Welcome to Issue #152 of Nightmare Magazine! And welcome to what might be our most meta issue ever. I’m no expert on postmodernism (seriously, I fell asleep every session of my 20th Century Philosophy class), but I do love fiction that recognizes it’s working within a larger schema of texts all inescapably linked by culture.
This month’s issue is packed with texts about texts. In their new story “Here I Go Again,” Lindz McLeod puts violence against women in the spotlight . . . to the tune of one of ABBA’s most toe-tapping hits. We’ve got Ben Peek’s new short story about a cannibal-loving writer: “Edgar Addison, the Author of Dévorer (1862 – 1933),” which will have you double-checking the veracity of the story’s many footnotes and references. V.H. Chen spins a monstrous flash piece centered on a 1990s pop playlist in “Eleven Songs for Another Lover.” And poet Daniel Oluremi skewers a common Nigerian religious ritual in his powerful poem “Wet Dollars.”
In our nonfiction features, Maria Alexander writes about the connection between spiritualism and feminism in the newest installment of our “The H Word” column. Adam-Troy Castro brings us a review of Ryan Coogler’s smash hit film Sinners, and of course assistant editor and spotlight interview coordinator Alex Puncekar has organized two terrific interviews with our writers to find out what inspired their work.
It’s another great issue, and one we’re delighted to share with you.
