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Editorial

Editorial: January 2020

by John Joseph Adams

Published in Jan. 2020 (Issue 88) | 118 words

Happy New Year, and welcome to issue eighty-eight of Nightmare!

It’s another terrifying issue, with a new short story from Meg Elison (“Familiar Face”) that connects the spirit world with the internet of things. Brian Evenson has penned a darkly fantastic forest in his new short “Elo Havel.” We also have reprints by Stephen Graham Jones (“The Floor of the Basement Is the Roof of Hell”) and S.P. Miskowski (“Alligator Point”).

In our “The H Word” column, author Caitlin Starling takes a disconcerting look at the safest and coziest of places: our homes. Plus, of course we have author spotlights with our authors, and there’s also a new media review from Adam-Troy Castro.

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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.