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The H Word: New Millennium NauticalI’ve been told that nautical horror is having a moment . What that means, or what any of us should do about that fact, is a little bit oblique,...
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The Dark DevicesAs so many pieces of this length do---and I’m not the only writer who will report this---the idea and storyline for “The Dark Devices” came to me...
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Editorial: June 2024The night hag or “sleep paralysis demon” is such a common experience it gave birth to the term “nightmare.” Every society generates its own...
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Author Spotlight: Manish MelwaniI don’t think going to Mars will save us. Nor will building some godlike artificial intelligence. No---if there is to be a worthwhile, dignified...
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MAMMOTHIf you haven’t seen it yet, you will. Three hooded figures sit cross-legged on the floor of a candle-lit warehouse. There’s something strange about...
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Interview: J. Nicole JonesJ. Nicole Jones received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University. She has held editorial positions at VICE magazine and...
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The Southern BellsThis poem began as a letter from a grandmother to her grandchild. It warns of uncontrollable wickedness and gifts them wisdom for how to survive...
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Author Spotlight: Victor FornaUsing a child’s innocent mind, it is easier to take ourselves back to our primal and untainted fears. I agree with you. To add to that, I also...
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like blood on the mouths of deathI first saw them one evening in May. I couldn’t tell what they were: small, like kids, like me, but they rustled, raffia fronds for skin. My eyes...
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The H Word: My Father, My Private MonsterThe first horror film I ever saw was with my father. I was way too young to watch anything so graphic, and I cowered behind the ratty green...
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Solve This One, Mrs. MillerMath has never been my strong suit. Still, I’ve always rather enjoyed logic puzzles (particularly ones like Einstein’s Riddle), and after falling...
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Editorial: May 2024Welcome to Issue #140 of Nightmare Magazine ! It’s May, the most flowery month of the year, and here at Nightmare , we’re seeing the blooms...
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Author Spotlight: Daniel David FroidI wanted to write about a so-called lost writer but also to push that idea into somewhere strange by writing about a writer and book that may...
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An Offering from the VoidThere is something uniquely squalid and sad about estate sales. To traipse through a cluttered house, one of a teeming crowd here to bear witness...
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De•crypt•ed: Taylor on KingI think the short story is the most effective form of horror. This is not to say a horror novel can’t be scary or great---there are many great...
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Ensabled NightThe opening line is my riff on Bach’s chorale prelude “Come, Sweet Death,” one of his most profound. The foxfur wings I feel come from Well’s “In...
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Backseat KissCW: violence, blood, death. It didn’t come as a surprise when AJ told me she wanted to open our relationship. We’d been an item for four years, but...
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The H Word: Walking in CemeteriesCemeteries don’t need the supernatural to terrify. Zombies and revenants aren’t required to raise gooseflesh along our necks. Ghosts don’t have to...
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Author Spotlight: Mark GalarritaI like to start my short stories by immediately taking a plunge with my audience, a phrase or a certain voice or tone that lets them know what kind...
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There are three children jumping over a can outside a bodegaIn early 2022, there was a comedian on TikTok, or at least I thought they were a comedian, who said, and I’m paraphrasing here: My biggest fear...
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Author Spotlight: Shannon ScottGrief causes us to make questionable decisions or judgements. When we're grieving we do risky things and often trust the wrong people because...
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My ContainmentWhen the American saw me sitting on a stone in the river, his mouth opened and closed, a brown trout caught on a fishing line. He kept his eyes on...
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Book Reviews: New Novels by Hand & KisteAdam-Troy Castro looks at two new novels about haunts and houses: Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting on the Hill and Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of...
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The Let GoI wrote this to explore how we change in a relationship, how it isn’t always healthy or best for us---or necessarily consensual. We give pieces of...
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Author Spotlight: Fatima TaqviI think it started out in my head with the scene where the eyeball falls out of Muniza’s socket, and this almost sitcom style uh-oh moment where...
