sharp house - Nightmare Magazine 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...

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."
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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...

You can read @ravenjake.bsky.social's story "She Sheds Her Skin" here:
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/she-...

Ten Thousand Crawling Children - Nightmare Magazine Pregnancy is an infestation. A hidden invasion. An invisible operative sneaks inside you, planting a package of foreign genetic material and forcing you to replicate it trillions of times. Soon, your ...

You can read @rabusby.bsky.social's story "Ten Thousand Crawling Children" here:
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-...

Congratulations to our wonderful writers @rabusby.bsky.social and @ravenjake.bsky.social, whose Nightmare short stories have been nominated for the Stoker award!
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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!!

Need some classic body horror from our archives???

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...

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!
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We're so happy and excited for Victor!!!!

Clarkesworld #221 cover, featuring four large, weird blue bots and a human technician standing under a weird blue tread transport

Lightspeed #177 cover, featuring a swordsman on a promontory facing a red dragon

Flash Fiction Online #137 cover, featuring some brightly colored planets, and a black hole with two purple human silhouettes standing inside it

Locus #769 issue cover, featuring a purple speedway through a purple city

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/

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 ...

"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:
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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...

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...

<3, <3, <3!!!!!!

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...

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...

Thank you!

Karabasan - Nightmare Magazine 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 ...

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...

The H Word: My Father, My Private Monster - Nightmare Magazine The 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 footstool in the living room, daring to peek out when the wo...

"The H Word: My Father, My Private Monster" by Haralambi Markov appeared in our May 2024 issue.
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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...

"She Sheds Her Skin" by @ravenjake appeared in our November issue:
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/she-...

like blood on the mouths of death - Nightmare Magazine I 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 fizzing with dreams, I found Mama cradled on the sofa,...

"like blood on the mouths of death" by Victor Forna ran in our May issue:
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Ten Thousand Crawling Children - Nightmare Magazine Pregnancy is an infestation. A hidden invasion. An invisible operative sneaks inside you, planting a package of foreign genetic material and forcing you to replicate it trillions of times. Soon, your ...

"Ten Thousand Crawling Children" by @rabusby.bsky.social ran in our January 2024 issue -- brace yourself for some serious body horror!
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-...

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:

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...

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!

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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...

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."
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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-...

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.

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The terrific podcast is read by Janina Edwards.

Do listen to my reading of this Perfect story.

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...

"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.
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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 ...

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...

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...

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...