Edited by Wendy N. Wagner, NIGHTMARE is a critically-acclaimed digital magazine of horror and dark f
She remembered the scent of rain and bamboo. The squish of her shoes in the soft loam as she followe
Ass o’clock in the morning and it’s black out. BLACK black, the kind of black you only get in these
At least twice a day it occurs to Marissa that the photos she uses to find Neolithic long barrows an
Stopping by the canal to piss, and only a third of his way back to the House of Death, Ah Keng found
For my eighteenth birthday, I get a tattoo. A small red heart on my shoulder, Loot inked across it i
My visitor gazes at our family bookshelves. I perceive right away that this is less the helpless bib
This time I will definitely die, Jeffords thinks. He feels that this conscious thought affords him a
He looks at me, and I am his. A steady rhythm of flickering light cast from above, pursuing me like
I would call her beauty “otherworldly,” but that doesn’t really describe her cheekbones like scalpel
You wake with a start, your dream cutting off like a break in the film. If you could just remember i
They didn’t find anything but the teeth. I heard somewhere that’s what pigs do, eat everything but t
Spitzbergen, 1881. The whaling station stinks, metallic and rank, even though it’s slap-you-in-the-f
You’ve enjoyed a few of his stories and you follow each other on Twitter, so when you see that horro
He asks for a table by himself, in a quiet part of The Periphery. It’s late, nearly ten, and the pub
I only know what you’ve told me. Around 11 p.m. while I’m checking yogurt expiration dates for tomor
The new house had a lot of mirrors in it. Not, like, a freakish number---just more mirrors than I’d
“It’s a cabbit.” He wiggles his fingers through the grille of the hard plastic kennel. He is John or
You’re sitting on a couch in a home that’s not yours. On the floor in front of you are three young c
To mark the first day of vacation, Jeff Caldwell, extremely jet lagged after a day of travel and two
My reasons were selfish, but I hoped the dinner guest would succeed. She had made an effort to be pr
