Nightmare Magazine 63: December 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 Nino Cipri ("Which Super Little Dead GirlTM Are You?") and Matthew Kressel ("Will You Meet Me There, Out Beyond the Bend?"), along with reprints by Tamsyn Muir ("The Woman in the Hill") and Lisa Morton ("Poppi's Monster"). As for nonfiction, we've got Paul Jessup discussing ontological horror and the weird in the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus we have author spotlights with our authors, and Adam-Troy Castro brings us a movie review.
"At a sleepover at your friend’s house, painting each other’s fingernails and listening to that new boy band you’re all obsessed with; you don’t think about the open window, how the curtains flutter in the summer breeze like a beckoning hand, how the lamplight shines like a beacon in the dark night. In bed, covers pulled over your head and a flashlight tucked into the crook of your shoulder, a book of ghost stories resting on your legs. All of your attention is on the fictional horrors captured in printed text and inky drawings, and none is on the arcane ritual that’s begun in your basement. In the graveyard by the train tracks, and yes, you know this is a bad idea, and yes, you know that Becky and her little clique were probably lying when they said they’d spent the whole night here. You’re not going to back down now, though, not
when she bet you five dollars that you were too chicken to do
it. Underground. You’ve been sleeping in the dirt for far more years than you ever walked above it."