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They SayThe first draft of this came out of my head in November 2016, for obvious contemporaneous reasons. As is often the way of stories, though, it took...
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Author Spotlight: Neal AuchAt the heart of this story there’s a connection between flesh and flowers, which is an explicitly biblical notion. Indeed, the title of the piece...
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and its place remembers it no moreCenturies of war, conquest, and foreign invasion have drawn and redrawn the map of Argia countless times, leaving the country’s boundaries...
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The H Word: Neuroscience of FearThis is a story about fear that begins with its absence. Are there people who truly don’t get scared, and what can they teach us about horror? I’m...
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Bog GirlsI was inspired to write this poem after a day of birdwatching at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge with my husband and oldest daughter. As a...
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Editorial: June 2023One of the things I love best about my life is that I get to be a part of the amazing, weird, and wonderful horror community. The horror community...
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Author Spotlight: Ozzie M. GartrellThis is one of the worlds I’ve spent numerous years crafting. I love worldbuilding and I wanted to create an intricate world where many different...
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The Seconds Between Light and SoundThe drums sound at first light but you are already awake. Today is the day you will finally meet the Goddess. She’ll either embrace you, ripping...
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Interview: Sadie HartmannSadie Hartmann, aka Mother Horror, is the co-owner of the horror fiction subscription company, Night Worms, and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated...
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We Are Always Walking on Dead ThingsThere is so much we don’t know. I’ve often stood in ankle-high grass wondering what lay deep beneath my feet . . . and what lay beneath that . . ....
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Author Spotlight: Elena SichrovskyI think there’s a part of human nature that instinctively fears what they don’t know or understand. For me that aversion to “the other” is what...
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Goodnight, Virginia BluebellsThe call comes when Kaitlyn is at Little Star---the cafe on the corner of Third and Main---picking up lunch for the marketing team: two Caesar...
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The H Word: Healing Through HorrorThe Stradivarius is my love-letter retelling of Patrick Hamilton’s Gas Light , yes, but it’s also another in a long line of attempts to process...
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9 Lies You Tell Yourself About Ghost HuntingThis started with a prompt in a weekend flash writing contest: “True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” That...
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Editorial: May 2023When I was a freshman in college, eager to knock out all those pesky general education requirements before I dug in and got serious about my major,...
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Author Spotlight: Keith RossonI started boxing recently and am finding myself drawn to these parallels between combat sports and horror. Both ask for a wild and possibly...
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Primal SlapJeffrey, chin glazed in grease, leans his head over my cubicle wall and asks me what I’m working on. He slurps something from his bento box---the...
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de•crypt•ed—Elison on MathesonBut why bother pointing out the myriad failures of a half-century old novel? Matheson is dead, but like Hell House ’s moldering emasculated...
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A Piece of Paper, BurnedMy maternal grandfather, Klas, wrote a lot about his childhood when he got older, and in recent years, I’ve gone back and read his notes many...
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Author Spotlight: James TatamDespite not actually caring about sports outside of weightlifting, I’m a big fan of sports novels. Walter Tevis has a couple of amazing ones such...
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JumperThe Rampart Hotel towered into the sky. It was hard to believe the building was once considered the flagship symbol for a new boom in southeast...
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The H Word: Dirty Mouths Stinking of PlagueOn the evening of January 14, 2021, Corey Johnson was placed on a cross-shaped gurney in the death chamber of the Federal Correctional Complex in...
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Delicate WebbingMy writing explores the darkness within myself and my past. In this case, I wanted to write about a frighteningly unhealthy relationship. I hope...
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Editorial, April 2023Welcome to Issue #127 of Nightmare Magazine , and welcome to April, that month of fools and taxes. It’s a time of year when bad choices can really...
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Author Spotlight: Natasha KingThe conversational narrative was there from the start! I wrote the first line knowing almost nothing about the piece other than that it was going...
