Welcome to Issue #144 of Nightmare Magazine—and welcome to September!
I have no doubt that if you’re reading this editorial, you are one of us Halloween People. Well, congratulations. You’ve made it through summer and now October shines ahead of you with only the sweet-smelling barrier of school supply sales separating you from all things dark and pumpkin-y.
To make the wait a little less agonizing, we’ve crafted a particularly spooooooky issue for your delectation. We’re kicking off the issue with Russell Nichols’s story “What Happened to the Crooners,” the tale of one wicked road and one very lost doo-wop band. Sam W. Pisciotta brings us “House of the Hidden Moon,” a heartbreaking story of a man haunted by his mother’s ghost—and the absence of his missing father and baby sister. In her creative essay “I Am One of Bluebeard’s Dead Wives,” Bella D. Bonne explores how an abusive relationship rendered her a ghost in her own life. Sonya Taaffe returns with a ghostly poem: “A Long Time Afterward.”
For nonfiction fare, Emily B. Hughes pens the latest addition to our “The H Word” column. Adam-Troy Castro writes about a new slasher film, and of course we have author spotlight interviews with Russell Nichols and Sam W. Pisciotta.
It’s an issue spun out of the things that go bump in the night, and we’re hoping you enjoy it.
