Nightmare Magazine 13: October 2013

NIGHTMARE is an online 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.
This month, we have original fiction from Megan Arkenberg ("The Crowgirl") and Norman Partridge ("10/31: Bloody Mary"), along with reprints by Kaaron Warren ("All You Can Do Is Breathe") and Alaya Dawn Johnson ("The Score"). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a feature interview with award-winning author Margo Lanagan.
"The boy never goes out in daylight. Oh, he could, and some do . . . but he doesn’t. Maybe that’s why he is still alive. He holes up in crawlspaces during the day. There are five houses he uses in rotation, all abandoned, none occupied by the dead or the living. As the world spins and sunlight and shadows travel the rooftops of his little town, he listens for a floorboard creak that doesn’t belong, hoping he won’t be discovered by the familiar boogeymen that have made this world their own since the dawning of 10/31 werewolves and witches, mummies and zombies, and other nameless things the boy would rather never see. The boy isn’t very large. The way things are these days, he figures that’s a plus. He is less of a target at night, and for this reason he has come to trust the darkness. Strange to trust darkness in a world overrun with nightmares . . . but that’s the way it is."