Nightmare Magazine 58: July 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're bringing you original fiction from Caspian Gray ("Promises of Spring") and Caroline Ratajski ("And With Her Went the Spring"), along with reprints by Stephen Graham Jones ("Brushdogs") and Cynthia Ward ("The Midwife"). In the latest installment of "The H Word," we have Nathan Carson sharing the creepy truth about goats. Plus, we've got author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with DONNIE DARKO's Richard Kelly.
"It was a freezing day in January, so Cody was surprised when Tay answered the door to his apartment without a shirt. His wet hair was still slicked down from the shower. “Um, hey,” said Cody. “It’s good to see you.” “Huh,” said Tay. “Come in, I guess.” Cody expected the scar in the middle of Tay’s chest. It was raised and shining, a ragged knoll that Tay crossed his arms over as soon as he noticed Cody looking. What Cody hadn’t expected was the other one, lower on his torso, two parallel tildes that might have been waves or a curvaceous equal sign. They were deep but clean, as clearly intentional as the puncture scar was arbitrary. “Where’d those come from?” Cody asked.
Tay turned away from him and reached for a shirt. “Got it all done at the same time, man.” He remembered the night they’d carried Tay back through the woods. Early March, damp but unseasonably warm, the air rich with the smells of rot and onion grass and daffodils. He’d been giddy before the screaming started, adrenaline and the promise of spring making it seem like a game at first."