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Wagner https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=24218 Nightmare Magazine, and welcome to October! In our household, we’ve been preparing for this moment for months, planning, daydreaming, and crafting as we get ready for our annual Halloween party. Here at Nightmare, we have also been preparing a kind of Halloween party—a literary one. 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But the road stop diner, which offers a meal but little comfort, has also been ripe for terror.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word/the-h-word-roadside-dread-horror-at-the-diner/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/useless-heart-stopped-cold/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/useless-heart-stopped-cold/#respond Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:01:37 +0000 A. Artemis Chen https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=24129 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/useless-heart-stopped-cold/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial/editorial-september-2026/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial/editorial-september-2026/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:05:04 +0000 Wendy N. Wagner https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=24110 Nightmare Magazine. It’s back-to-school season around here, which means new notebooks, cooler evenings, and a sudden overwhelming craving for apples. 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I think about the exploration we do as writers of horror.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-horror-is-the-metal-of-books/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/nomouth/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/nomouth/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:01:27 +0000 Marianne Kirby https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23774 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/nomouth/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-june-2026/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-june-2026/#respond Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:05:54 +0000 Wendy N. Wagner https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23758 a mouth inside its mouth?]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-june-2026/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-aishatu-ado/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-aishatu-ado/#respond Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:02:39 +0000 Clay Vermulm https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23750 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-aishatu-ado/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/what-grows-back/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/what-grows-back/#respond Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:01:51 +0000 Aishatu Ado https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23767 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/what-grows-back/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/plumbing-the-depths-the-origins-and-omissions-of-apocalyptic-horror/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/plumbing-the-depths-the-origins-and-omissions-of-apocalyptic-horror/#respond Wed, 27 May 2026 10:05:59 +0000 Lizzie Wade https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23669 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/plumbing-the-depths-the-origins-and-omissions-of-apocalyptic-horror/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/podcast/consumed/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/podcast/consumed/#respond Wed, 27 May 2026 10:01:16 +0000 Ash Vale https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23682 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/podcast/consumed/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-audrey-coble/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-audrey-coble/#respond Wed, 20 May 2026 10:02:16 +0000 Kevin Figueroa Quiñones https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23661 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-audrey-coble/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/creative-nonfiction/art-the-clown-attends-the-jane-hirschfield-poetry-reading-at-the-anchorage-museum/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/creative-nonfiction/art-the-clown-attends-the-jane-hirschfield-poetry-reading-at-the-anchorage-museum/#respond Wed, 20 May 2026 10:01:03 +0000 Audrey Coble https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23678 Terrifier movies accompanies me to poet Jane Hirschfield’s reading at the Anchorage Museum. Sitting next to me in a blue, padded fold-down theater seat, he wears his usual outfit.]]> https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/creative-nonfiction/art-the-clown-attends-the-jane-hirschfield-poetry-reading-at-the-anchorage-museum/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-an-intimate-gaze-at-headless-horror/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-an-intimate-gaze-at-headless-horror/#respond Wed, 13 May 2026 10:05:06 +0000 Eugen Bacon https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23667 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-an-intimate-gaze-at-headless-horror/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/a-magic-kingdom/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/a-magic-kingdom/#respond Wed, 13 May 2026 10:01:22 +0000 Bruce McAllister https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?p=23674 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/a-magic-kingdom/feed/ 0 https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-may-2026/ https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-may-2026/#respond Wed, 06 May 2026 10:05:06 +0000 Wendy N. 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