Nightmare Magazine, Issue 91

by John Joseph Adams, Ben Peek, A.C. Wise

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.

Welcome to issue ninety-one of NIGHTMARE. It's always risky, writing a story about vampires--but Ben Peek spins us a novel take on the monster in his new short "See You on a Dark Night." Millie Ho's new story, "A Moonlit Savagery," uses two different kinds of monster to span the gap between Bangkok and the Toronto suburbs. We also have reprints by Dan Stintzi ("Surrogate") and A.C. Wise ("And the Carnival Leaves Town"). In the "The H Word," Evan Peterson talks about some of the stigmas against mental illness that exist within our genre. Plus we have author spotlights with our authors, and a media review from Adam-Troy Castro.

Genres: Horror

111 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 30, 2020

About the author

John Joseph Adams is the series editor of BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY. He is also the bestselling editor of many other anthologies, such as ROBOT UPRISINGS, DEAD MAN'S HAND, BRAVE NEW WORLDS,WASTELANDS, and THE LIVING DEAD. Recent and forthcoming books include WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT?, OPERATION ARCANA, PRESS START TO PLAY, LOOSED UPON THE WORLD, and THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH (consisting of THE END IS NIGH, THE END IS NOW, and THE END HAS COME). Called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble, John is a two-time winner of the Hugo Award (for which he has been nominated nine times), is a seven-time World Fantasy Award finalist, and served as a judge for the 2015 National Book Award. John is also the editor and publisher of the digital magazines LIGHTSPEED and NIGHTMARE, and is a producer for Wired's THE GEEK'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY podcast. You can find him online at www.johnjosephadams.com and on Twitter @JohnJosephAdams.

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome issue of Nightmare. One of my favorite of this year.

New stories:
See You On a Dark Night by Ben Peek - a vampire is finding a new life partner after the previous one has died. Such a great story.- 4 stars

A Moonlight Savagery by Millie Ho - A vicious ghoul falls in love with a man who ends up using her but she gets her revenge. 4 - stars

Reprints:
Surrogate by Dan Stintzi - What would you do to bring back your loved ones? Sell your limbs? - 3.5

And the Carnival Leaves Town by A.C. Wise - Clues are left about a creepy carnival and an investigator looks into it - 3.5

[Gary · Rating 4 out of 5]

"A Moonlit Savagery" by Millie Ho is on my list of the Best Short SFF of April 2020: https://1000yearplan.com/2020/05/01/t...