Nightmare Magazine 71: August 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 Nino Cipri (“Dead Air”) and G.V. Anderson (“Crook’s Landing, by Scaffold”), along with reprints by Terry Dowling (“Mariners’ Round”) and Gary McMahon (“Kill All Monsters”). In the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” Nadia Bulkin connects horror to anxiety. Plus, we have author spotlights with our authors, and a heavy metal-themed book review from Terence Taylor.
"Nita: Okay, it’s . . . 1:13 in the morning, September 29th no it’s the 30th, now. Maddie just left, she said she had work in the morning so she couldn’t stay. Um. I kinda wish she had, but I’m it’s probably more than I deserve, that she stayed this long and this late. That she didn’t just tell me to fuck off when we were at the cafe.
We talked for a long time. She told me a little bit about the car accident, and . . . One of her friends was in the car with her and . . . Maddie didn’t just like, come out and say it, but reading between the lines, uh, this other girl didn’t make it out. I shouldn’t have been such a nosy shit, but I— This project, like so much in my head, sounded like it would be really cool. My ethnography, L-O-L. You can’t see it, but I just did really big air quotes. Why not interview the people that I fuck and then edit it all together and find some deep and underlying truth about the nature of, whatever, queer millennial sexual practices. I figured I’d end up on This American Life and then get like, a genius grant or something eventually. The first few interviews were cool, because like, yay, getting laid in the name of art. But this thing with Maddie is . . ."