Welcome to issue thirty-one of Nightmare!

In case you missed it, just a reminder that last month saw the publication of Operation Arcana, my new anthology of military fantasy, which was published by Baen on March 3. Operation Arcana contains sixteen never-before-published tales (about 100,000 words of material), from Glen Cook, Myke Cole, Genevieve Valentine, Elizabeth Moon, Django Wexler, Weston Ochse, Yoon Ha Lee, Jonathan Maberry, Tobias S. Buckell & David Klecha, Ari Marmell, Tanya Huff, Carrie Vaughn, T.C. McCarthy, Simon R. Green, Seanan McGuire, and Linda Nagata. The stories run the gamut from military epic fantasy to military urban fantasy to military historical fantasy — and everything in between. You’ll find a reprint of Linda Nagata’s story, “The Way Home,” in the March issue of Lightspeed. If you’d like to learn more about the book, read additional stories from the anthology for free online, or read interviews with the authors, visit my Operation Arcana website at johnjosephadams.com/operation-arcana.

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Also recently released was Wastelands 2, the sequel to my bestselling — and first! — anthology, Wastelands. It contains nearly 200,000 words of fiction, including stories by George R.R. Martin, Seanan McGuire, Hugh Howey, Nancy Kress, David Brin, Ann Aguirre, Paolo Bacigalupi, Lauren Beukes, and Junot Díaz, among others. Learn more about it at johnjosephadams.com/wastelands-2.

Speaking of Wastelands, Titan also just recently released the original Wastelands in mass market paperback edition. So if you’ve been wanting to read it all these years and just couldn’t abide paying more than $7.99 for it, now’s your chance!

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In other anthology news, The End Has Come, the third and final volume of The Apocalypse Triptych, which I’m editing with Hugh Howey, will be coming out a bit later than initially anticipated. Due to various factors Hugh and I decided it would be best for us to delay the release of The End Has Come by another month, so instead of April 1, it’ll come out May 1. (We previously already delayed it from March 1 to April 1.) Initially, the delay was just to put some space between the release of Wastelands 2 and Operation Arcana, but then we ran into some additional issues that made us decide that delaying the book another month would be the best thing for it. Sorry to disappoint all of you who have been patiently waiting for the book, but we do hope that this will be the last delay before publication.

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With our announcements out of the way, here’s what we’ve got on tap this month:

We have original fiction from Desirina Boskovich (“The Island”) and Charles Payseur (“Spring Thaw”), along with reprints by Usman Malik (“Ishq”) and Nancy Kilpatrick (“The Age of Sorrow”).

We also have Seanan McGuire penning the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a feature interview with author and founder of Cemetery Dance Publications, Richard Chizmar.

That’s about all I have for you this month. Thanks for reading!