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Brandon Massey

Brandon Massey is the award-winning author of several novels in the horror and suspense genres.  His most recent novel, In the Dark, was a Nook Top 100 bestseller.  Massey lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his family and can be found online at www.brandonmassey.com

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Janice Gable Bashman

Janice Gable Bashman is the Bram Stoker nominated author (w/New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry) of  Wanted Undead or Alive (Citadel Press 2010) and Predator (YA thriller, Month9Books, coming October 2014). She is editor of The Big Thrill (International Thriller Writers’ magazine).  Her short fiction has been published in various anthologies and magazines. She has written for Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market, The Writer, […]

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Tia V. Travis

Canadian Tia V. Travis lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, author Norman Partridge, and their young daughter. “Down Here in the Garden” was a finalist for both the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and was reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Volume 14. Her fiction […]

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The Editors

Nightmare Magazine is edited and published by John Joseph Adams, with Wendy N. Wagner, John Langan, and a team of dedicated staff. See our Staff page for more information.

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Bones

Bones had another name once, lost to the ages. In that tenebrous stretch between the building of Stonehenge and the ascendance of the Romans, he served a Phrygian priest, a worshipper of Cybele, in the hills near modern-day Cheddar, England. Buried for aeons in the limestone grottoes beneath Exham Priory, his skeleton was exhumed via […]

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Christopher M. Cevasco

Christopher M. Cevasco writes fiction inspired by history. His short stories have appeared in Black Static, A Field Guide to Surreal Botany, and the Prime Books anthologies Shades of Blue and Gray: Ghosts of the Civil War and Zombies: Shambling through the Ages, among numerous other magazines and anthologies. From 2003 to 2009, Chris was also the editor/publisher of the […]

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Lesley Bannatyne

Lesley Bannatyne is an author with five books on Halloween (covering its history, an anthology of Halloween literature, a children’s story, a how-to, and her most recent, Halloween Nation. Behind the Scenes of America’s Fright Night). She is also a freelance journalist, covering stories ranging from local druids to relief aid in Bolivia. Bannatyne has shared her knowledge on […]

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David Sklar

David Sklar grew up in Michigan, where the Michipeshu nibbled his toes when Lake Superior was feeling frisky. His work has appeared in such places as Strange Horizons, Ladybug, and Scheherazade’s Façade. Publications in 2014 include the anthology Trafficking in Magic/Magicking in Traffic (coedited with Sarah Avery) in May of 2014 from Fantastic Books, and […]

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Jude Griffin

Jude Griffin is an envirogeek, writer, and photographer. She has trained llamas at the Bronx Zoo; was a volunteer EMT, firefighter, and HAZMAT responder; worked as a guide and translator for journalists covering combat in Central America; lived in a haunted village in Thailand; ran an international frog monitoring network; and loves happy endings. Bonus […]

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Seras Nikita

Nikita is a hobbyist writer of horror and science fiction. She currently resides in Oakland, California where she works at Tippett Studio, managing PR and the stop-motion project MAD GOD. She loves painting, horror films, motorcycles, aerial silks, and baking elaborate tarts.  Her favorite book is Stephen King’s Misery, and her favorite film is Let the Right One […]

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