Nightmare Magazine 50: November 2016

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 Tananarive Due (“Migration”) and Sandra McDonald (“When You Work for the Old Ones”), along with reprints by Michael Shea (“The Horror on the 33”) and Tim Pratt (“Fool’s Fire”). 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 Jack Ketchum.
"Jazmine woke beside her fiancé, Cal, and nearly vomited from his smell. The nausea began with the scents she knew—garlic from the prawns he’d sautéed for dinner, salty-sour underarm musk, oil from his hair follicles. She tried turning away from him in her bed, but she couldn’t escape the newer smells, the ones she couldn’t name. Was she pregnant? That thought made her sit up and gasp aloud, but she talked down her panic. She’d been on the patch since college, and it would not have failed her. Besides, the sickness was unlike anything as trite as a pregnancy; it was deeper, to her bones. He smelled like boredom. Like gullibility. Like his heart yawned open so wide with sweet, sticky goo that she might drown in his stench."