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Editorial

Editorial: June 2020

by John Joseph Adams

Published in June 2020 (Issue 93) | 141 words

Welcome to issue ninety-three of Nightmare!

If the movie Midsommar piqued your interest in folk horror, you’ll be delighted by this new story from G.V. Anderson: “We, the Folk.” Find yourself transported to post-World War I Britain, where tea time and cottages stop being cozy and start being very, very creepy.

If you enjoy mushrooms in your meals, Ashley Deng’s new short “Dégustation” may make you rethink your dinner. We also hope to unsettle you with reprints by Laird Barron (“Girls Without Their Faces On”) and Robert Shearman (“That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love”).

In “The H Word,” Ian McDowell wonders about what kind of childhoods your favorite horror writers had. Plus we have our usual author spotlight mini-interviews, and Terence Taylor digs into some new dark fiction.

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John Joseph Adams

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John Joseph Adams is the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the New York Times bestselling editor of more than fifty anthologies, such as Wastelands, A People’s Future of the United States, and Out There Screaming (with Jordan Peele). He is also editor (and publisher) of the Hugo Award-winning magazine Lightspeed and is publisher of its sibling-magazine Nightmare. Called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble, John is a two-time winner of the Hugo Award, a winner of the Stoker,  Locus, and ENNIE awards, and a ten-time World Fantasy Award finalist. In addition to his short fiction work, he’s the co-creator of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, and for five years he was the editor of the John Joseph Adams Books novel imprint for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Lately, he’s been working as an editor and game designer on various TTRPG projects for Kobold Press, Paizo, and Monte Cook Games. Learn more at johnjosephadams.com.