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Gamut Magazine
Gamut Magazine: Issue One
Love Story, an Exorcism by Michelle E. Goldsmith
No Vacancies: The Great Hot Sauce Catastrophe of 2013 by Max Booth III
Any Corpse by Brian Evenson
Some Boys Aren’t Born They Bubble by Kaveh Abkar
Three Poems by Gretchen Oberle
Etch the Unthinkable by Kurt Fawver
Raw Bites: Bukowski in San Pedro by Keith Rawson
Sex Armageddon by Lindsay Hunter
Pete’s Lake by Judy Jordan
The Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photon Fires by Cassandra Khaw
Mother of Dragons of Chihuahuas: Potty Training by Diddle Knabb
The Cold Boy by Benjamin Percy
Four Poems by Pamela Johnson Parker
Bubblegum Man by Eric Reitan
A Skeptic’s Guide to Ghost Hunting by Lisa Morton
Ugly Things Make Good Company by Jessica Hollander
Two Poems by Simone Muench
Nava by S.B. Divya
Three Poems by Jeffrey Skinner
Stripped: A Memoir by Jacklyn Dre Marceau
No Vacancies: The Great Hot Sauce Catastrophe of 2013 by Max Booth III
Any Corpse by Brian Evenson
Some Boys Aren’t Born They Bubble by Kaveh Abkar
Three Poems by Gretchen Oberle
Etch the Unthinkable by Kurt Fawver
Raw Bites: Bukowski in San Pedro by Keith Rawson
Sex Armageddon by Lindsay Hunter
Pete’s Lake by Judy Jordan
The Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photon Fires by Cassandra Khaw
Mother of Dragons of Chihuahuas: Potty Training by Diddle Knabb
The Cold Boy by Benjamin Percy
Four Poems by Pamela Johnson Parker
Bubblegum Man by Eric Reitan
A Skeptic’s Guide to Ghost Hunting by Lisa Morton
Ugly Things Make Good Company by Jessica Hollander
Two Poems by Simone Muench
Nava by S.B. Divya
Three Poems by Jeffrey Skinner
Stripped: A Memoir by Jacklyn Dre Marceau
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First published January 1, 2017
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About the author
Richard Thomas
102 books709 followersRichard Thomas is the award-winning author of nine books: four novels—Incarnate (Podium), Disintegration and Breaker (Penguin Random House Alibi), and Transubstantiate (Otherworld Publications); four short story collections—Spontaneous Human Combustion (Turner Publishing—Bram Stoker finalist), Tribulations (Cemetery Dance), Staring Into the Abyss (Kraken Press), and Herniated Roots (Snubnose Press); as well as one novella of The Soul Standard (Dzanc Books). His over 175 stories in print include The Best Horror of the Year (Volume Eleven), Cemetery Dance (twice), Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders (Bram Stoker Award winner), The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors (Shirley Jackson Award winner), Lightspeed, PANK, storySouth, Gargoyle, Weird Fiction Review, Midwestern Gothic, Shallow Creek, The Seven Deadliest, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Qualia Nous, Chiral Mad (numbers 2-4), PRISMS, Pantheon, and Shivers VI. He has won contests at ChiZine and One Buck Horror, has received five Pushcart Prize nominations, and has been long-listed for Best Horror of the Year seven times. He was also the editor of four anthologies: The New Black and Exigencies (Dark House Press), The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers (Black Lawrence Press) and Burnt Tongues (Medallion Press) with Chuck Palahniuk. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker (twice), Shirley Jackson, Thriller, and Audie awards. In his spare time he is a columnist at Lit Reactor. He was the Editor-in-Chief at Dark House Press and Gamut Magazine. His agent is Paula Munier at Talcott Notch. For more information visit www.whatdoesnotkillme.com.
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June 29, 2017
An excellent magazine! I backed this as part of their Kickstarter and I have not been disappointed. Excellent short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.
June 30, 2017
Every issue of Gamut is a treat if you like stories that can be classified as horror, weird, dark fantasy, or noir / neo-noir. Two stories particularly stood out for me in this issue:
The Bubblegum Man, by Eric Reitan: This dark and almost hallucinogenic story about two siblings and what happens to them in a world full of adults who are too selfish or far-gone to take care of them, shook me. It is deeply unsettling, with a creeping, crawling sense of dread permeating every word from the first to the last paragraph. And the ending…well, let’s just say it’s one of those stories where you wish you could go back to the beginning and warn everyone involved…
Love Story, An Exorcism, by Michelle E. Goldsmith: This story captures the terror and pain and dependence of dysfunctional childhood friendships so well: that sense of needing someone, wanting someone to be your friend, and at the same time hating that you need them. There is terror and uncertainty here, wrapped up in pain and friendship… making for a mesmerizing story that left me with a sense of vertigo. And the ending? It made me read the story over again. Brilliant.
The Bubblegum Man, by Eric Reitan: This dark and almost hallucinogenic story about two siblings and what happens to them in a world full of adults who are too selfish or far-gone to take care of them, shook me. It is deeply unsettling, with a creeping, crawling sense of dread permeating every word from the first to the last paragraph. And the ending…well, let’s just say it’s one of those stories where you wish you could go back to the beginning and warn everyone involved…
Love Story, An Exorcism, by Michelle E. Goldsmith: This story captures the terror and pain and dependence of dysfunctional childhood friendships so well: that sense of needing someone, wanting someone to be your friend, and at the same time hating that you need them. There is terror and uncertainty here, wrapped up in pain and friendship… making for a mesmerizing story that left me with a sense of vertigo. And the ending? It made me read the story over again. Brilliant.
December 29, 2018
As the title suggests, Gamut Magazine's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry covers a lot of ground within the realms of literary dark fiction. You'll find everything from science fiction to memoir.
Some of the works are funny, some are delightfully strange, some are scary, but all of them hold a darkness that is always thoughtful and never veers into sensationalized edginess or dry, opaque navel-gazing. And as someone who likes both literary and dark fiction, I enjoyed an impressive percentage of this first issue.
Some of the standout stories for me were:
Love Story, an Exorcism by Michelle E. Goldsmith
No Vacancies by Max Booth
Sex Armageddon by Lindsay Hunter
The Cold Boy by Benjamin Percy
The Bubblegum Man by Eric Reitan
Stripped: A Memoir by Jacklyn Dre Marceau
But even the stories that didn't grab me as much were clearly well-crafted and engaging. I could have reread each one half a dozen times and gotten new insights each round. I'll admit to being one of those people who just never acquired a taste for poetry, but to Gamut's credit, it got me to read some of the poetry, and stories that I normally would have avoided.
All of that said, this is a great collection for readers who enjoy unique, well-crafted dark fiction, and who might be looking to broaden their exposure to different literary genres, fiction sub-genres, and authors.
Some of the works are funny, some are delightfully strange, some are scary, but all of them hold a darkness that is always thoughtful and never veers into sensationalized edginess or dry, opaque navel-gazing. And as someone who likes both literary and dark fiction, I enjoyed an impressive percentage of this first issue.
Some of the standout stories for me were:
Love Story, an Exorcism by Michelle E. Goldsmith
No Vacancies by Max Booth
Sex Armageddon by Lindsay Hunter
The Cold Boy by Benjamin Percy
The Bubblegum Man by Eric Reitan
Stripped: A Memoir by Jacklyn Dre Marceau
But even the stories that didn't grab me as much were clearly well-crafted and engaging. I could have reread each one half a dozen times and gotten new insights each round. I'll admit to being one of those people who just never acquired a taste for poetry, but to Gamut's credit, it got me to read some of the poetry, and stories that I normally would have avoided.
All of that said, this is a great collection for readers who enjoy unique, well-crafted dark fiction, and who might be looking to broaden their exposure to different literary genres, fiction sub-genres, and authors.
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