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Editorial: September 2020

Welcome to issue ninety-six of Nightmare!

Our original fiction this month is deeply grounded in place. We’re taking you on a witchy trip to the prairie in Ray Nayler’s new story “Outside of Omaha,” and we let Sonya Taaffe immerse us in the canals of Boston in “Tea with the Earl of Twilight.” Our reprints are from Kivel Carson (“The Night Has No Eyes”) and Gary McMahon (“My Boy Builds Coffins”).

On the nonfiction front, Suyi Davies Okungbowa talks about the differences between Nigerian and American horror in our “The H Word” column. Plus, Terence Taylor reviews some excellent new reads, and of course we have author spotlights with our authors. Our ebook readers will enjoy an excerpt from the reissue of Kathe Koja’s classic novel, The Cipher.

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.