Nightmare Magazine 72: September 2018

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.
We have original fiction from Weston Ochse ("House of Small Spiders") and M. Rickert ("True Crime"), along with reprints by Barbara Roden ("The Brink of Eternity") and Conrad Williams ("The Pike"). In the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," Grady Hendrix digs into the role of paranoia in horror. Plus, we have author spotlights with our authors, and Adam-Troy Castro reviews Paul Tremblay's new novel, THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD.
"Some houses never have a soul. It’s not their fault. It’s just the way it is. For a soul to be born to a house, almost too many things have to happen. Three or more families have to have lived there. Someone has to die in the house. Blood has to be spilled. And something, even if it’s just an idea, has to be born in the house. You can always tell when a house has a soul because of the small spiders. They’re everywhere, non-obtrusive, and ever watchful. The small spiders are the eyes of the house, watching those who live in it much like a great beast would observe its own fleas. Like the man in the living room staring at a silver-framed photo of a family of four. "