Nightmare Magazine 70: July 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 Alison Littlewood ("Ways to Wake") and Caspian Gray ("Kylie Land"), along with reprints by Ray Cluley ("Bones of Crow") and Kelley Armstrong ("A Haunted House of Her Own"). In the latest installment of "The H Word," Halli Villegas discusses the old-fashioned ghost story. We also have author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with horror poet and author Linda D. Addison.
"I hear the sound before I open my eyes. Someone is eating, though I should be alone in my room, and it’s too loud, too close. When I look, I see the cat the one we’re all supposed to adore, that’s meant to have us all therapeutically laughing, lowering our blood pressures by stroking its soft grey fur. I tried once, but it felt to me as soft as cobwebs, as dust, as decaying flesh. The cat is sitting on the shelf wheeled across the bottom of my bed. It’s eating my breakfast. They must have brought in my porridge while I slept, and now it drips from the cat’s sharp teeth, clogs its whiskers, turns its tongue white. It looks at me over the bowl. Its eyes are dirty yellow, and it doesn’t blink, and it doesn’t look away."