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Issue 74 (November 2018) Nightmare Magazine
by John Joseph Adams
Part 74 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
This month, we have an original novelette from Usman Malik ("Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung") that we'll be serializing over two weeks. Our reprints are by Carole Johnstone ("Better You Believe") and Lucy Taylor ("Nikishi"). In the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," A.C. Wise examines the roles mothers play in horror. Plus, we have an author spotlight with Usman Malik and a book review from Terence Taylor.
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Issue 76 (January 2019) Nightmare Magazine
by John Joseph Adams
Part 76 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
We're kicking off the new year with a new dark fantasy story from Natalia Theodoridou ("What it Sounds Like When You Fall")-and trust me, you've never seen angels like these before. Vajra Chandrasekera brings us our second original, "On the Origin of Species," a story that will make you reconsider how you feel about the spare change in your wallet. Our reprints this month are by Paul Tremblay ("Headstone in Your Pocket") and Laura Blackwell ("Bitter Perfume"). In the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," Cadwell Turnbull writes about the real monsters in our world. Plus, we have author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with cartoonist and writer Emil Ferris.
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Issue 78 (March 2019) Nightmare Magazine
by John Joseph Adams
Part 78 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
This month, we have a new short story from Cadwell Turnbull: "All the Hidden Places," which is about life after a particularly monstrous apocalypse. Adam-Troy Castro takes us into the near future in his new short "Example," which looks at a dark change to the corrections system. We also have terrific reprints by Kaaron Warren ("Bridge of Sighs") and Seanan McGuire ("Carry On"). In our column on horror, "The H Word," writer Nibedita Sen writes about the body horror of pregnancy. Plus, we have author spotlights with our authors, and a book review from Terence Taylor.
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Issue 79 (April 2019) Nightmare Magazine
by John Joseph Adams
Part 79 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
Our first new original short is from Mari Ness: "The Girl and the House." It's a story guaranteed to make you think differently about gothic novels. Dennis E. Staples gives us a most unusual heart condition in his new short story "The One You Feed." We also have reprints by Priya Sharma ("The Ballad of Boomtown") and Stephen Gallagher ("Shepherds' Business"). Kevin J. Anderson talks about the marriage between humor and horror in the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word." We also have author spotlights with our authors, and a media review from Adam-Troy Castro.
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Issue 80 (May 2019) Nightmare Magazine
by John Joseph Adams
Part 80 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
This month, Mimi Mondal plays with a classic Bengali trope about ghosts in her new short story "Malotibala Printing Press." Remember being in school and writing bibliographies for your papers? Well, Nibedita Sen spins that academic exercise into true horror in her new short "Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island." We also have some nightmarish reprints by Micah Dean Hick ("The Deer Boy") and Philip Fracassi ("Fail-Safe"). Writer, podcaster, and all-around geek Aaron Duran brings us the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word." Of course, we have author spotlights with our authors, and we also have a feature interview with Gabino Iglesias.
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Issue 81 (June 2019) Nightmare Magazine
by John Joseph Adams
Part 81 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
One of the things we believe here at NIGHTMARE is that stories have a tremendous power. They can help us explore new ideas. They can inspire us, and in terrible situations, they can encourage and even comfort us. This month, original story "The Night Princes" (from Megan Arkenberg) takes us to a war zone, where a potter and a group of scared children spend a long night telling stories. In her new story "The Taurids Branch," Alanna J. Faelan also tackles the way we use stories in hard times, exploring the nature of truth and lies in a terrifying apocalypse. We also have reprints from Laird Barron ("In a Cavern, In a Canyon") and Gary McMahon ("Strange Scenes from an Unfinished Film"). Our nonfiction team brings us the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," with author Christopher Golden digging into the dark connections between archaeology and horror. Plus, we've got author spotlights with our authors, and book reviews from Terence Taylor.
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Issue 82 (July 2019) Nightmare Magazine
by John Joseph Adams
Part 82 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
If you're the outdoorsy type, our new short story by Simon Strantzas, "Antripuu," might make your next adventure a little more terrifying. We apologize if you're too frightened to enjoy that hike or camping trip! Our other original short story, "No Other Life," by Isabel Cañas, should please both lovers of medieval history and fans of vampire lore. We also have reprints by Seanan McGuire ("Threnody for Little Girl, with Tuna, at the End of the World") and Cody Goodfellow ("At the Riding School"). In the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," Kaaron Warren looks into the weird and disturbing world of ghost photography. We also have author spotlights with our authors, and a book review from Adam-Troy Castro.
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Issue 83 (August 2019) Nightmare Magazine
by John Joseph Adams
Part 83 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
Every society has its rites of passage. In this month's first original short, Kurt Fawver takes us into one town's terrifying entry to adulthood: "The Bleeding Maze." Our other original story, "The Skin of a Teenage Boy is Not Alive," by Senaa Ahmad, explores the effects of demonic possession. We also have reprints from Amanda Downum ("Spore") and Richard Gavin ("The Word-Made Flesh"). In the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," Darcie Little Badger talks about the differences between jump scares and dread. We also have author spotlights with our authors, and an interview with author Nathan Ballingrud.
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Issue 84 (September 2019) Nightmare Magazine
by John Joseph Adams
Part 84 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
Welcome to issue eighty-four of NIGHTMARE! This month we have a new short horror story from Ray Nayler ("Beyond the High Altar") that will take us into the cold peaks of nineteenth century Afghanistan and leave us with chills. Merc Fenn Wolfmoor's new short, "Sweet Dreams are Made of You," spins obsession and video games into an unsettling read. We also have reprints by Nina Allan ("The Tiger") and Letitia Trent ("Wilderness"). If you're starting to plan your Halloween adventures, Lisa Morton talks about extreme haunts in the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word." Plus we have author spotlights with our authors, and book reviews from Terence Taylor.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 85 (October 2019)
by John Joseph Adams
Part 85 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
Welcome to issue eighty-five of NIGHTMARE--and happy October! Every month is a great month to seek out literary scares, but an October horror story is just a little sweeter than usual. If you loved the SCREAM franchise, our new original short from Carlie St. George ("Some Kind of Blood-Soaked Future") is going to tickle your terror bone. It's the story of a final girl who gives up running away--and starts fighting back. In Rich Larson's new short ("Growing and Growing"), two men find an abandoned baby and try to help the sweet little thing. What could possibly go wrong? Our reprints this month come from horror icons Nathan Ballingrud ("The Maw") and Gemma Files ("Grave Goods"). In the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," Benjamin Percy talks about building the skeleton of a horror story. Plus we have author spotlights with our authors and a movie review from Adam-Troy Castro.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 87 (December 2019)
by John Joseph Adams
Part 87 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.Welcome to issue eighty-seven of NIGHTMARE! It's turning into winter now, so we're really excited about "Methods of Ascension," a new short story from Dan Stintzi that will take you out in the snow and make you wish you were just freezing to death. In our second original short,"Dead Worms, Dangling," Joanna Parypinski takes us someplace a bit warmer: the local fishing hole. But don't expect your ordinary fishing story--this is Nightmare Magazine, after all. Our reprints this month are from Siobhan Carroll ("Nesters") and Kurt Fawver ("The Myth of You"). In the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," author Stephen Graham Jones talks about how endings work in this genre. Terence Taylor has reviewed some new fiction for us, and of course, we have author spotlights with our authors.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 89 (February 2020)
by John Joseph Adams
Part 89 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
Welcome to issue eighty-nine of NIGHTMARE! Who would have thought reading survey results could be so terrifying? Of course Adam-Troy Castro finds a way--you'll have to check out his latest original short ("Today's Question of the Day in Waverly, Ohio") to find out just how he does it. If you're a parent, 'Pemi Aguda's new short ("Things Boys Do"), will tap into some of your most uncomfortable, late night feelings. And don't worry: if you're not a parent, you'll still be creeped out! We also have reprints by Eden Royce ("Sweetgrass Blood") and Orrin Grey ("No Exit"). Writer Nino Cipri talks about hauntings and their connection to trauma in the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word." Plus we have author spotlights with our authors and a feature interview with Nicole Cushing.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 94 (July 2020)
by John Joseph Adams
Part 94 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
Welcome to issue ninety-four of NIGHTMARE! This month, Carlie St. George spins us a new story of ghosts, trauma, and life in California: "Spider Season, Fire Season." Adam R. Shannon's story "We Came Home from Hunting Mushrooms" uses an extremely strange phenomenon to talk about how our minds cope with loss. We also have reprints by Joe R. Lansdale ("The Folding Man") and Ama Patterson ("Hussy Strutt"). On the nonfiction side of things, Brian Evenson has written the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word." Our staff brings us author spotlights with our authors, and we have a book review from Adam-Troy Castro. Plus our ebook readers are being treated to an excerpt of Keith Rosson's new novel, ROAD SEVEN.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 95 (August 2020)
by John Joseph Adams
Part 95 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue ninety-five of NIGHTMARE! This month, Claire Wrenwood brings us "Dead Girls Have No Names," a deeply unhappy story of a mother's vengeance sewn into flesh. We've got a new short by Vajra Chandrasekera: "Redder," a story of blood and pain written across generations. We also have reprints by Adam-Troy Castro ("The Hour in Between") and Livia Llewellyn ("Yours Is the Right to Begin"). In "The H Word," our column on horror, author Tim Waggoner talks about the irrational and its role in the genre. Plus our staff brings us author spotlights with our authors, and we have a feature interview with author (and former Nightmare reprints editor!) John Langan.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 96 (September 2020)
by John Joseph Adams
Part 96 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.Welcome to issue ninety-six of NIGHTMARE! Our original fiction this month is deeply grounded in place. We're taking you on a witchy trip to the prairie in Ray Nayler's new story "Outside of Omaha," and we let Sonya Taaffe immerse us in the canals of Boston in "Tea with the Earl of Twilight." Our reprints are from Kivel Carson ("The Night Has No Eyes") and Gary McMahon ("My Boy Builds Coffins"). On the nonfiction front, Suyi Davies Okungbowa talks about the differences between Nigerian and American horror in our "The H Word" column. Plus, Terence Taylor reviews some excellent new reads, and of course we have author spotlights with our authors. Our ebook readers will enjoy an excerpt from the reissue of Kathe Koja's classic novel, THE CIPHER.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 98 (November 2020)
by John Joseph Adams
Part 98 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
Welcome to issue ninety-eight of NIGHTMARE! Our first story this month is a story of school bullies and dark magic: "Tiger's Feast," from K.T. Bryski. Kurt Fawver also takes us back to school in his unsettling tale "Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1." Will be a quiz at the end of the story? You better hope not! We also have reprints by P. Djeli Clark ("Night Doctors") and Thana Niveau ("White Mare"). In the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," Octavia Cade talks about women and haunted houses. Our nonfiction team brings us author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with Alma Katsu.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 99 (December 2020)
by John Joseph Adams
Part 99 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue ninety-nine of NIGHTMARE! This month, our original shorts circle around the theme of sisters. Our first piece is a spooky little story of truly missing people-"The Book of Drowned Sisters," from Caspian Gray. Angela Slatter gives us a dark tale of family and revenge in "The Wrong Girl." We also have reprints by Stephen Graham Jones ("The Ones Who Got Away") and Nicholas Royle ("The Obscure Bird"). The latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," features an unsettling essay from J.B. Toner that explores what it's like to write about demons. We also have author spotlights with our authors, and some movie reviews from Adam-Troy Castro.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 102 (March 2021)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 102 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue one hundred and two of NIGHTMARE! This month we have original short fiction from Woody Dismukes ("A Cast of Liches") and Joanna Parypinski ("It Accumulates"). "The Horror Lab" includes a flash story by Michael Kelly ("That Which Crawls from Dark Soil") and a poem by Meg Elison ("Modern Promethea"). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a media review.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 107 (August 2021)
Horror Dark Fantasy
by Various Authors
Part 107 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue one hundred and seven of NIGHTMARE! This month, we have original short fiction from Ally Wilkes ("Where Things Fall From The Sky") and B. Narr ("Cadaver Dogs"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story ("Now Will You Listen") from Osahon Ize-Iyamu and a creative nonfiction essay ("Forensic Analysis of a Body, Still Warm") from P. L. Watts. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with Zin Rocklyn. It's another great issue, so be sure to check it out. And while you're at it, tell a friend about NIGHTMARE.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 109 (October 2021)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 109 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue one hundred and nine of NIGHTMARE! This month we have original short fiction from WC Dunlap ("Caw") and Jon Padgett ("Flight 389"). Our Horror Lab originals include a poem ("Every Night and All") from Sonya Taaffe and a flash story ("I Summon You") from Dale Bailey. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a book review from Terence Taylor. It's another great issue, so be sure to check it out. And while you're at it, tell a friend about NIGHTMARE.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 110 (November 2021)
by Various Authors
Part 110 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue 110 of NIGHTMARE! This month, we have original short fiction from Adam-Troy Castro ("Glimpses in Amber") and Julianna Baggott ("Inkmorphia"). Our Horror Lab originals include a poem ("Crossroads") from Tiffany Morris and a flash story ("Murder Tongue") from Jayaprakash Satyamurthy. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with horror scholars Lisa Kroger and Melanie Anderson.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 117 (June 2022)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 117 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue 117 of NIGHTMARE! The last few summers here in Oregon have been pretty lousy. We've had wildfires, riots, threats against our governor's life, and of course, a nightmarish heat dome that killed seventy people here in Portland. For those of us who once enjoyed summer for outdoor adventures, berry-picking, and Vitamin D production, summer has been transformed into a horror villain-something to be dreaded like a monster with a ninety-day lifespan. It seems appropriate, then, that this month's theme is monsters. Not just any kind of monsters, but Unexpected Monsters. Each of our offerings in this issue features a villain or antagonistic force that is a little . . . odd. Alex Saint-Widow has written a post-apocalyptic short story from called "The Last of the Juggalos" which includes a rapping carny set on tormenting the narrator. In his story "Dr. Wasp and Hornet Holmes," Lavie Tidhar has moved 221 B Baker Street into a wasp's nest, where biology has created an unpleasant antagonist for the world's foremost consulting detective. Even our Horror Lab micro-pieces have gotten in on the action-they're both about re-envisioning what makes a monster. Isabel Canas's new flash story ("There Are No Monsters on Rancho Buenavista") reframes a classic Mexican folktale, and Maria Zoccola's poem "warming" is about the nasty creatures currently threatening the future of our planet (and making our summers so miserable). The monsters don't even stop in our nonfiction offerings! Adam-Troy Castro returns to review a novel about filming Frankenstein's monster, and Daniel David Froid discusses devils in his essay for The H Word. Luckily, we also have spotlight interviews with our fiction writers, who are most decidedly not monsters, not even unexpected ones.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 119 (August 2022)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 119 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue 119 of NIGHTMARE! Our first story in this month's issue is "Every Atom Belonging to Me as Good Belongs to You," by Endria Isa Richardson. (Fans of Walt Whitman will recognize the title as a quote from "Song of Myself.") It's a terrifying story about complications wrought by climate change, but it's also a touching exploration of the meaning of family. Just as importantly, it's a story about No Easy Answers-the theme of this month's issue. Adam-Troy Castro returns to our pages with a blast of body horror in his new short, "The Arm Ouroboros." Mel Kassel brings us a flash story about pettiness and ghosts: "Skitterdead." And in his poem "Around the Corners," Jarod K. Anderson explores the labyrinth of life with depression. To lighten up the mood, horror scholar Melanie R. Anderson delves into the world of fungi in her essay for The H Word column. Our staff writers interview the authors of our short fiction, and Gordon B. White returns with an exciting long-form interview with rising star Cynthia Pelayo.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 120 (September 2022)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 120 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue 120 of NIGHTMARE! This issue is devoted to the feeling of discovering a slug in one's bed, or stepping barefooted on a small tarantula, or emptying the cereal box only to discover a pantry moth larva creeping over the last bran flake. It's the "Unpleasant Discoveries" issue, and every story has something nasty in store for you. Take Clara Madrigano's lovely "The Gold Coin." You'd think finding a gold coin on the floor of your best friend's house would be a real treat, wouldn't you? Luckily for us, this story finds a way to make it awful. Kiera Lesley's epistolary story "Concerning the Upstairs Bathroom" strips the joy out of a new home purchase, and our flash piece, "A Girl of Nails and Teeth," by Hannah Yang, makes parenting particularly unpleasant. I won't go into detail about how a trip to the lake can be spoiled, but the beautiful language of Corey Niles's poem "much to be mourned" can't obscure an extremely gross and melancholy experience. If you're ready to be horrified, revolted, and generally miserable, our writers have you covered. But our nonfiction team is a bit cheerier. Adam-Troy Castro has shared an excellent film and a good book for you to enjoy, and our author spotlight team has explored the more human motives of our short fiction authors. Author and screenwriter Brian McAuley has also tapped into the nicer side of life in his essay for The H Word column, which discusses the way we horror fans love to share our favorite works.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 121 (October 2022)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 121 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.Welcome to issue 121 of NIGHTMARE! One of the hardest things about writing horror is that everyone is frightened of very different things. For one person, the sight of a spider will send them running screaming, while someone else will launch into a long discussion of the environmental benefits of arachnids. Clowns terrify some, while others enjoy their fanciful makeup and oversized shoes. We all feel fear, but we each have our own triggers and responses to it. The job of a horror writer is to so deeply immerse the reader in the story that the reader fully understands the responses and fears of the characters. The stories and poetry in this issue are about those personal fears and responses. The disagreeable and frightening things inside this issue might not trouble you, but they have deep meaning for the narrators. We start with a new short story from A.C. Wise: "Sharp Things, Killing Things." If you grew up in a small town, you will understand the narrators of this story, but even if you didn't, you will understand their fear and despair. In "The Ghost Eaters," Spencer Ellsworth crafts a tale from the perspective of a dog so good, they've kept working long after death. It would be adorable if it weren't for the things that come after ghosts-even the good ones. In the Horror Lab, Carlie St. George has a flash story ("Tiny Little Wounds") about exorcism and self-mutilation. Okwudili Nebeolisa is our poet this month, and he's also tackling the subject of exorcism in his very unsettling poem "Ritual." Our H Word column features an essay by Raja Abu Kasm about the way fictional lycanthropes have helped him live with bipolar disorder. Terence Taylor has reviewed some intriguing new novels, and of course, our spotlight interviewing team sat down with our short fiction writers for an insightful couple of mini interviews.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 123 (December 2022)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 123 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue 123 of NIGHTMARE! Our short stories this month revolve around the home. We kick off the month with a zombie-meets-haunted-house story that will make you want to either deep-clean your house or burn it down: "Break the Skin if You Have To," by writing trio Emma Osborne, Cadwell Turnbull, and Jess Essey. Mari Ness brings us a sadder story of life indoors in her unsettling tale "Wallers." Our Horror Lab originals include "Three Symptoms of a Disaster," a poem of grief and catastrophe from Angela Liu. Chris DiLeo shares his unsettling experiences with the death of loved ones in his micro personal essay "Still Breathing." As for our nonfiction, Adam-Troy Castro recommends a book and a movie to enjoy while you're staying close to the fireplace, while Eric Raglin talks about heavy metal that scares in his "The H Word" essay. And of course we have author spotlight interviews with our short fiction writers to help you see what makes them tick. Plus, our ebook readers will also enjoy an excerpt from Erika T. Wurth's novel, White Horse.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 128 (May 2023)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 128 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue 128 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Keith Rosson ("Primal Slap") and Elena Sichrovsky ("Goodnight Virginia Bluebells"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story ("Nine Lies You Tell Yourself About Ghost Hunting") from Aimee Picchi and a poem ("We Are Always Walking on Dead Things") from Emily Ruth Verona. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with editor and reviewer Sadie Hartmann.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 131 (August 2023)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 131 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to Issue #131 of NIGHTMARE! This month, we have original short fiction from Nuzo Onoh ("Oyili") and J. Choe ("The Feed"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story ("Five Things That Go Through Your Mind After the Masked Killer Decapitates You With an Axe and Your Still-Living Head Has a Few Seconds of Consciousness Left to Gaze at Your Twitching Body") from Adam-Troy Castro and a poem ("Tropical Fish") from Mark Alpert. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a book discussion from screenwriter and author Jamie Flanagan.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 133 (October 2023)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 133 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to Issue #133 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Rachael K. Jones ("The Sound of Children Screaming") and David Janisch ("The Cello in the Cell"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story ("Clown Town") from Dan Stout and a poem ("when you see the dead") from Frances Ngo. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and an interview with Keith Rosson. Plus, our ebook readers will be treated to a look at the foreword to OUT THERE SCREAMING: AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW BLACK HORROR edited by Jordan Peele (and our own John Joseph Adams).
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 137 (February 2024)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 137 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue #136 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from George Sandison ("The Cut Cares Not for the Flesh") and H.B. Menendez ("Preamble to the Death of a Small God"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story ("First Girls") from Jessica Luke Garcia and a poem ("The Mourning of Sam Lillow, the Gardener") from Adriana C. Grigore. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a book discussion from Sunny Moraine.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 138 (March 2024)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 138 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue #138 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Keith Rosson ("Second Deaths") and Fatima Taqvi ("Our Very Best Selves!"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story ("A Guide to Camping in the Forest") from Oyedotun Damilola Muees and a poem ("The Let Go") from E. Catherine Tobler. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and Adam-Troy Castro returns with some book recommendations.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 141 (June 2024)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 141 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue #141 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Manish Melwani ("MAMMOTH") and Ally Wilkes ("Billy Blue"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story ("The Dark Devices") from Bruce McAllister and a poem ("Penis Secrets of the Anunnaki") from Sonya Taaffe. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a book review from Adam-Troy Castro.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 144 (September 2024)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 144 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue #144 of NIGHTMARE! We have a very ghostly issue featuring original short fiction from Russell Nichols ("What Happened to the Crooners") and Sam W. Pisciotta ("House of the Hidden Moon"). Our Horror Lab originals include a creative essay ("I Am One of Bluebeard's Dead Wives") from Bella D. Bonne and a poem ("A Long Time Afterward") from Sonya Taaffe. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a film review by Adam-Troy Castro.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 153 (June 2025)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 153 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.Welcome to issue #153 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Ben Peak ("Edgar Addison the Author of Devorer (1862 - 1933)") and Lindz McLeod ("Here I Go Again"). Our Horror Lab originals include a poem ("Wet Dollars") from Daniel Oluremi and a flash ("Eleven Songs for Another Lover") from V.H. Chen. Maria Alexander joins us for the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors. We also have Adam-Troy Castro reviewing the hit film SINNERS.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 154 (July 2025)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part 154 of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.Welcome to issue #154 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Kristi DeMeester ("Asking For It") and Anne Mai Yee Jansen ("Hungry Ghosting"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash piece ("The Hearth") from Benjamin Percy and a poem ("The Neighbor's Cat") from Kevin Varghese. For nonfiction, we'll be featuring an interview with film director Kevin Greutert. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 150 (March 2025)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.Welcome to issue #150 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Lincoln Michel ("The Tugwort") and Ana Hurtado ("Pezcara"). Our Horror Lab originals include a poem ("Touch This Cancer, It Probably Won't Bite") from Josh Pearce and flash fiction ("sharp house") from Samir Sirk Morato. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a feature review by Adam-Troy Castro.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 136 (January 2024)
by Wendy N. Wagner
Part of the Nightmare Magazine series
“Nightmare” is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue #135 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from R.A. Busby ("Ten Thousand Crawling Children") and Andrew Snover ("The Forgetter"). Our Horror Lab originals include a creative essay ("Chase Scene") from Megan Kiekel Anderson and a poem ("In Our Bodies, There Is Heat") from Somto Ihezue. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with author V. Castro.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 100 (January 2021)
by John Joseph Adams
Part of the Nightmare Magazine series
“Nightmare” is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue one hundred of Nightmare! It feels like a milestone of terror-and we couldn't have made it without the support of all our supremely talented writers-and dedicated and loyal readers like you. To celebrate, this issue is overflowing with original fiction from some of our most stalwart contributors over the years. Stephen Graham Jones commits the perfect-or at least a perfectly terrifying-crime in his new short "How to Break into a Hotel Room." Adam-Troy Castro reports from the set of an unsettling television show in "Rotten Little Town: An Oral History." If you're hungry for a monster, Desirina Boskovich is glad to oblige with her story "I Let You Out." Our ebook readers will also enjoy several bonus stories in this super-sized extravaganza: A tale of a viral threat from Sam J. Miller ("Darkness, Metastatic") and a modern, dark fairy tale from Maria Dahvana Headley ("Wolfsbane"). Our reprints this month include a fantastic scare from Tananarive Due ("Last Stop on Route Nine"), Gemma Files ("Thin Cold Hands"), Carmen Maria Machado ("The Things Eric Eats Before He Eats Himself"), Victor LaValle ("Up From Slavery"), and Laird Barron ("Jaws of Saturn"). But wait, there's more! Our nonfiction team has also gone the extra mile, for Team Nightmare E. Orrin Grey returns to "The H Word" with an essay about the way the Vietnam War changed the state of horror. Plus, we have author spotlights with our authors, a book review from Terence Taylor, and a roundtable interview with your humble (outgoing) editor and our amazing (incoming) editor Wendy N. Wagner.
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 151 (April 2025)
by John Joseph Adams
Part of the Nightmare Magazine series
NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.Welcome to issue #151 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Nuzo Onoh ("The Witch-Doctor's Revenge") and Neal Auch ("Glory Hole"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash piece ("A Girl Goes on a Date Alone at Night") from Cynthia Gomez and a poem ("Old Brooklyn Magic") from Ian Li. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with Nat Cassidy.
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