Nightmare Magazine 68: May 2018

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 Nalo Hopkinson ("Ally") and Stephanie Malia Morris ("Bride Before You"), along with reprints by Trent Hergenrader ("The Hodag") and Stephen Graham Jones ("Till the Morning Comes"). In the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," Lisa Morton writes about dementia. Terence Taylor gives us reviews of fresh new fiction, and of course we have author spotlights with our authors.
"Such a beautiful boy, Cornelius Clay. Pity no woman’ll marry him. And to think it ain even his fault, sweet baby, born into money and beauty both, like the good Lord couldn’t part with his blessings fast enough. Lord, this boy. Skin so bright he looks anointed, hair straight as an Indian’s and black as molasses. There’s four generations of freedmen in that skin and hair, and he can name every single one of them. He got a body so fine, even the angels cryin out: silver screen silhouette in a tailored suit and two- toned wingtips, hat brim so crisp its shadow slices butter, so tall he don’t got to see nobody unless he wants to. He graduated summa cum laude from Howard and Harvard Law, and escorted Clara Cox Linwood herself at their cotillion. He steps into the street and every head turns, men suckin their teeth with want, women flattenin hands on bellies, on bosoms, relishin the way their thighs sweetly moisten. Lord, what that boy can do to a body in broad daylight, in a public street. God never made nobody so perfect as Cornelius Clay and probably won’t ever again."