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		<title>The H Word: The Revolution Will Be Horrorized</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in politically combustible times, when social media posts ignite wars and half of the Western world’s populace seems determined to usher in an apocalypse if only to spite their perceived enemies. Under such fraught circumstances, it might be tempting to disregard writing, reading, and viewing horror fiction and film as relatively feckless pursuits.]]></description>
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		<title>My Parts, Collected</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My foot is hidden under a pile of fallen leaves in a ditch near the highway. My hand, a mile or so away, buried under a shallow layer of dirt in what will be someone’s tulip bed next spring. My head—I don’t know where it is. Strange. Surely it’s what I’m using to think? I focus and my hand lurches, shakes off a coating of soil, lifts onto its fingertips and straggles into the driveway.]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: August 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy N. Wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gardens are pumping out the juiciest tomatoes, corn on the cob is at its peak, and every melon is bulging with sugar water. The days might be the hottest, but with fall on the horizon, the nights are growing longer—and there’s a real sense of eeriness in the lengthening darkness. This month’s offerings celebrate potent sensory experience set against a heightened light and dark.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Quincy Lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Puncekar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was one of the interpreters/co-navigators with a DeafBlind writer at a residency program, so we spent a lot of time together, and in between chatting about books and writing, we folded origami. I’d grown up folding paper cranes, but to fold with my DeafBlind friend required different techniques than making the folds by sight.]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Follows Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quincy Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANNOUNCEMENT: We&#8217;ll be launching our first Kickstarter campaign in more than a decade, to fund Year 17 of Lightspeed and Year 15 of Nightmare. Clicking nightmare-magazine.com/kickstarter will take you to the campaign pre-launch page. Once you&#8217;re there, click the NOTIFY ME ON LAUNCH button so you&#8217;ll be notified when the campaign goes live on September [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement: We&#8217;re Launching a New Kickstarter Soon. Sign up to be notified when it launches!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Joseph Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 15, 2026, we&#8217;ll be launching our first Kickstarter campaign in more than a decade, to fund Year 15 of Nightmare and Year 17 of Lightspeed. Join us for a year of new short fiction from some of the biggest stars in science fiction, fantasy, and horror, including: Travis Baldree Olivie Blake P. Djèlí [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Chloe Lauter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Puncekar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chloe Lauter is a writer and publicist based in Los Angeles. Her debut novel is <i>The Flayed Man</i>, a July 21, 2026 release from Penguin Random House’s Skull House Press imprint.]]></description>
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		<title>A Bargain Made in the Monster’s Shadow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam W. Pisciotta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say a mountain vista looks loveliest in the golden hour, and
lunar landscapes most fully reveal themselves in quarter moons;
light and dark embrace to lift each other.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: S. L. Coney</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devin Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I obtained a degree in clinical psychology, which helps, but I’ve always been adept at imagining other people, the conversations they might have, their reasons and motivations. The degree helped me understand the underpinnings of disordered behavior, but I don’t think it would’ve had as much impact if I hadn’t already been very good at empathy.]]></description>
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		<title>Annette Funicello Is My Dream Mouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. L. Coney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took the rats with me when Ilona kicked me out because I knew she loved them. She’d hold them, caressing their pink tails as she fed them pierogi, their large front teeth scraping against the pads of her fingers. Anton was her favorite, a big black rat that she’d stuff between her breasts and carry around the apartment while reading about microeconomic determinants.]]></description>
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		<title>The H Word: The Walls of the Box</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Berman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Women’s issues horror fiction” has bloomed into its own hot subgenre, and no one is more thrilled than me. On some level, this subgenre arches back across generations (see: the gothic novel)—but I’m referring more specifically the spate of novels that has crashed onto the market since 2021 or so.]]></description>
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		<title>A Nebraskan Choir</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Toase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The engines echo across the emptiness of the plain like a chorale, individual melodies weaving together to create a tune in the voiceless air. We hear them miles away, aeons in the distance, giving us time to prepare for their arrival. By the scratch-wounded clouds of the sunset and the throat-clawing grasp of the grass, we will prepare the house for them.]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: July 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy N. Wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s another terrific issue, packed full of great insights, blood, magic, and creepy rats. I think it’s the perfect counter to room temperature potato salad and overcooked hamburgers. I hope you think so, too!]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Claire Jia-Wen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Finch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote this story, I was mulling over legacy and inheritance, how the way I experience the world now is affected by the way Chinese Americans were treated then. The panic around the bubonic plague resonates with that of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent wave of Asian hate, for instance; questions of femininity and labor persist as well.]]></description>
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		<title>The Plague Comes from Chinatown</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Jia-Wen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your companions drag the coolie girl to her feet. Some two-cent girl with rags for clothes and hair hanging across her face in tangled strings. Her eyelids flutter but do not open, revealing only the white crescents of her sclera. Blood trickles from a gash across her forehead. The ragged skin sickens you like the Devil. Her skull peeks through. This is a lynching.]]></description>
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		<title>Media Reviews: June 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam-Troy Castro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam-Troy Castro compares and contrasts two March releases featuring sister protagonists and uber-wealthy Satanist villain: <em>Ready or Not 2</em> and <em>They Will Kill You.</em> Find out which one has teeth!]]></description>
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		<title>Good Morning, Wolf—</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie M. Wytovich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your mouth is a red door           of blossoming velvet. I knock three times, your belly skinned, an open tender thing. I peel back fur; your insides flower                 wet against my touch.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Izzy Wasserstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Figueroa Quiñones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the attacks aimed at trans people are aimed at removing us from public life. Banning us from restrooms (or forcing us into restrooms where we know we’ll be unsafe), taking away our drivers licenses, forcing us into the closet if we need passports . . .]]></description>
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		<title>Patterns of Dentition in Transgender Adults</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Izzy Wasserstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dryer groans to life, then begins thumping ominously. Maddie, already halfway out of her building’s laundry room, swears under her breath. The machine grinds and shakes. She slams the stop button, trying not to think about what the landlord might charge.]]></description>
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		<title>The H Word: Horror Is the Metal of Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Panatier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write from within the sidelined shadows where the horror genre lurks, I am reminded of the four hours I spent in that busted-ass, stinking shack. The people, the music. <i>The communion</i>. I think about the exploration we do as writers of horror.]]></description>
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		<title>NoMouth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marianne Kirby</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flash Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The videos show people kissing. They press their mouths together and open their lips. Their tongues move, wet and intrusive, less like they are tasting each other than like they want to lay eggs in the protected throats of their lovers.]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: June 2026</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-june-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy N. Wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the first time you ever saw the Xenomorph’s mouth? Those silver, almost human-shaped teeth? The pooling saliva as the maw slowly opened, revealing not a tongue, but a projectile mouth-within-a-mouth? What kind of monster is so hungry it needs <i>a mouth inside its mouth</i>?]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Aishatu Ado</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-aishatu-ado/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clay Vermulm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was absolutely intentional to not just critique the “traditional” three-act structure but to expose its inherent violence through the story’s very bones. For women like Mirlande, who is undocumented, Black, and Haitian, that very structure gaslights on a narrative level.]]></description>
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		<title>What Grows Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aishatu Ado</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have told this story before, and I will tell it again, and each telling grows more teeth. Sometimes thirty-four, thirty-six. Sometimes they multiply faster than your science allows, like every word you made me swallow coming back to bite you.]]></description>
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		<title>Plumbing the Depths: The Origins and Omissions of Apocalyptic Horror</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/plumbing-the-depths-the-origins-and-omissions-of-apocalyptic-horror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 10:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lizzie Wade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four thousand two hundred years ago, an ancient Egyptian scribe named Ipuwer lived through the end of the world. Old Kingdom Egypt, one of the world’s first states and a paragon of balance and order, was collapsing into chaos and violence.]]></description>
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		<title>consumed</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/podcast/consumed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 10:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash Vale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[my lover has peculiar tastes;
her cravings are unnatural.
she apologises for her appetite]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Audrey Coble</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-audrey-coble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 10:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Figueroa Quiñones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read and watch a lot of horror. I’m really interested in the genre and how it provides a vehicle for grappling with experiences that can be difficult to name and contend with otherwise, including experiences of physical porousness, boundarylessness, and vulnerability.]]></description>
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		<title>Art the Clown attends the Jane Hirschfield poetry reading at the Anchorage Museum</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/creative-nonfiction/art-the-clown-attends-the-jane-hirschfield-poetry-reading-at-the-anchorage-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 10:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey Coble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 28th, 2023, Art the Clown from the <i>Terrifier</i> 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.]]></description>
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		<title>The H Word: An Intimate Gaze at Headless Horror</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 10:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugen Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hear of people dying in the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, reaching a twenty-year high in 2025 alone, and this is unsettling. But what particularly chills me to the bone is the February 2026 report on the decapitation of four Haitian women deported from Puerto Rico.]]></description>
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		<title>A Magic Kingdom</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/a-magic-kingdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 10:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce McAllister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I worked at Disneyland in the summer of ’65, it was strange enough even without what I found in the dumpster. This was the sixties, and the Magic Kingdom, no matter how many long-haired hippies it denied admission to, couldn’t escape the decade.]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: May 2026</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-may-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 10:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy N. Wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my tenure as a Portland metro-area resident, I’ve had memberships at my neighborhood video stores, including Hollywood Video (RIP), Blockbuster Video (RIP), Clinton Street Video (RIP), and most recently, Great American Video &#38; Espresso.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Sarah Grey</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-sarah-grey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 10:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Finch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Community is important—essential, even—but community is built on patience, tolerance, adaptability, generosity, understanding. Conformity shatters too easily. Don’t build community on conformity.]]></description>
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		<title>Hollow Cast</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/hollow-cast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 10:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Grey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Sunnyhaven, we were all equally unique—and we’d been that way for years, the morning the New Girl arrived. Now, any of us would’ve admitted it: Sunnyhaven wasn’t perfect. There were no public parks or pools, no families walking their dogs down ash-lined greenbelts.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Dan Coxon</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/interview-dan-coxon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Puncekar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Coxon has won a World Fantasy Award (<i>Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology</i>), a Saboteur Award (<i>Being Dad</i>) and two British Fantasy Awards (<i>Writing the Uncanny</i> and <i>Writing the Future</i>, both co-edited with Richard V. Hirst). He has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards a total of eight times, and was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Awards.]]></description>
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		<title>graveyard of butterflies</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/graveyard-of-butterflies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[in my vision, I taste happiness. I watch the sun’s dance &#38; listen to the music of laughter. I run through a garden &#38; somehow, I am a child again, trying to catch butterflies but they keep slipping through my fingers; like happiness, like love, like everything else I chase.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Avi Burton</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-avi-burton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devin Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big thing is that fish are gross. They are slimy and weird and I hate their creepy eyeballs. They scare me and I think they should scare you, too.]]></description>
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		<title>We Are All in the Same Boat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Burton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We pull in the first wrong thing at two a.m., under a choppy wind and reddening moon. It’s not discovered until two fifty-five a.m, after the great nets have been poured through the processing machines and seas of pelagic fish spill over the lip of the conveyor belt. It’s an apprentice who spots it.]]></description>
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		<title>The H Word: Why Do We Like the Weird?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RSL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I, like many of us, am always scared. A friend of mine once asked me why. And the first thing that came to my head was to show him Junji Ito’s “The Enigma of Amigara Fault<i></i>.”]]></description>
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		<title>The Spiders You Swallow in Your Sleep</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Nikel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flash Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<hr />

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.]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: April 2026</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-april-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy N. Wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We firmly believe that dark fiction is a bulwark against the forces of the world eager to reduce our human experience to dollars and cents. Horror, dark fantasy, and all kinds of weird and bizarre literature is powerful nutrition for the creative soul.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: A.C. Wise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clay Vermulm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think there’s definitely something to the cyclical nature of trope and subversion within storytelling, whether it’s in horror, comedy, romance, or any other genre. The saying goes that there are no new stories under the sun, but there’s always a new way to tell them.]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Girl Trap</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.C. Wise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can know something is a trap and walk right into it anyway. There’s a vicious kind of glee in the snap of steel jaws springing closed, biting through skin and splintering bone. You can think <i>aha, I knew it</i> as you swallow the pain.]]></description>
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		<title>Media Reviews: March 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam-Troy Castro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, Adam-Troy Castro doesn't recommend <em>Primate</em>. 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.]]></description>
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		<title>Zooming Past Shotgun Houses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eva Roslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I captured the sorrow you sent me
like a star
it burned my palm
when it promised to nourish]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Adam-Troy Castro</title>
		<link>https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight/author-spotlight-adam-troy-castro-18/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Puncekar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The writing of the story is an exercise in scaring myself.]]></description>
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		<title>Her Dark Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam-Troy Castro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife sometimes asked what had gone wrong with us. She had always been our bank of compassion, the caretaker of our marriage, the one who diagnosed what was needed to keep us on track, and made sure that it was provided. I evaded the question. How could I tell her that somehow, along the way, she had transformed from the most beautiful person I had ever known to a grotesquerie, something it hurt me to even look at?]]></description>
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		<title>The H Word: Laughing to Swallow My Screams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Habermeyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can pinpoint one of my earliest moments of existential unease. I was nine years old and, defying my religiously conservative parents, snuck into the local movie theater to watch <i>Who Framed Roger Rabbit</i>. 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.]]></description>
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		<title>The Doll Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Liu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one knows where the doll came from. With its blue glass eyes and ribboned hair, it looks like the ones you see at department stores and wonder who the hell buys them. “It’s gonna kill us in our sleep,” Kathy says, slapping Yuki’s hand away when he tries to play with the doll’s horsetail hair.]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: March 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy N. Wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As violence, corporate greed, and international tension rise, we are all asking: What’s really going on beneath the surface of our society? Are we really as safe as we have been led to believe? And holy crap, how f*cked up is everything, really?]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Gordon B. White</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clay Vermulm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve always been interested in the idea of the absurd and doomed endeavor. A useless task undertaken on faith, perhaps, or even just lack of imagination or options is fascinating to me. These are also dramatically interesting situations to put people in and see how they react. Here, as I wrote Bailey and found a counterpoint in Heck, the kind of energy it would take for her specifically to persevere began to emerge.]]></description>
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