Rob Carroll

Every story published in Dark Matter Magazine is a best-of story to us, and that's why we had to do something different when choosing stories for the magazine's first ever trade paperback anthology. Enter Dark Matter Presents Zero Dark Thirty, a curated collection of the thirty darkest stories to haunt our magazine's pages during the first two years of publication (2021-2022). These are the most depressing and deranged tales the magazine has to offer. Enter if you must, but beware. TABLE OF CONTENTS: "Potato" by Ken Altabef "Annihilate Mankind and Impress Your Friends: A Correspondence Course" by Matthew Andrew "Set for Life" by Warren Benedetto "Helter Smelter" by Mark Burnham "Declare the Typhoon's Coming" by Noah Codega "Bodhisattva from Bit" by Andy Dudak "Decommissioned" by Brittany Groves "The Liminal Men" by Thomas Ha "Recycle of Violence" by Andrew Leon Hudson "The Three Breeds of Lie" by T. M. Hurree "Scintillae" by Ariel Marken Jack "This Choir of Ghosts" by Monte Lin "Little Lives" by Patrick Lofgren "Of the Sea-Born and the Brine-Hearted" by Christine Lucas "Lady of the Dullahan" by Anna Madden "The Hottest on the Hotline" by Evan Marcroft "Storm Cellar" by Jen Marshall "A Twisted Run" by Guy McDonnell "Binge" by R. L. Meza "Finishers" by Christi Nogle "Queen of the Cloven Heart" by Hailey Piper "Rider Within" by Lowry Poletti "Cube" by Grace R. Reynolds "Her Tongue Was Weighted with Salt" by Alexandra Seidel "The Devil's Travel Agency" by Alex Sobel "Marasa, or a Withdrawal of Pure Joy for Mr. Antar" by Prashanth Srivatsa "The Ground Shook" by Roni Stinger "All the Sludge You Want to Drink" by Mary G. Thompson "This Will Be the Most Vulnerable Post I've Ever Made" by Marissa van Uden "Your Augmented Home is Now Ready" by Erich Alan Werner