May Issue of Gamut is Out!
Posted on May 1, 2024 Leave a Comment
As we get ready for May, with summer just around the corner, we have another exciting issue of Gamut to read. We have four amazing, original stories—“Red Snowdrop” by Diana Dima, which explores the disorienting loss of a loved one, and a garden with buried secrets; “The Unraveling” by Sheila Massie, where an alien message gets misunderstood, leading to surreal results; “To Hurt a Haunted House” by Stephanie M. Wytovich, a visceral tale that flips the usual haunted house story upside down; and “Be Glad, O Children” by Cormack Baldwin, a terrifying story of religion, belief, and creepy folk horror. Add to that two reprints—“Welcome to the Organ Extraction Emporium” by Alicia Hilton, a hilarious and unsettling story about body parts, fate, and desire as well as “Girl in Glass, Brightly” by Elou Carroll, an immersive dark period piece about longing and possession. I’m thrilled to announce a powerful new original essay by Poppy Z. Brite—“Redefining the Borders: My Experience of Queerness in Horror Fiction.” Such a moving essay by one of the masters of horror. We have two nonfiction reprints as well—Lindy Ryan’s fascinating article, “The Unapology of Baba Yaga,” as well as the thoroughly entertaining essay, “Alice in Wonderland is Horror, Actually” by Alex Woodroe. And finally, two intense, lyrical poems by Whittney Jones—“Wildcat Hills” and “The First Year of Marriage.” We also have amazing cover art by Orion Zangara. Something for everyone, right? I hope you enjoy this issue—tell your friends, and come back for more!
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April Issue of Gamut is LIVE!
Posted on April 2, 2024 Leave a Comment
Thrilled to have the latest issue of Gamut live now. Click over, subscribe, and support us!
Original Fiction:“The Shift” by Miel MacRae; “The Skullhole Panic” by NM Whitley; “Naglfar” by Elin Olausson; “A Voice in Winter” by Derek Alan Jones. Reprint Fiction: “In This Dress, Stitched of Anger, I Thee Wed” by Lindsey Godfrey Eccles; “Coblynau” by Catherine McCarthy; “Cire Perdue” by Ariel Marken Jack. Original Non-Fiction: “Think You Know Horror? Dead Right Might Tell You Otherwise” by Lisa Morton. Reprint Non-Fiction: “The Rue Morgue: Evolution and the Horror of Being Human” by Joseph Sale. Original Poetry: “A Girl Walks Out of a Bar” and “The Boy in the Barn, 1929” by Jessica Walsh. Art by Orion Zangara.
And don’t forget the first three issue are out as well. So many excellent stories.
New Story, “Kuebiko,” in 3LBE.
Posted on March 27, 2024 1 Comment
Excited to announce my story, “Kuebiko,” is out now in 3LBE. Pick up your copy today. https://www.3lobedmag.com/issue41
The First Review of Incarnate is From Kirkus Reviews, and It’s Great!
Posted on January 31, 2024 2 Comments
Exciting news! My first major review for Incarnate is up and it’s a great one! Over at Kirkus Reviews, they had this to say: “This is not the conventional sort of horror novel in which something monstrous intrudes upon a recognizable reality; instead, the very fabric of Thomas’ world is fragile and subject to reorganization. Fans of Brian Evenson will enjoy—and perhaps cower from—this cold-weather tale. A haunting horror novel set in a dire wasteland.”—Kirkus Reviews Click over for the full review. Out with Podium Audio in all formats on 9/10.
Cover Reveal for Incarnate!
Posted on January 9, 2024 2 Comments
I’m so excited for this COVER REVEAL for my Arctic horror, sin-eater novel, Incarnate, out in September with Podium Audio. Ebook and audiobook pre-orders are available now, with print to come. Illustration by Christina Mrozik Art. I think it’s some of my best work to date.
https://www.amazon.com/Incarnate-Novel-Richard-Thomas-ebook/dp/B0CR6S3MPG
SYNOPSIS: In a frozen tundra, a sin-eater fights for redemption and absolution as monstrous creatures ravage a community already struggling to survive.
Sebastian Pana is a sin-eater, a shaman-like figure who can absolve the dead of their transgressions before they move on to the afterlife. But when a tear in the fabric of reality allows hideous beasts to invade the small arctic town he calls home, Sebastian must wage battle with them the only way he knows how: by unleashing the power of sin itself.
Thus, the stage is set for an epic confrontation between the forces of good and evil, in which a mother monster strives to save the dying land around her—and a young Inuit boy, haunted by Sebastian’s fate, risks everything to forge a new way forward for the desperate vestiges of humanity. As an obliterating darkness descends from the frozen mountains, this profoundly redemptive tale will build toward a climactic showdown in which nature and the supernatural collide with the eternal quest for healing and forgiveness.
From an author who has been compared to Lovecraft, Bradbury, and Gaiman, Incarnate is a masterpiece of contemporary arctic horror—a dark, unsettling story told in a maximalist voice inflected with powerful notes of hope and grace.
New Story in The Off-Season
Posted on November 2, 2023 Leave a Comment
I’m thrilled to announce that my 2,016-word, one-sentence, cosmic horror story, “Sunk,” will be included in the Dark Matter Ink coastal new-weird anthology, The Off-Season, edited by Marissa van Uden. Stoked.
I Got Into Qualia Nous 2!
Posted on August 23, 2023 3 Comments
It’s official, I can announce it now—I’ve gotten into Qualia Nous 2 with my story, “Choose Your Own Demise,” co-written with Repo Kempt (an amazing author, and my arctic advisor on Incarnate). It’s a variation on a “choose-your-own-path” adventure story and it was a blast to write. With over 3,000 submissions, I’m so happy this got in. I’ve worked with Michael many times, and it’s always been a pleasure! Stoked, for sure. What a great TOC so far:
Table of Contents:
“Interstices” (found poem(s) from Vol. 1 as an intro) – Pat R. Steiner
“A Story That Must Be Read Alone but Never at Night” (short story) – Chuck Palahniuk
“Shattered in Daylight” (poem) – Linda D. Addison
“We Come Apart and Then We Arrive” (short story) – Eric LaRocca
“Here We Are” (poem) – Elizabeth Massie
“An Invitation for the Uninvited” (novelette) – Scott Edelman
“Set Me on Fire” (poem) – Cynthia Pelayo
“Twice as Many Stars” (short story) – Paul Michael Anderson
“Playground of the Gods” (poem) – Christina Sng
“The Fallen Man” (short story) – Geneve Flynn
“Lullabies of a Distant World” (poem) – Pedro Iniguez
“Other” (short story) – Gordon Linzner
“Vessel” (poem) – Lee Murray
“Come Find Me” (short story) – Zoje Stage
“Self-Discovery” (poem) – Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
“The Song of Fools” (novelette) – Patrick Freivald
“A Particle Accelerator Love Song” (poem) – Brent Baldwin
“Blue-Red-Green” (novelette) – Peter Hagelslag
“Sacrificing for the Path of Orbits” (poem) – Christopher Collingwood
“Investigations into Hypnagogia” (novelette) – Sachin Baliga
“My Memory Is as Time Is” (poem) – Mark Granger
“The Infinite Hourglass” (short story) – Kehkashan Khalid
“Common Sense, No More” (prose poem) – Maxwell I. Gold
“The Sum of Our Parts Needs Only One Heart” (short story) – Michael Gonzalez
“Alive / Real / Exists / Human” (collection of poems) – Eugen Bacon
“Bilocation in Liminal Space” (short story) – Erik Williams
“Danse Sanguinaire” (poem) – Deborah L. Davitt
“Choose Your Own Demise” (short story) – Richard Thomas & Repo Kempt
“Crazy” (poem) – Jeff Oliver
“Stuff She Put in a Box for Her New Room” (novelette) – Gary A. Braunbeck
“What Weird Weather We Had” (poem) – Josh Malerman
“Oil on Water” (short story) – Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
“Nightmare” (poem) – L. Marie Wood
“Once, I Dreamed I Was Dead” (short story) – Rebecca J. Allred
“Paranoid: A Chant” (poem) – Stephen King
“Lucid Interval” (novelette) – Michael J. Riser
“Deeply You” (poem) – Max Booth III
“The Thing That Laughs in the Dark” (short story) – Gabino Iglesias
“Some Days, Most Days” (poem) – Kaaron Warren
“Dog-Whistles” (short story) – Cody Goodfellow
“Ghost in the Machine” (poem) – Karen Poppy
“Everyday Horror” (short story) – Steve Rasnic Tem
“Me” (poem) – Jamal Hodge