Nightmare Magazine

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About

Nightmare is a 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 believe that horror is for everyone, and we aim to publish the widest possible variety of the most delicious, spine-tingling tales.

Edited by Stoker, Shirley Jackson, and Theodore Sturgeon award-nominated writer and two-time Locus award-nominated editor Wendy N. Wagner, every month Nightmare brings you all-original content, with a mix of short stories, flash fiction, and poetry, and featuring a variety of authors—from the bestsellers and award-winners you already know to the best new voices you haven’t heard of yet. When you read Nightmare, it is our hope that you’ll see where horror comes from, where it is now, and where it’s going.

Nightmare also includes fiction podcasts, nonfiction articles, book and media reviews, feature interviews, and Q&As with our authors that go behind-the-scenes of their stories. Our current publication schedule each month includes two pieces of original short fiction and two shorter works (including poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction), along with a feature interview or review and our monthly column about horror, “The H Word.” Each issue’s contents are serialized on our website throughout the month, with new features publishing on the first four Wednesdays of every month.

You can read Nightmare for free online, or you can read and subscribe to our ebook editions. Our ebook issues publish on the first of every month and are available for sale via our ebookstore (in ePub, and PDF format) and are also available in other formats such as Nook. You can also subscribe to our ebook edition in a variety of formats; visit our Subscribe page for more details.

Awards

  • Nebula Award winner: “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong
  • Nebula Award finalists: “The Sound of Children Screaming” by Rachael K. Jones, “Dick Pig” by Ian Muneshwar, “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island” by Nibedita Sen
  • Hugo Award finalist: “The Sound of Children Screaming” by Rachael K. Jones
  • World Fantasy Award winner: “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong
  • World Fantasy Award finalist: “The Sound of Children Screaming by Rachael K. Jones, “Little Widow” by Maria Dahvana Headley
  • Stoker Award winner: “The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra’s Diary)” by Gwendolyn Kiste
  • Stoker Award fiction finalists: “Autogas Ferryman,” by Champ Wongsatayanont; “Ten Thousand Crawling Children,” by R.A. Busby; “She Sheds Her Skin,” by Raven Jakubowski; “The Sound of Children Screaming,” by Rachael K. Jones; “Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1” by Kurt Fawver; “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong
  • Stoker Award nonfiction finalist: “The H Word: The Horror of Hair” by L. Marie Wood
  • Shirley Jackson Award winners: “We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It” by E.A. Petricone; “57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides” by Sam J. Miller;
  • Shirley Jackson Award finalists: “Moon Rabbit Song” by Caroline Hung; “MAMMOTH” by Manish Melwani; “The Dizzy Room” by Kristina Ten, “Dick Pig,” by Ian Muneshwar, “Gordon B. White is creating Haunting Weird Horror,” by Gordon B. White; “Angel, Monster, Man” by Sam J. Miller
  • Locus Award finalists: “The Sound of Children Screaming” by Rachael K. Jones, “Dick Pig” by Ian Muneshwar
  • Eugie Award winner: “The Sound of Children Screaming” Rachael K. Jones
  • Parsec Award finalist: “Singing With All My Skin and Bone” by Sunny Moraine
  • Ignyte Award finalists: “Alternate Rooms by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan (poetry), “The H Word: The Fear Horror of Change” by L. Marie Wood (nonfiction), “The H Word: Horror in a Country that Is Not Afraid of Death” by Dante Luiz (nonfiction)
  • Aurora Award winner: “Awakening” by Tiffany Morris (poetry)