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    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 90 (March 2020): Nightmare Magazine, #90
    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 90 (March 2020): Nightmare Magazine, #90
    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 90 (March 2020): Nightmare Magazine, #90
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    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 90 (March 2020): Nightmare Magazine, #90

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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 ninety of NIGHTMARE! We kick off this month's original fiction with a brand-new short from Benjamin Percy ("A Study in Shadows") that's about ethics in science--or what happens when scientists forget about them. Merc Fenn Wolfmoor dives into the territory of the urban legend with their new short story "Flashlight Man." We also have reprints by Nicole D. Sconiers ("Kim") and Carmen Maria Machado ("There and Back Again"). In the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," Paul Jessup whispers to us about death.  Plus, there are author spotlights with our authors and a book review from Terence Taylor.

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    PublisherJohn Joseph Adams
    Release dateMar 1, 2020
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    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 90 (March 2020): Nightmare Magazine, #90
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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 90 (March 2020) - John Joseph Adams

      Nightmare Magazine

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Issue 90, March 2020

      FROM THE EDITOR

      Editorial: March 2020

      FICTION

      A Study in Shadows

      Benjamin Percy

      Kim

      Nicole D. Sconiers

      Flashlight Man

      Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

      There and Back Again

      Carmen Maria Machado

      NONFICTION

      The H Word: The Melancholy Beauty of Terror

      Paul Jessup

      Book Reviews: March 2020

      Terence Taylor

      AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS

      Benjamin Percy

      Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

      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

      Also Edited by John Joseph Adams

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      From the EditorBEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2018

      Editorial: March 2020

      John Joseph Adams | 109 words

      Welcome to issue ninety of Nightmare!

      We kick off this month’s original fiction with a brand-new short from Benjamin Percy (A Study in Shadows) that’s about ethics in science—or what happens when scientists forget about them. Merc Fenn Wolfmoor dives into the territory of the urban legend with their new short story Flashlight Man. We also have reprints by Nicole D. Sconiers (Kim) and Carmen Maria Machado (There and Back Again).

      In the latest installment of our column on horror, The H Word, Paul Jessup whispers to us about death.  Plus, there are author spotlights with our authors and a book review from Terence Taylor.

      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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      A Study in Shadows

      Benjamin Percy | 2159 words

      A year-long study—on the belief in the invisible—was conducted by Dr. Brandon Harrow, an Associate Professor of Psychology at Shadewood University.

      These are some of his raw findings.

      • • • •

      One of Dr. Harrow’s survey groups included a church known as The Dawn Triumphant. The congregation believes we are living in a time of punishing darkness.

      Half of them were told to sit in a bright room for an hour and speak to their gods. The other half were told to sit in a dark room and do the same.

      After a month, every single member of the latter group reported hearing a voice. They called out to Him and received His word in return. When asked by Dr. Harrow to describe the experience, they provided the following descriptions: It was less like a sound and more like an undersound, and It hurt to hear. I felt like my ears were bleeding, and It was like fifty voices all babbling at once but crushed into one voice, and "It didn’t sound like anything. But it felt like something. It felt like the air does when a train rumbles by or a big dog growls."

      If you talk to the dark, Dr. Harrow concluded, the dark talks back.

      • • • •

      Dr. Harrow visited his hometown of Hemlock Haven, Indiana, a place that was unexceptional except for its stained history.

      This was where Phineas Hook grew up. He was a pale boy with white hair and pink eyes and skin so thin, you could see the blue creeks of his veins running beneath it. The other children teased him for his appearance. They called him a monster.

      On October 31st, he proved them right and killed them with a hunting knife he carried around in his candy bucket. One child after another had their throat or belly slit. Their bodies were abandoned on sidewalks and porches, thirty of them altogether, before Phineas was apprehended by the police in the town square while sitting on a bench and eating a bag of Red Vines.

      Ten years later, Dr. Harrow enlisted the help of some local parents. He told them to tell their children that Halloween was canceled. Because Phineas Hook had escaped from the psychiatric ward outside of town. On the anniversary of his killing spree.

      The police were looking for Phineas—that’s what the parents were supposed to tell their children—and they would certainly find him. But for now, everyone needed to stay home.

      The night would still be fun, the parents should promise their children. They invited over all of the neighbors and they gathered in their costumes in the basement of the Meyerson’s home, where they danced to the Monster Mash and ate candy and bobbed for apples and shoved their hands into a cold bowl of spaghetti and pretended it was guts.

      But then something happened. A terrible boom sounded as the door at the top of the stairs swung open and hit the wall. Everyone went quiet.

      From above came a creak of shifted weight. And then a rasping sound

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