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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 stori

es 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.

11/07/2025

If you have ever asked "What the heck is Weird fiction?," we have a new essay up on the site by Zachary Gillan called "The H Word: The Profane Illumination of the Weird" -- it's a terrific map of the Weird territory!

09/06/2025

We are so proud of Caroline Hung and Manish Melwani, whose stories ("Moon Rabbit Song" and "MAMMOTH," repectively) from 2024 have been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award!!!

04/06/2025

Fresh new story up on the site: "Here We Go Again," by Lindz McLeod.
First few lines? "This woman—walking alone, at night—is going to be killed. Here I go again." 🔥🔥🔥

30/04/2025

We don't know about the rest of you, but it seems impossible that it's already the last day of April! Don't worry though; you still have a whole week to binge the contents of the April issue before May drops.
April's issue is a wild ride, so be sure to give it a read!

20/11/2024

Delicious new short fiction up on the site today: "Moon Rabbit Song" by Caroline Hung. Dark fantasy time loop story? YES, PLEASE!!!

New H Word essay up today by Sofia Ajram about the power of horror in the face of depression.
13/11/2024

New H Word essay up today by Sofia Ajram about the power of horror in the face of depression.

13/11/2024

New poem up on the site today! Jess Cho says of their poem "Sumbisori":
“Sumbisori” refers to the peculiar exhale of the haenyeo-women divers in the Jeju Province of South Korea. When they surface, they let their breath out as a whistling sound that has always struck me as both a little eerie and a little lonely. It inspired me to examine the intersection between water and air, lingering in that moment before the last breath runs out.

30/10/2024

Your Halloween treat from us is a bite-sized story by Isabel Cañas about hungry doppelgangers: "NotRob." Eat up on the site!

OUT THERE SCREAMING edited by (and me!) is now out there screaming in paperback!https://lnk.to/OutThereScreamingAlso, i...
30/09/2024

OUT THERE SCREAMING edited by
(and me!) is now out there screaming in paperback!
https://lnk.to/OutThereScreaming

Also, it's on deep discount in ebook formats: https://bookbub.com/books/out-there-screaming-by-jordan-peele-and-john-joseph-adams?buy&ebook_deal®ion=us (Might be US-only.)

Edited by the Bram Stoker Award winning writer of Get Out, this New York Times bestseller is not only likely to be the best anthology of [2023], but one for the ages (The Guardian). An electrifying collection that s gruesomely imaginative Essential reading for any horror fan (Publishers Weekly starr...

Ready for this week's wild ride of a short story? Check out Cody Goodfellow's new story "Queen of the Rodeo"!
21/08/2024

Ready for this week's wild ride of a short story? Check out Cody Goodfellow's new story "Queen of the Rodeo"!

New flash fiction up today: "Painted Surfaces" by Guan Un (with an audio performance by Arthur Morey & Nan McNamara).
14/08/2024

New flash fiction up today: "Painted Surfaces" by Guan Un
(with an audio performance by Arthur Morey & Nan McNamara).

Looking for your next great read? Adam-Troy Castro delivers two book recommendations!
26/06/2024

Looking for your next great read? Adam-Troy Castro delivers two book recommendations!

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