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Nightmare Magazine Nightmare is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine edited by Wendy N. Wagner. We believe horror is for everyone! Subscriptions are also available.

Each issue of Nightmare is available on the first of the month as an e-book for all common readers for just $2.99. For those with more patience or without e-readers, we also make our content available FREE to the public over the course of the month, with a new piece released each Wednesday at nightmare-magazine.com. In Nightmare’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams, every month Nightmare brings you a mix of originals and reprints, and featuring a variety of authors—from the bestsellers and award-winners you already know to the best new voices you haven’t heard of yet. When you read Nightmare, it is our hope that you’ll see where horror comes from, where it is now, and where it’s going. Nightmare also includes nonfiction, fiction podcasts, and Q&As with our authors that go behind-the-scenes of their stories. Our current publication schedule each month includes two pieces of original fiction and two fiction reprints, along with a feature interview, an artist gallery showcasing our cover artist, and our monthly column about horror, “The H Word.” We publish ebook issues on the first of every month, which are available for sale in ePub format via our website and also available in other formats such as Kindle and Nook. We also offer subscriptions to our ebook edition in a variety of formats; visit our Subscribe page for more details at http://nightmare-magazine.com/subscribe/. Each issue’s contents are also serialized on our website throughout the month, with new features publishing on the first four Wednesdays of every month.

04/08/2026
04/06/2026

This month's issue is all themed around mouths and teeth! It's a whole lot of fun, even if you're not a dentist. 😉
You can read editor Wendy N. Wagner's editorial if you want to learn why she thinks mouths are so horrifying (link in the comments).

20/05/2026

Today at Nightmare Mag, we're running a 2,089-word experimental creative essay called "Art the Clown attends the Jane Hirschfield poetry reading at the Anchorage Museum" by Audrey Coble. It's thought-provoking, weird, and a little creepy!

13/04/2026

Delighted to see that Sam J. Miller's story "Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead" is a finalist for the Locus Award, and our editor in chief has been nominated for Best Editor.

09/04/2026

New fiction up on the site this week: "The Final Girl Trap" by AC Wise. Fun play with slasher tropes by a terrific writer -- it's a great way to kick off this month's issue!

04/03/2026

If you need a story about a small-town animal control officer just trying to help dogs at the end of the world, do NOT miss "Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights" by Gordon B. White, up today on the site!
(My only regret about this story is that it's not a 900-page novel, because the narrator really deserves that much space.)

23/02/2026

The whole team here is dancing, because Champ Wongsatayanont's story "Autogas Ferryman" (from our Sept '25 issue) is a finalist for the Bram Stoker award!

04/02/2026

We've got a great new story about a haunted apartment up on the site today! "The Ghost in Apartment 5K" is both spooky AND a little sexy, so it's a really fun midweek treat.

01/02/2026

We've received more than 2,500 submissions at Nightmare this submissions period (and we don't close until midnight).

I don't know exactly how I'll get through all these subs, but I do know that if every submitter bought just one issue of the magazine, it would pay for an entire year of content!

07/01/2026

Our first new short story of 2026 is up on the site today: "The Tailors" by Kurt Fawver. Timely and thought-provoking weird fiction!

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