Welcome to issue eighty of Nightmare!

This month, Mimi Mondal plays with a classic Bengali trope about ghosts in her new short story “Malotibala Printing Press.” Remember being in school and writing bibliographies for your papers? Well, Nibedita Sen spins that academic exercise into true horror in her new short “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island.” We also have some nightmarish reprints by Micah Dean Hick (“The Deer Boy”) and Philip Fracassi (“Fail-Safe”).

Writer, podcaster, and all-around geek Aaron Duran brings us the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word.” Of course we have author spotlights with our authors, and we also have a feature interview with Gabino Iglesias. Plus, our e-book readers will get a special e-book exclusive excerpt from Mary SanGiovanni’s new novel, Into the Asylum.

Awards News

As you may recall, back in March, we told you about how two of our sister-magazine Lightspeed’s authors, José Pablo Iriarte and Sarah Pinsker, were named 2018 Nebula finalists. Both José’s novelette, “The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births” (lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/substance-lives-accidents-births) and Sarah’s short story, “The Court Magician” (lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-court-magician) were published in Lightspeed’s January 2018 issue.

Now we’re pleased to also announce that Sarah Pinsker’s story is also a finalist for the Hugo Award, as is frequent Lightspeed cover artist Galen Dara. Congrats to them both!