http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/itunes-rss/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/ Horror & Dark Fantasy Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:05:29 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/preview-full-nightmaretwit128px-1.jpg https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/ 32 32 RSS - Nightmare Magazine false RSS - Nightmare Magazine podcast https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg https://www.nightmare-magazine.com https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-why-do-we-like-the-weird/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-why-do-we-like-the-weird/#respond Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:05:29 +0000 RSL https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23586 .”]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-why-do-we-like-the-weird/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-spiders-you-swallow-in-your-sleep/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-spiders-you-swallow-in-your-sleep/#respond Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:01:58 +0000 Wendy Nikel https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23594 The image flashes only briefly on the television screen, but that’s all it takes. In that millisecond before Libby squeezes her eyes shut, the spiders are already at work in her mind, weaving sticky new synaptic bridges. They twist and shape the unlikely connections.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-spiders-you-swallow-in-your-sleep/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-april-2026/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-april-2026/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:05:38 +0000 Wendy N. Wagner https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23581 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-april-2026/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-a-c-wise-2/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-a-c-wise-2/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:02:11 +0000 Clay Vermulm https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23573 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-a-c-wise-2/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-final-girl-trap/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-final-girl-trap/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:01:17 +0000 A.C. Wise https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23588 aha, I knew it as you swallow the pain.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-final-girl-trap/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/media-reviews-march-2026/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/media-reviews-march-2026/#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:05:08 +0000 Adam-Troy Castro https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23501 Primate. But he loved one particular performance in the film that he thinks you ought to check out. He also talks about some recent reads---so check out his book discussion, too.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/media-reviews-march-2026/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/zooming-past-shotgun-houses/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/zooming-past-shotgun-houses/#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:01:08 +0000 Eva Roslin https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23511 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/zooming-past-shotgun-houses/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight/author-spotlight-adam-troy-castro-18/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight/author-spotlight-adam-troy-castro-18/#respond Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:02:27 +0000 Alex Puncekar https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23492 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight/author-spotlight-adam-troy-castro-18/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/her-dark-places/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/her-dark-places/#respond Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:01:08 +0000 Adam-Troy Castro https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23506 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/her-dark-places/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-laughing-to-swallow-my-screams/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-laughing-to-swallow-my-screams/#respond Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:05:57 +0000 Ryan Habermeyer https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23499 Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I didn’t understand the social politics of the movie at the time, and while faintly aroused by Jessica Rabbit I remained thoroughly confused by the idea of bestial human/toon marriage.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-laughing-to-swallow-my-screams/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-doll-problem/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-doll-problem/#respond Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:01:35 +0000 Angela Liu https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23509 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-doll-problem/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-march-2026/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-march-2026/#respond Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:05:36 +0000 Wendy N. 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White https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23503 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/will-the-last-one-to-leave-please-turn-out-the-lights/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/plumbing-the-depths-haunted-writers-and-haunted-writings/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/plumbing-the-depths-haunted-writers-and-haunted-writings/#respond Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:05:49 +0000 Mike Thorn https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23381 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/plumbing-the-depths-haunted-writers-and-haunted-writings/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/when-i-die/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/when-i-die/#respond Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:01:58 +0000 Matthew Wollin https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23394 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/when-i-die/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-marisca-pichette/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-marisca-pichette/#respond Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:02:22 +0000 Carrie Finch https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23368 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-marisca-pichette/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/twelve-facts-about-the-dermestid-beetle/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/twelve-facts-about-the-dermestid-beetle/#respond Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:01:21 +0000 Marisca Pichette https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23391 1. There is no better friend than the dermestid. I found them first in the woods, adorning the staring sockets of a coyote skull. So small I could have crushed them, they accomplished more than my child hands could—crawling, chewing, cleaning better than any household sponge or brush.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/twelve-facts-about-the-dermestid-beetle/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-snakes-beneath-the-kudzu/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-snakes-beneath-the-kudzu/#respond Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:05:10 +0000 Elizabeth Broadbent https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23372 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-snakes-beneath-the-kudzu/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/rest-stop/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/rest-stop/#respond Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:01:03 +0000 Pedro Iniguez https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23389 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/rest-stop/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-february-2026/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-february-2026/#respond Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:05:59 +0000 Wendy N. Wagner https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23370 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-february-2026/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-everdeen-mason/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-everdeen-mason/#respond Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:02:16 +0000 Devin Marcus https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23365 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-everdeen-mason/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-ghost-in-apartment-5k/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-ghost-in-apartment-5k/#respond Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:01:23 +0000 Everdeen Mason https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23386 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-ghost-in-apartment-5k/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/interview-johnny-compton/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/interview-johnny-compton/#respond Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:05:45 +0000 Alex Puncekar https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23273 Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast and several other publications. He is the author of The Spite House, Devils Kill Devils, and Dead First, as well as the short story collection Midnight Somewhere.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/interview-johnny-compton/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/at-the-sight-of-my-grave-i-stumble/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/at-the-sight-of-my-grave-i-stumble/#respond Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:01:09 +0000 April Elaine Carson https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23283 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/at-the-sight-of-my-grave-i-stumble/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-sara-s-messenger/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-sara-s-messenger/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:02:37 +0000 Clay Vermulm https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23263 go there, to write about whatever abnormal, unpleasant, secret, shameful thing, feels vulnerable and risky. I’m often very impressed by writers who do it.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-sara-s-messenger/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/jennifers-daughter/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/jennifers-daughter/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:01:25 +0000 Sara S. Messenger https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23281 Jennifer’s Body, so you see her womb was kinda already out of commish by the time she got around to wanting to have me. A year ago, after my thirteenth birthday, she made her first and only concerted effort at explaining it.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/jennifers-daughter/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-the-merry-macabre-of-the-renaissance-faire/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-the-merry-macabre-of-the-renaissance-faire/#respond Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:05:45 +0000 Barbara Barnett https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23269 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-the-merry-macabre-of-the-renaissance-faire/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/dregs/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/dregs/#respond Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:01:05 +0000 R. Diego Martinez https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23279 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/dregs/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-january-2026/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-january-2026/#respond Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:05:16 +0000 Wendy N. Wagner https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23266 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-january-2026/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-kurt-fawver-3/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-kurt-fawver-3/#respond Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:02:46 +0000 Kevin Figueroa Quiñones https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23261 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-kurt-fawver-3/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-tailors/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-tailors/#respond Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:01:04 +0000 Kurt Fawver https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23276 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-tailors/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/blacula/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/blacula/#respond Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:05:34 +0000 P.C. Verrone https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23183 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/blacula/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/media-book-review-december-2025/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/media-book-review-december-2025/#respond Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:05:22 +0000 Adam-Troy Castro https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23166 The Stand. Find out why he's recommending them both!]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/media-book-review-december-2025/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-leyla-hamedi-2/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-leyla-hamedi-2/#respond Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:02:00 +0000 Clay Vermulm https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23159 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-leyla-hamedi-2/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/shahmeran/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/shahmeran/#respond Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:01:32 +0000 Leyla Hamedi https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23175 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/shahmeran/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word/the-h-word-double-dog-dare-you/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word/the-h-word-double-dog-dare-you/#respond Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:05:23 +0000 Kristina Ten https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23164 ours anymore, was it? That was somebody else’s lesson, written for us.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word/the-h-word-double-dog-dare-you/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/review-when-the-baby-sleeps/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/review-when-the-baby-sleeps/#respond Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:02:17 +0000 Lyndsie Manusos https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23179 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/review-when-the-baby-sleeps/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-december-2025/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-december-2025/#respond Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:05:06 +0000 Wendy N. Wagner https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23161 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-december-2025/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight/author-spotlight-dante-luiz/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight/author-spotlight-dante-luiz/#respond Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:02:03 +0000 Clay Vermulm https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23157 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight/author-spotlight-dante-luiz/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-short-history-of-a-long-forgotten-ill-fated-telenovela/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-short-history-of-a-long-forgotten-ill-fated-telenovela/#respond Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:01:14 +0000 Dante Luiz https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23171 Senhora (1972–1973) lies, with no identification tag, on the shelves of Cinemateca Brasileira, the largest audiovisual archive in Latin America. If anyone ever opened the tin cans, they would see that its quadruplex tapes are flaky, almost falling apart.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-short-history-of-a-long-forgotten-ill-fated-telenovela/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/plumbing-the-depths-when-scientists-go-mad-ghost-hunting-and-horror/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/plumbing-the-depths-when-scientists-go-mad-ghost-hunting-and-horror/#respond Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:05:51 +0000 Lisa Morton https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23074 Calling the Spirits). Here's a short reading guide from her compiling great fiction about ghost hunters.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/plumbing-the-depths-when-scientists-go-mad-ghost-hunting-and-horror/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/futakuchi-onna-speaks-of-the-kamaitachi/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/futakuchi-onna-speaks-of-the-kamaitachi/#respond Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:01:30 +0000 Betsy Aoki https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23086 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/futakuchi-onna-speaks-of-the-kamaitachi/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight/author-spotlight-sharang-biswas-2/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight/author-spotlight-sharang-biswas-2/#respond Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:02:18 +0000 Clay Vermulm https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23061 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight/author-spotlight-sharang-biswas-2/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/bleed-for-me-bro/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/bleed-for-me-bro/#respond Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:01:00 +0000 Sharang Biswas https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23080 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/bleed-for-me-bro/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-the-forests-quiet-hunger-for-your-soul/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-the-forests-quiet-hunger-for-your-soul/#respond Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:05:13 +0000 Samuel Peters https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23067 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-the-forests-quiet-hunger-for-your-soul/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/primordium/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/primordium/#respond Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:01:02 +0000 Erica Ruppert https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23084 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/primordium/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial/editorial-november-2025/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial/editorial-november-2025/#respond Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:05:44 +0000 Wendy N. Wagner https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23064 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial/editorial-november-2025/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-james-l-sutter-3/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-james-l-sutter-3/#respond Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:02:01 +0000 Carrie Finch https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23058 thoracic cavity?” That then gave rise to the line “they nest in hollows—do you feel hollow?” and the double meaning felt interesting enough that I wrote it down. But then it sat there. For years. Because I didn’t have a story—I had a bit of wordplay.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-james-l-sutter-3/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/make-of-your-chest-a-place-for-birds/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/make-of-your-chest-a-place-for-birds/#respond Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:01:57 +0000 James L. Sutter https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23077 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/make-of-your-chest-a-place-for-birds/feed/ 0