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Editorial

Editorial: July 2020

by John Joseph Adams

Published in Jul. 2020 (Issue 94) | 129 words

Welcome to issue ninety-four of Nightmare!

This month, Carlie St. George spins us a new story of ghosts, trauma, and life in California: “Spider Season, Fire Season.” Adam R. Shannon’s story “We Came Home from Hunting Mushrooms” uses an extremely strange phenomenon to talk about how our minds cope with loss. We also have reprints by Joe R. Lansdale (“The Folding Man”) and Ama Patterson (“Hussy Strutt”).

On the nonfiction side of things, Brian Evenson has written the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word.” Our staff brings us author spotlights with our authors, and we have a book review from Adam-Troy Castro. Plus our ebook readers are being treated to an excerpt of Keith Rosson’s new novel, Road Seven.

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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 forty 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 sister-magazines Nightmare and Fantasy. 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 on various TTRPG projects for Kobold Press and Monte Cook Games and as a contributing game designer on books such as Kobold Press’s Tome of Heroes. Learn more at johnjosephadams.com.

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