Nightmare Magazine 52: January 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.
We have original fiction from Cadwell Turnbull ("Loneliness is in Your Blood") and Carrie Vaughn ("Redcap"), along with reprints by Lilliam Rivera ("The H8te") and Ashok Banker ("Blood Mangoes"). In our nonfiction department, author Kat Howard talks about the terror of changelings in the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word." Plus we have author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a feature interview with Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant.
"This is how you live forever. You cup your fingers under your chin, dig your nails into the soft meat and peel your skin away. First up and over your head, letting it fall on your back like a hood, and then sliding your fingers beneath the skin on your clavicle and slipping the lifted layers of tissue over the curve of your shoulders. You squirm and shimmy and writhe, curling your skin away from the sticky braids of muscle on your arms, your ribs, your stomach, your hips, your thighs. You let the wet membrane fall in a heap, stepping out of it like clothes. You hide it somewhere dark, somewhere difficult to find. Your prey can’t see you without your skin, can’t hear you shuffle into their resting places. They sleep quietly as you unlatch your tongue and stab its tapered edge into the throbbing vein of their necks. They won’t make a sound as you gorge yourself on their blood. You float from house to house, drinking your fill, until your tongue is fat in your mouth and your puckered lips cannot close around it."