Nightmare Magazine 20: May 2014

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 Damien Angelica Walters ("This Is the Way I Die") and Adam-Troy Castro ("In the Temple of Celestial Pleasure"), along with reprints by Chesya Burke ("I Make People Do Bad Things") and Miranda Siemienowicz ("Dress Circle"). 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 Nancy Holder. This issue is sponsored by our friends at Samhain Publishing. This month, look for THE BLUE CLASSROOM by Rod Labbe (of which you can also read an excerpt in our ebook edition this month).
"I want to be broken, to be shattered, then reshaped into something new. Something with bulletproof skin, eyes that can see in the dark, lungs that can breathe in water as well as air, and an impenetrable heart. I want to be made monstrous, beautiful, frightening.  You wield the scalpel, the clamps, the bone saw. I am offering myself as the subject of your experiment. Yes, I know it will hurt. Yes, I know there is no guarantee. I may end up terrified or warped and deformed or as fragile as
pun glass, but all things carry a risk.
Know that I am not a victim. Know that this is my choice.