭𝗔𝗧 𝗖𝗧! See the submission details ➡️ bit.ly/4dbhdjY ⭐ As a reminder, please read ALL of the guidelines for submitting so we can consider your work—thank you!

𝗣𝗔𝗨𝗟 𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗟𝗔𝗬 has joined 𝟭𝟮𝟬 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗙𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝗿𝗮! @PaulGTremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book Awards and is the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie, The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film Knock at the Cabin. He has been teaching high school math for a long, long, time, and he lives outside Boston with his family. To read Paul’s short story and others exploring the Alternative Era of music, 𝗣𝗥𝗘-𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 #120MurderBook now at 33% off ➡️ bit.ly/49DzUtt As a pre-order 𝗕𝗢𝗡𝗨𝗦, you’ll also receive an exclusive digital short story by anthology editor @NMamatas!

“Bright Lights, Dark Millenium” by E. C. Dorgan in Issue 7 of Gamut Magazine got some love over at @reactormag: “What I love about this story is that it isn’t an Eldritch being dark fantasy but also a commentary on colonialism, assimilation (particularly with regards to Indigenous identities), and the way we can eagerly participate in our own cultural destruction without necessarily realizing it." Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/3WQ2unc reactormag.com/must-read-sho…

𝗖𝗬𝗔𝗡 𝗞𝗔𝗧𝗭 will be making their debut in 𝟭𝟮𝟬 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗙𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝗿𝗮! A criminal QTPOC elder living in Berlin, Germany, Cyan was born and raised in Alaska—advocating for *your* right to party since 1979. They love being Arab Jewish, medically trans, and a collection of paradoxes. By day, a gothic Borg Queen; by night, an extremely sleepy kitten. In 2010, they discovered Butoh, a contemporary Japanese dance, and have since collaborated globally on performances, workshops, residencies, and films. A longtime Buddhist practitioner, their meditation/dharma study group, Weirdos Only Meditation, recently turned ten. Their private practice, The Illuminated Body, focuses on Pilates, meditation, Somatics and DBT for trauma recovery. Not buying into capitalist messaging around consume, work, repeat, you can also find them visiting friends and lovers in all four galaxy quadrants. This anthology is their debut publication! Their stories are bodycentric, often dealing with themes of otherness, neurosis/trauma, and familial structures. They're preoccupied with transformation, ontological and epistemological questioning, and the care and feeding of monsters in our personal oceans. To read Cyan’s short story and others exploring the Alternative Era of music, 𝗣𝗥𝗘-𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 #120MurderBook now at 33% off ➡️ bit.ly/49DzUtt As a pre-order 𝗕𝗢𝗡𝗨𝗦, you’ll also receive an exclusive digital short story by anthology editor @NMamatas!

Hey, writers! Do you have a dark speculative short story that explores the depths of human experience and emotion, from the unnerving to the extraordinary? 💀 Gamut Magazine’s submission period for DARK SPECULATIVE FICTION (both original stories and reprints) opens on 𝗧𝗛𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗬, 𝗔𝗨𝗚𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝟭 @ 𝟭𝟮:𝟬𝟭𝗔𝗧 𝗖𝗧. We accept poetry & non-fiction on an ongoing basis as well. See the submission details ➡️ bit.ly/4dbhdjY ⭐ As a reminder, please read ALL of the guidelines for submitting so we can consider your work—thank you!