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    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 102 (March 2021): Nightmare Magazine, #102
    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 102 (March 2021): Nightmare Magazine, #102
    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 102 (March 2021): Nightmare Magazine, #102
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    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 102 (March 2021): Nightmare Magazine, #102

    By Wendy N. Wagner

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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 one hundred and two of NIGHTMARE! This month we have original short fiction from Woody Dismukes ("A Cast of Liches") and Joanna Parypinski ("It Accumulates"). "The Horror Lab" includes a flash story by Michael Kelly ("That Which Crawls from Dark Soil") and a poem by Meg Elison ("Modern Promethea"). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a media review.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAdamant Press
    Release dateMar 1, 2021
    ISBN9781393955252
    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 102 (March 2021): Nightmare Magazine, #102

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      Nightmare Magazine, Issue 102 (March 2021) - Wendy N. Wagner

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Issue 102, March 2021

      FROM THE EDITOR

      Editorial: March 2021

      FICTION

      A Cast of Liches

      Woody Dismukes

      That Which Crawls from Dark Soil

      Michael Kelly

      It Accumulates

      Joanna Parypinski

      Modern Promethea

      Meg Elison

      NONFICTION

      The H Word: Better Living Through Horror

      Donald McCarthy

      Media Review: March 2021

      Ed Grabianowski

      AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS

      Woody Dismukes

      Joanna Parypinski

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      From the EditorBEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2018

      Editorial: March 2021

      Wendy N. Wagner | 1115 words

      Welcome to issue 102 of Nightmare!

      In the Northern hemisphere, March is the first month of spring. Where I live, it’s the month when the dead gray sticks surrounding the house suddenly transform into living trees, all green leaves and pink flowers. Perennials spring up from the dull muddy earth, turning brown to viridian. It is a season of transformation, when magic feels possible, and anything might happen.

      The work in this month’s issue all touches on transformation and change. Our first short story is Woody Dismukes’ A Cast of Liches, a story of racial injustice and revenge. And, of course, liches. We don’t talk about liches nearly enough—their cousin the zombie gets far more attention. But the lich is a much more interesting creature, a human willfully transformed into something undead and powerful. I think Dismukes’ liches are particularly motivated and interesting, and I look forward to sharing them with you all.

      Joanna Parypinski has her fourth Nightmare appearance with her story It Accumulates. If you’ve ever opened a closet door and wondered how you crammed so much junk into such a small space, then this story will really speak to you. As for the transformative element? I certainly won’t spoil it, but I will understand if after you’ve read this one, you can’t sleep with the closet door open.

      Our flash story this month, the very unsettling That Which Crawls from Dark Soil is from Michael Kelly. And Meg Elison returns to Nightmare with the beautiful and touching poem Modern Promethea.

      In the latest installment of The H Word, Donald McCarthy talks about the ways horror has helped him cope with mental illness. We also have a special review of the movie Hunter Hunter, and of course we have author spotlight interviews with our short fiction writers.

      We’re continuing our staff interviews with a discussion with our delightful proofreader, Devin Marcus. Devin has recently stepped up to join our author spotlighting team (you can enjoy his work this issue, where he interviews Woody Dismukes). I asked Devin a few questions about working here.

      How did you get started working with Nightmare?

      Honestly, I kind of came up to John out of nowhere back in college and sent a random email asking if he’d be willing to take me on in whatever position he needed. I was pretty darn amazed when he actually responded! He gave me a quick proofreading test and set me to work manning the slush pile, which I did for about a year, maybe a bit more. After a while, I wanted to get more hands-on, so I asked if I could start proofreading both Lightspeed and Nightmare. I love proofreading; it probably says something about me that I could pore through text looking for tiny minutiae all day and enjoy every second of it! John said yes, of course, and here we are just about five years later! I’ve even recently taken up conducting interviews with some of our featured authors, which I’m very excited about!

      What’s your favorite part of your work here?

      I mean, there’s a lot to enjoy, honestly. Getting to read all of these amazing stories monthly is a reward in and of itself, not to mention that these stories often inspire me in my own writing. Everybody on the staff is so dedicated to featuring, exploring, and advancing the horror genre in exciting new ways, and you can see the work that’s been put in every issue, from cover to cover. I even pick up tips from our review section from time to time; as an example, I grabbed Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark over the holidays on the recommendation of one of our reviewers, and it’s one of the most entertaining books I’ve read in the last year! It doesn’t hurt that I get to feel like I’m helping to give these authors the platform they so deeply deserve, in whatever way I can.

      Would you call yourself a horror fan? If so, what brings you to the genre?

      Absolutely I am! I have been ever since the dual-pronged attack of Stephen Gammell’s amazing illustrations in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and a beat-up VHS copy of Scooby Doo on Zombie Island, both of which I was introduced to

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