Nightmare Magazine
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Monthly magazine of horror and dark fantasy short fiction published both online and in ebook format. Edited by @wnwagner.bsky.social.
Today definitely calls for a short, delicious stab in the heart. Luckily, we've got you covered with a new flash story by @spicycloaca.bsky.social: "sharp house." www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/shar...
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Little is more crushing than the idea that no matter what you do, you are only capable of destruction, and everyone knows it. I wanted to weave that fear into this story, and to push tenderness and vi...
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Congratulations to our wonderful writers @rabusby.bsky.social and @ravenjake.bsky.social, whose Nightmare short stories have been nominated for the Stoker award! bramstokerawards.horror.org/front-page/t...
The 2024 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot – The Bram Stoker Awards
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If your ears love horror, don't miss our latest audio releases: @stefansecho.bsky.social narrates Dan Stintzi's "God of the Black Moon" and Bruce McAllister's "The Sound a Rabbit Might Make." Good stuff -- available anywhere you devour podcasts!
This is a cool mood board for the short story up this week: "In Our Skin" by Kelsea Yu. Don't miss this cool SF horror story!!
Kelsea Yu@anovelescape.bsky.social · last yr.I made a little mood board video to go with “In Our Skin” 🖤
Need some classic body horror from our archives???
Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · last yr."The Want has me wrapped tightly in its ardor, burning away all my human qualms." MAGDALA AMYGDALA by @lucyasnyder.bsky.social Welcome to #ReadWeird Read it: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/magd... Pub'd by @nightmare-magazine.com Art by Marco Mazzoni
Not sure what this month's issue will be like? Check out the editorial by @wnwagner.bsky.social to get a taste of what's going on! www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...
Editorial: February 2025 - Nightmare Magazine
There’s a special kind of darkness in each of this issue's pieces that is made out of both our struggle to understand each other and our failures to be what other people want us to be. It’s art that f...
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February issues of @lightspeedmagazine.com, @nightmare-magazine.com, The Dark, @locusmag.bsky.social, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, @clarkesworldmagazine.com, Forever, @lunastation.bsky.social, and @smallwondersmag.com are here! weightlessbooks.com/2025/2/
"Sam met Haley at a house party in the suburbs where everyone hung out in the basement, smoking inside and listening to a band called Belladonna play songs that lasted seven minutes." Magically weird & cosmic horror from Dan Stintzi: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/god-...
God of the Black Moon - Nightmare Magazine
Sam met Haley at a house party in the suburbs where everyone hung out in the basement, smoking inside and listening to a band called Belladonna play songs that lasted seven minutes. Sam was drunk and ...
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New story day! “They Bought a House” in @nightmare-magazine.com is an unhinged haunted house set in Benin city. There are ghosts making ccoconut rice, there are people living in walls, and most importantly, there is Nothing 🤗. Read here: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/they...
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The idea for this story began in my final week at the Clarion Writers Workshop. I wanted to write a haunted house horror story using stripped language, but unsurprisingly, it became strange and detail...
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If you're like me and haunted house stories are comfort reads, you MUST read "They Bought a House" in the January @nightmare-magazine.com by @osahon4545.bsky.social www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/they...
They Bought a House - Nightmare Magazine
The idea for this story began in my final week at the Clarion Writers Workshop. I wanted to write a haunted house horror story using stripped language, but unsurprisingly, it became strange and detail...
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If you're ready for a story about demons and arranged marriage, don't miss "Karabasan," a new story up today by Leyal Hamedi! www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/kara...
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Today his family comes to formally ask my parents---my father---for my hand. They will sit in our front room, the best room, and make small talk as his mother eyes me up and down. Her razor eyes will ...
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Congratulations to everyone on the Stoker preliminary ballot! We're ecstatic for Nightmare writers @rabusby.bsky.social, @ravenjake.bsky.social, Victor Forna (listed for short fiction) and Haralambi Markov (short nonfiction). Here's where to read their works:
Before Shabbat, we can read a poem about... the Witches' Sabbath? 😛 Today on #BogiReads: "Witches' Sabbath" by Lisa M. Bradley @cafenowhere.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com August 2024! www.nightmare-magazine.com/podcast/witc...
Witches’ Sabbath - Nightmare Magazine
The rituals of witchcraft are intended to control outcomes. Being able to fly is often perceived as freedom, but it also threatens a loss of self-control. I wanted to write about the moment when dream...
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My ROBOT WIZARD ZOMBIE CRIT! newsletter has launched! Sign up for updates about @lightspeedmagazine.com & @nightmare-magazine.com, my anthologies, + my thoughts on books, short stories, TV/film, RPGs, & related subjects. Get a free ebook anthology for signing up. www.johnjosephadams.com/newsletter
The January editorial by @wnwagner.bsky.social is live today: "None of us are free agents—every last one of us is bound at some point, or many points, in a social web that can be as sticky and as unbudging as any spider’s." www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...
Editorial: January 2025 - Nightmare Magazine
None of us are free agents---every last one of us is bound at some point, or many points, in a social web that can be as sticky and as unbudging as any spider’s. The stories in this issue are about th...
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The first story of the January issue is live today -- don't miss "The Morning Room" by Katharine Tyndall! A horrible relationship and a secret beneath the house? CREEPTASTIC. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...
The Morning Room - Nightmare Magazine
In the morning room everything is bright and clean, florals and pastels. My wife says it looks tacky and childish, but after some pleading, she agrees not to touch the decorations. The faint lavender-...
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"From poetry to nonfiction to this editorial, I’d say this issue is a love song to the genre and our commitment to it." Don't miss the December editorial by @wnwagner.bsky.social. www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...
Editorial: December 2024 - Nightmare Magazine
I’ll never stop believing that being scared (while doing something as safe as reading in a comfortable chair or watching a movie on a good couch) is absolutely restorative. Not everyone liked Longlegs...
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If you missed it last Wednesday, "Amelia's Story" by Adam-Troy Castro went up on the site, and it is one weird treat! www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/amel...
Amelia’s Story - Nightmare Magazine
Early Wednesday morning, after a long weekend devoted to the search for her, twelve-year-old Amelia is spotted wandering home on the main highway out of town. She has at that point been missing since ...
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Delicious new short fiction up on the site today: "Moon Rabbit Song" by Caroline Hung. Dark fantasy time loop story? YES, PLEASE!!! www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/moon...
Moon Rabbit Song - Nightmare Magazine
The skies are a pitch-black void---cold, empty, unforgiving. Far from home, the rivers of heaven have run dry, the starlight scarce in this part of Father’s empire. Passing comets die out with a pathe...
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Hello, new followers! We're NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE and we believe horror helps people better understand & cope with the dark shit life heaps on them -- and to better celebrate the good, as well. We publish new horror & dark fantasy fiction, poetry, and insightful essays on our site every Wednesday.
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Taking Control of Your Life in Five Easy Steps - Nightmare Magazine
“Taking Control of Your Life in Five Easy Steps” is inspired by and dedicated to all the people who have tried to sell me their quick and easy surefire fixes for my mental illness. ---PHL
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My latest speculative short fiction roundup features stories from @nightmare-magazine.com @thedeadlands.com @reactorsff.bsky.social @khoreo.bsky.social @augursociety.bsky.social @reactorsff.bsky.social @bourbonpenn.bsky.social @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social and more!
My Speculative Short Fiction Roundup #9 2024
The artwork for this roundup includes a detail of the cover for The Deadlands #36 by Babar Moghal. More about the artist here: https://www...
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If you need a dark but beautiful poem this morning, do not miss out on "Sumbisori" by Jess Cho! www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/sumbi...
Sumbisori - Nightmare Magazine
“Sumbisori” refers to the peculiar exhale of the haenyeo-women divers in the Jeju Province of South Korea. When they surface, they let their breath out as a whistling sound that has always struck me a...
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Amazing wisdom from @sofiaajram.bsky.social in his essay up today: "There is solidarity in suffering. These experiences are not unique to us. With compassion and hope and the warmth of others we can come out on the other side." www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...
The H Word: The Horrors Persist But So Do We - Nightmare Magazine
Most people who are asking for recommendations for terrifying books are bound to be disappointed. Responses to these posts germinate an exhaustive discourse around the subjectivity of fear but---it’s ...
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"Cora has left her skin lying out again." From "She Sheds Her Skin, a new and delicious darkness from Raven Jakubowski, up today on the website. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/she-...
She Sheds Her Skin - Nightmare Magazine
Cora has left her skin lying out again. It’s the first thing I see when come in. Open the door, hang up my coat, kick off my heels, turn on the lamp, and there it is, slouched in the mid-century chair...
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November means DARK FANTASY over here at Nightmare. Read how editor @wnwagner.bsky.social has become a big fan of the 11th month. www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...
Editorial: November 2024 - Nightmare Magazine
November is the month Nightmare goes all-out celebrating dark fantasy. That’s right, it’s our annual all-dark-fantasy issue, but don’t worry: just because it’s extra magical doesn’t mean it’s not horr...
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#MustRead horror Monday: Lit Hub look beyond Dracula at the latent fears vampires point to, Tony Jones hones in on the horrors in YA dystopian fiction @gnofhorror.bsky.social, @horrorsong.blog reanalyses Henry James' The Turn of the Screw @nightmare-magazine.com ... 1/2
Bob Pastorella@bobpastorella.com · 2y agoUnstoppable. @kevharrison.bsky.social won't quit. The 5 must-read horror articles online, only at @thisishorror.bsky.social.
