Glitter & Mayhem

Welcome to Glitter & Mayhem, the most glamorous party in the multiverse.


Step behind the velvet rope of these fabulous Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror tales of roller rinks, nightclubs, glam aliens, party monsters, drugs, sex, glitter, and debauchery.


Dance through nightclubs, roller derby with cryptids and aliens, be seduced by otherworldly creatures, and ingest cocktails that will alter your existence forever.


Your hosts are the Hugo Award-winning editors John Klima (Electric Velocipede) and Lynne M. Thomas (Apex Magazine), and the Hugo-nominated editor Michael Damian Thomas (Apex Magazine). 


Join glittery authors Christopher Barzak (One for Sorrow) and Daryl Gregory (Pandemonium) on the dance floor, drink cocktails with Maria Dahvana Headley (Queen of Kings: A Novel of Cleopatra, the Vampire) and Tim Pratt (Marla Mason series), and skate with Seanan McGuire (InCryptid series), Diana Rowland (Kara Gillian series), and Maurice Broaddus (The Knights of Breton Court series). The fantastic Amber Benson gets the party started with her floor-rattling introduction (Calliope Reaper-Jones series).


We’re waiting. 


Table of Contents

Introduction by Amber Benson

Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster by Christopher Barzak

Apex Jump by David J. Schwartz

With Her Hundred Miles to Hell by Kat Howard

Star Dancer by Jennifer Pelland

Of Selkies, Disco Balls, and Anna Plane by Cat Rambo

Sooner Than Gold by Cory Skerry

Subterraneans by William Shunn & Laura Chavoen

The Minotaur Girls by Tansy Rayner Roberts

Unable to Reach You by Alan DeNiro

Such & Such Said to So & So by Maria Dahvana Headley

Revels in the Land of Ice by Tim Pratt

Bess, the Landlord’s Daughter, Goes for Drinks with the Green Girl by Sofia Samatar

Blood and Sequins by Diana Rowland

Two-Minute Warning by Vylar Kaftan

Inside Hides the Monster by Damien Angelica Walters (formerly known as Damien Walters Grintalis)

Bad Dream Girl by Seanan McGuire

A Hollow Play by Amal El-Mohtar

Just Another Future Song by Daryl Gregory

The Electric Spanking of the War Babies by Maurice Broaddus & Kyle S. Johnson

All That Fairy Tale Crap by Rachel Swirsky