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    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 89 (February 2020): Nightmare Magazine, #89
    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 89 (February 2020): Nightmare Magazine, #89
    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 89 (February 2020): Nightmare Magazine, #89
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    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 89 (February 2020): Nightmare Magazine, #89

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    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 eighty-nine of NIGHTMARE! Who would have thought reading survey results could be so terrifying? Of course Adam-Troy Castro finds a way--you'll have to check out his latest original short ("Today's Question of the Day in Waverly, Ohio") to find out just how he does it. If you're a parent, 'Pemi Aguda's new short ("Things Boys Do"), will tap into some of your most uncomfortable, late night feelings. And don't worry: if you're not a parent, you'll still be creeped out! We also have reprints by Eden Royce ("Sweetgrass Blood") and Orrin Grey ("No Exit"). Writer Nino Cipri talks about hauntings and their connection to trauma in the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word." Plus we have author spotlights with our authors and a feature interview with Nicole Cushing.

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    PublisherJohn Joseph Adams
    Release dateFeb 1, 2020
    ISBN9781393475934
    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 89 (February 2020): Nightmare Magazine, #89
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    John Joseph Adams

    John Joseph Adams is the series editor of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the editor of the Hugo Award–winning Lightspeed, and of more than forty anthologies, including Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms, The Far Reaches, and Out There Screaming (coedited with Jordan Peele).

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      Nightmare Magazine, Issue 89 (February 2020) - John Joseph Adams

      Nightmare Magazine

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Issue 89, February 2020

      FROM THE EDITOR

      Editorial: February 2020

      FICTION

      Today’s Question of the Day in Waverly, Ohio

      Adam-Troy Castro

      Sweetgrass Blood

      Eden Royce

      Things Boys Do

      ‘Pemi Aguda

      No Exit

      Orrin Grey

      NONFICTION

      The H Word: Scary Stories to Relive in the Dark

      Nino Cipri

      Interview: Nicole Cushing

      Gordon B. White

      AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS

      Adam-Troy Castro

      ‘Pemi Aguda

      MISCELLANY

      Coming Attractions

      Stay Connected

      Subscriptions and Ebooks

      Support Us on Patreon, or How to Become a Dragonrider or Space Wizard

      About the Nightmare Team

      Also Edited by John Joseph Adams

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      From the EditorBEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2018

      Editorial: February 2020

      John Joseph Adams | 151 words

      Welcome to issue eighty-nine of Nightmare!

      Who would have thought reading survey results could be so terrifying? Of course Adam-Troy Castro finds a way—you’ll have to check out his latest original short (Today’s Question of the Day in Waverly, Ohio) to find out just how he does it. If you’re a parent, ’Pemi Aguda’s new short (Things Boys Do), will tap into some of your most uncomfortable, late night feelings. And don’t worry: if you’re not a parent, you’ll still be creeped out! We also have reprints by Eden Royce (Sweetgrass Blood) and Orrin Grey (No Exit).

      Writer Nino Cipri talks about hauntings and their connection to trauma in the latest installment of our column on horror, The H Word. Plus we have author spotlights with our authors and a feature interview with Nicole Cushing. It’s another great issue, all right!

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      John Joseph Adams, in addition to serving as publisher and editor-in-chief of Nightmare, is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, an science fiction and fantasy imprint from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is also the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as the bestselling editor of many other anthologies, including The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, Robot Uprisings, Dead Man’s Hand, Armored, Brave New Worlds, Wastelands, and The Living Dead. Recent projects include: Cosmic Powers, What the #@&% Is That?, Operation Arcana, Loosed Upon the World, Wastelands 2, Press Start to Play, and The Apocalypse Triptych: 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 a finalist eleven times) and is a seven-time World Fantasy Award finalist. John is also the editor and publisher of Lightspeed Magazine and is a producer for Wired.com’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. Find him on Twitter @johnjosephadams.

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      Today’s Question of the Day in Waverly, Ohio

      Adam-Troy Castro | 2008 words

      For today’s question, we visited this small town of about 1700 people. As per our practice of the last six decades, they perceived us as a television news crew, and were compelled to speak truthfully, without artifice, self-consciousness, or concern for the regard of their friends and family. All the interviews took place at the same instant, and all were immediately wiped from memory an instant later, returning the participants to their daily routines. All the responses have been filed away at the central office for later analysis, but we herewith provide a selection of the most compelling.

      Today’s question, suggested by one of our regular followers, was as follows:

      Imagine that you have just been contacted by the Almighty God and given the permanent assignment as the new Lord of Hell. You are now the final authority in charge of torturing sinners for all eternity. No punishment, however cruel, is now beyond your powers; your only limits are the extent of your personal imagination. Assuming that the place as it exists now is the vague subterranean lava pit so beloved of the popular imagination, where the souls of the damned spend all eternity being roasted in pits of flame, and that you are not permitted to simply leave things as is, what would you come up with instead?

      THE ANSWERS:

      Reverend Wallace Henson, 64, First Church of Christ the Redeemer:

      It’s not a job I would want. I’ve never been a cruel man and I’m horrified by the very prospect of having to spend eternity as God’s torturer. I suppose I would make it more about understanding, really. Every damned soul would get an attendant who would counsel them about what they’ve done, the mistakes they’ve made, the people they hurt, the damage they inflicted on the world. I would want to give them all a chance to embrace the loving God, and maybe earn their way into Heaven, but I wouldn’t show them the exit just because they said so. I would have to believe in their sincerity. I guess I could arrange for that to be one of my powers. Anybody who just said, I’ve seen the light, let me out, and didn’t mean it, would have to go straight to the back of the line. And they’d have to be redeemed enough to match whatever evils they committed in life. I don’t know what Hitler would have to do in order to qualify, but if I got the job, I’d have to be wise enough to know. But torture? No, that’s not me. It would be me in Hell, really.

      Dr. Elizabeth Mauth, 47, Periodontist:

      I think being locked up would be the worst thing, ever. So everybody in my Hell would get a private cell, just big enough for them, and I’d close them up, forever, to think about what they’ve done. I’d make the cells soundproof so I didn’t have to listen, and then I don’t know what I would do with my own down time. If I could make Hell anything I wanted it to be, my own home would be a nice house on the beach, under a sunny sky, and I’d have some of the people who weren’t so bad to keep the place clean for me, and keep me company, and they’d have to learn

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