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NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE - Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)

Edited by Wendy N. Wagner, NIGHTMARE is a critically-acclaimed digital magazine of horror and dark f

Episodes

Total: 312

This episode features "A Guide for Your Journey to the Green Hills" by R. K. Duncan (©2024 by R. K.

This episode features "Sumbisori" by Jess Cho (© 2024 by Jess Cho) and "She Sheds Her Skin" by Raven

Something tells you this two-pump station isn’t a contactless kind of place. Google Maps gave up the

This month's Nightmare Short Shots episode features "Possession" by Martins Deep (© 2024 by Martins

Gemma Files | Little Horn

2024/10/9

This whole business, it all started right about when I burned my church down. | © 2024 by Gemma File

My mother sits at the kitchen table in the moonlight, gazing at her folded hands. “Has your father r

This month's Nightmare Short Shots episode features "I Am One of Bluebeard's Dead Wives" by Bella D.

On an unmarked road somewhere in the Appalachians, a midnight blue Cadillac rolled to a stop, gravel

We hear you laughing as you speed by on the interstate. In spite of what you might think of us, we a

This month's Nightmare Short Shots episode features "Painted Surfaces" by Guan Un (© 2024 by Guan Un

Erin Brown | Butter

2024/8/7

Nine years, fifty-two days, seven hours until hyadeic convergence. Kayla watched the hot, empty cake

Haw Par Villa in the rain was a splash of garish color. The dark red footpath, glistening wet. The o

This month's Nightmare Short Shots episode features "Automaton Boy" by Sara S. Messenger (© 2024 by

Thomas Ha | Grottmata

2024/7/3

The soldiers start rounding up us factory girls just before sunrise. | © 2024 by Thomas Ha. Narrated

This poem sprang from its title, a product of old-school random-generator email spam. | © 2024 by So

Ally Wilkes | Billy Blue

2024/6/19

Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there . . . | © 2024 by Ally Wilkes. Narrated by Ju

At the tiny abbey in the province of Tasselt—the only abbey in the region with both an abbot and his

Manish Melwani | MAMMOTH

2024/6/5

If you haven’t seen it yet, you will. | © 2024 by Manish Melwani. Read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn mor

This poem began as a letter from a grandmother to her grandchild. It warns of uncontrollable wickedn

I first saw them one evening in May. I couldn’t tell what they were: small, like kids, like me, but