Nightmare Magazine 56: May 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 Giovanni De Feo ("Kiss of the Mouthless Girl") and Charles Payseur ("The Sound Of"), along with reprints by Priya Sharma ("Pearls") and Helen Marshall ("The Vault of Heaven"). We also have David Bowles discussing dark Latino folklore in the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word." As usual, you can expect some great author spotlights with our authors. But the big news this months is the exciting premier of our new book review column by Terence Taylor, called "Read This!"
“Is that some sort of urban legend?” I ask. The bloke with the eye-patch grins. He’s been stalking me for some time before coming to the bar and offering me a pint. I had been peering at the busty brunette two stools down when I became aware of his eyes—or rather, of his one eye. I got the impression he was like a human hound, sniffing out some secret scent I didn’t know I had on me. When he walked up to my stool, he leaned over and in a deep voice said he had a story for me. I tried to laugh it off. Worst pick up line I ever heard. The guy shrugged. He wasn’t interested in that sense, he said. And then he said . . . he said he had no control over who he told the story to. He was just a messenger."