Nightmare Magazine, Issue 130 (July 2023): Nightmare Magazine, #130
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NIGHTMARE is a digital 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 #130 of NIGHTMARE! This month, we have original short fiction from Isha Karki ("Sell Your Trauma for Salvation") and Adam R. Shannon ("First in Fear and Then in Pain"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story ("Anatomy of a Haunted House") from Avi Burton and a poem ("Why Are You Haunted?") from Joan Tierney. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a special review column from Adam-Troy Castro.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Issue 130 (July 2023)
FROM THE EDITOR
Editorial: July 2023
FICTION
Sell Your Trauma for Salvation
Isha Karki
Anatomy of a Haunted House
Avi Burton
First in Fear and Then in Pain
Adam R. Shannon
POETRY
Why Are You Haunted?
Joan Tierney
NONFICTION
The H Word: My Journey into Jewish Horror
Zachary Rosenberg
Book Review: Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Emily Hughes
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS
Isha Karki
Adam R. Shannon
MISCELLANY
Coming Attractions
Stay Connected
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Support Us on Patreon, or How to Become a Dragonrider or Space Wizard
About the Nightmare Team
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From the EditorEditorial: July 2023
Wendy N. Wagner | 924 words
Welcome to Issue #130 of Nightmare Magazine!
When I was a kid, my parents weren’t particularly fussy about what I watched on TV, which meant that as a five-year-old, I was deeply afraid of both nuclear war (thanks, The Day After) and rooms filled with flies (courtesy of The Amityville Horror).
For some reason, The Amityville Horror really struck a youthful nerve. It probably didn’t hurt that my family, like many in the early ’80s, was badly hit by the decade’s brutal recessions. Like the film’s Lutz family, our financial situation caused us to seek out less-than-ideal housing solutions, although I’m happy to report blood never dripped from the walls anywhere we lived. (Mushrooms in the carpets are a different story, however.) Those early years of my life have given me a deep appreciation for a genre of fiction you might call Financial Horror.
Stories in this genre start with bills in the mail or a leaking roof and end with big, grim consequences, especially when financial difficulties slam up against supernatural disasters.
Our two full-length short stories this issue land squarely on the Financial Horror
side of the ledger. In Isha Karki’s story Sell Your Trauma for Salvation,
the narrators struggle to claw out a place for themselves in a world that mirrors ours in economic unfairness—but has some distasteful new dietary trends. The narrator of Adam R. Shannon’s story First in Fear and Then in Pain
is living through her own Amityville Horror-type haunted house crisis.
The hauntings continue in our Horror Lab originals, but be warned: both of these ghost-flavored bonbons have fun and unusual structures. Flash story Anatomy of a Haunted House
from Avi Burton is, well, a study of either anatomy or architecture—you decide. And brace yourself for a creepy poem (or is it a quiz?) in Why Are You Haunted?
by Joan Tierney.
If you love horror new releases, then you already probably know Emily Hughes, whose website ReadJumpScares.com compiles upcoming horror novels. We’re delighted to host her for a fun book review! At The H Word, Zachary Rosenberg delves into the power of horror fiction based on Jewish folk stories, and of course the spotlight team has plumbed the depths of our short story writers’ spooky brains.
It’s another terrifying issue—although maybe not as terrifying as paying your credit card bill.
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