Nightmare Magazine 53: February 2017

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 Jessica Amanda Salmonson ("The Garbage Doll") and Andrew Fox ("Youth Will be Served"), along with reprints by Jeffrey Ford ("Word Doll") and Lynda E. Rucker ("The Dying Season"). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with J. Lincoln Fenn.
"At first it was a fireman. A fireman was leaning over me. “Do you know your name?” Yes of course I know my name, what kind of silly question is that? But I couldn’t speak. I was in a vehicle, lying on my back. Oh, it’s an ambulance. But then I’m not there at all; I’m in a hospital. “Didn’t you used to be a writer?” asks the nurse, leaning over me, or is she a party clown? She’s wearing bright lipstick and her face is too close to mine and she smells of cigarillos. “Weren’t you a writer?” and I replied, “I used to be a writer.” She said, “Then what are you now? What do you do now?” I tried to think if I did anything. “I write stuff,” I said. “Oh!” she said, her heavy breath horrible. “Then you’re still a writer.” I said I guessed I was, but I was no longer talking to the nurse or daycare worker or whoever that foul-breathed horror was, but to a slim young man with an electronic pad clicking away, a reporter for a small local paper, a supermarket advertiser that always included a front page of local interest."