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

"A MAGIC KINGDOM" by Bruce McAllister + "Hollow Cast" by Sarah Grey

13 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"graveyard of butterflies" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe + "We Are All In The Same Boat" by Avi Burton

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The Spiders You Swallow in Your Sleep" by Wendy Nikel + "The Final Girl Trap" by A.C. Wise

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Zooming Past Shotgun Houses" by Eva Roslin + "Her Dark Places" by Adam-Troy Castro

25 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The Doll Problem" by Angela Liu + "Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights?" by Gordon B. White

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"when i die" by Matthew Wollin + "Twelve Facts About the Dermestid Beetle" by Marisca Pichette

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Rest Stop" by Pedro Iniguez + "The Ghost in Apartment 5K" by Everdeen Mason

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"At The Sight Of My Grave, I Stumble" by April Elaine Carson + "Jennifer's Daughter" by Sara S. Messenger

28 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Dregs" by R. Diego Martinez + "The Tailors" by Kurt Fawver

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Blacula" by P.C. Verrone + "Shahmeran" by Leyla Hamedi

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Review: When the Baby Sleeps" by Lyndsie Manusos + "The Short History of a Long Forgotten Ill-Fated Telenovela" by Dante Luiz

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Futakuchi onna speaks of the Kamaitachi" by Betsy Aoki + "Bleed For Me, Bro" by Sharang Biswas

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Primordium" by Erica Ruppert + "Make of Your Chest a Place for Birds" by James L. Sutter

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Versions of Yourself That You're Better Off Without" by Aimee Ogden + "Body? Glass" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Stillborn" by Shantell Powell + "Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead" by Sam J Miller

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Blood-Orange" by L.M. Harris + "Safe Face" by Ash Huang

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Finishing Touches" by Adam-Troy Castro + "Autogas Ferryman" by Champ Wongsatayanont

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Bunny Ears" by Kristina Ten

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Eight Ball" by Martin Cahill + "Swallow Test" by Angela Liu + "Turnip Heads" by Pedro Iniguez

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Neighbor’s Cat" by Kevin Varghese + "Hungry Ghosting" by Anne Mai Yee Jansen

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Hearth" by Benjamin Percy + "Asking For It" by Kristi DeMeester

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Wet Dollars" by Daniel Oluremi + "Edgar Addison, the Author of Dévorer (1862-1933)" by Ben Peek

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Eleven Songs for Another Lover" by V.H. Chen + "Here I Go Again" by Lindz McLeod

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Exorcism" by Cassandra Khaw + "Notes From the Graft Failure" by R. Diego Martinez

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Blood of the Idugan" by Lilia Zhang + " Beak" by Ian Muneshwar

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Old Brooklyn Magic" by Ian Li + "Glory Hole" by Neal Auch

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"A Girl Goes on a Date Alone at Night" by Cynthia Gómez + "The Witchdoctor’s Revenge" by Nuzo Onoh

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Touch This Cancer, It Probably Won't Bite" by Josh Pearce + "Pezcara" by Ana Hurtado

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"sharp house" by Samir Sirk Morató + "The Tugwort" by Lincoln Michel

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"in your mind, they still dance" by Ariya Bandy + "In Our Skin" by Kelsea Yu

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Sound a Rabbit Might Make" by Bruce McAllister + "God of the Black Moon" by Dan Stintzi

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Annihilation of Red" by Anuel Rodriguez + "Karabasan" by Leyla Hamedi

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"They Bought a House" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu + "The Morning Room" by Katharine Tyndall

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Introducing: Fear Daily

11 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hi, listeners! Allow us to introduce you to Fear Daily, the brand new retro horror show that takes you into the shadows of the past, unearthing the 1...

"Mnemonic Burning" by Angela Liu + "Before and After" by Steve Rasnic Tem

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Wait, Our Lord the Flayed One Comes" by Tania Chen + "Amelia's Story" by Adam-Troy Castro

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"A Guide for Your Journey to the Green Hills" by R. K. Duncan + "Moon Rabbit Song" by Caroline Hung

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Sumbisori" by Jess Cho + "She Sheds Her Skin" by Raven Jakubowski

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Gilbert | Perfect Water

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Something tells you this two-pump station isn’t a contactless kind of place. Google Maps gave up the ghost several miles ago. You go inside and pay ...

"Possession" by Martins Deep + "NotRob" by Isabel Cañas

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gemma Files | Little Horn

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sam W. Pisciotta | House of the Hidden Moon

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I Am One of Bluebeard's Dead Wives" by Bella D. Bonne + "A Long Time Afterward" by Sonya Taaffe

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Russell Nichols | What Happened to the Crooners

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On an unmarked road somewhere in the Appalachians, a midnight blue Cadillac rolled to a stop, gravel popping under tires, headlights peering out into ...

Cody Goodfellow | Queen of the Rodeo

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We hear you laughing as you speed by on the interstate. In spite of what you might think of us, we are a proud town. We don’t need your understandin...

"Painted Surfaces" by Guan Un + "Witches Sabbath" by Lisa M. Bradley

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Erin Brown | Butter

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nine years, fifty-two days, seven hours until hyadeic convergence. Kayla watched the hot, empty cake pan smoke on the kitchen counter. It was her husb...

Megan Chee | The Museum of Cosmic Retribution

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Haw Par Villa in the rain was a splash of garish color. The dark red footpath, glistening wet. The ornate tiered gate that greeted visitors with a car...

"Automaton Boy" by Sara S. Messenger + "Phantom Taste of Apricot on My Tongue" by Richard Leis

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Ha | Grottmata

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sonya Taaffe | Penis Secrets of the Anunnaki

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ally Wilkes | Billy Blue

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce McAllister | The Dark Devices

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At the tiny abbey in the province of Tasselt—the only abbey in the region with both an abbot and his monks and a dozen nuns as well (a temporary mat...

Manish Melwani | MAMMOTH

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Beatrice Winifred Iker | The Southern Bells

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This poem began as a letter from a grandmother to her grandchild. It warns of uncontrollable wickedness and gifts them wisdom for how to survive despi...

Victor Forna | like blood on the mouths of death

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Carlie St. George | Solve This One, Mrs. Miller

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel David Froid | An Offering from the Void

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is something uniquely squalid and sad about estate sales. To traipse through a cluttered house, one of a teeming crowd here to bear witness to t...

John R. Turner | Ensabled Night

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

James Tatam | Backseat Kiss

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It didn’t come as a surprise when AJ told me she wanted to open our relationship. We’d been an item for four years, but by the middle of the third...

Mark Galarrita | There are three children jumping over a can outside a bodega

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When a nice man with a smart phone camera approaches them. It is also the phone he uses to record his real real reviews of the tacos from the authenti...

Shannon Scott | My Containment

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When the American saw me sitting on a stone in the river, his mouth opened and closed, a brown trout caught on a fishing line. He kept his eyes on me ...

E. Catherine Tobler | The Let Go

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This poem began as flash fiction, and was then whittled even smaller—perhaps ironic, given its subject. I wrote this to explore how we change in a r...

Fatima Taqvi | Our Very Best Selves!

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I like car journeys in the passenger’s seat. They give me time to think and rethink things beyond the shape of my life. I’m not allowed to play mu...

Oyedotun Damilola Muees | A Guide to Camping in the Forest

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Before we left camp, we were informed about the dos and donts for living in our respective communities, considering we were strangers. Happenings that...

Keith Rosson | Second Deaths

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chuck was wire-sick again, so he hobbled up onto Jerome’s porch one sunny afternoon, need curling his spine like a bent clothes hanger. Jerome was t...

[BONUS PODCAST] Nalo Hopkinson | The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John Joseph Adams here, publisher of NIGHTMARE. I recently had the honor and great pleasure of collaborating with Jordan Peele to edit the anthology O...

Adriana C. Grigore | The Mourning of Sam Lillow, the Gardener

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

H.B. Menendez | Preamble to the Death of a Small God

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Her fingers, then, had folded around the clay, her mind entranced. Her fingers traced the soft wetness, pressed gently, pressed firmly, bent, rolled, ...

Jessica Luke Garcia | First Girls

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I wouldn't survive a slasher film. When the killer comes to town and starts popping off fresh-faced coeds, I’d eat it before we hit Act II. I have a...

George Sandison | The Cut Cares Not for the Flesh

07 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As Annie slips into the club, she grins at Robert, all trepidation and excitement. She hardly disturbs the velvet curtains with her passing, so their ...

Somto Ihezue | In Our Bodies, There is Heat

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I was inspired by my body, and bodies in general. What it means for a body to exist in spaces that find it unworthy, unholy. And how sometimes, we als...

Andrew Snover | The Forgetter

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I work in a tall brick room with peaked cathedral ceilings. At one end of the room there is a brick-lined chute, chimneylike, that opens up out of the...

Megan Kiekel Anderson | Chase Scene

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

My little brother once chased me through the house with an ax. He was joking, mostly. But it certainly didn’t feel like a joke at the time. He plung...

R.A. Busby | Ten Thousand Crawling Children

03 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pregnancy is an infestation. A hidden invasion. An invisible operative sneaks inside you, planting a package of foreign genetic material and forcing ...

Ashlee Lhamon | For All Your Other Daughters

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Western texts date the discovery of vagina dentata to 1800 BCE, to the Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus, the oldest medical text in the world. Misalignmen...

Lynette S. Hoag | Bête Noire

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tuesday, June 7, 2022 14:02 GMT. There is movement on the pathway for the first time in 113 days, six hours, four minutes, and five seconds. My motio...

Woody Dismukes | The Curse of the Boto Boy

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Even before my son was born, my village had made of me a black sheep. When I was young, I would slither between the grasp of the Elders and flitter in...

Sharang Biswas | Waiting for Jonah

08 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Once upon a time, there was you and there was Jonah. “Jonah!” you would call out. “Jonah, it’s me! Let me in!” But he’d never let you in....

David Janisch | The Cello in the Cell

18 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dear Andy: The day I was arrested, someone bought the winning Powerball lottery ticket that was worth 1.2 billion dollars. I remember dreaming what I ...

Rachael K. Jones | The Sound of Children Screaming

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You know the one about the Gun. The Gun goes where it wants to. On Thursday morning just after recess, the Gun will walk through the front doors of Th...

Donyae Coles | The Ascension of Magdalene

20 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It felt a little like fucking. Reminded Magdalene of the first time she’d ever let a boy get a hand up her skirt, long before Ben but he didn’t kn...

Nightmare of a Million Faces | Pedro Iniguez

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When the sun plunged beneath the horizon, the striations of red clouds looked like gashes raked across the sky; flayed wounds ready to rain blood on a...

J. Choe | The Girls That Follow

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When he tells me to feed her, I do. And I do despite her cries, and despite the rattle of her chains echoing through the basement. The basement of the...

Nuzo Onoh - Oyili

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kachi stroked the yellow python-eye hidden between the cheeks of his buttocks with a distracted finger. The familiar round smoothness of the hard orb ...

Adam R. Shannon | First in Fear and Then in Pain

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I wouldn’t describe it as waking up. If you’ve been in a car accident, you know the violence. One moment, your life feels the size of your body, m...

Isha Karki | Sell Your Trauma for Salvation

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When you get to the body, it’s still warm. Maybe because you’re exhausted, because your joints are feverish and your chest feels like it’s scrap...

Neal Auch | and its place remembers it no more

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Centuries of war, conquest, and foreign invasion have drawn and redrawn the map of Argia countless times, leaving the country’s boundaries ambiguous...

Ozzie M. Gartrell | The Seconds Between Light and Sound

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The drums sound at first light but you are already awake. Today is the day you will finally meet the Goddess. She’ll either embrace you, ripping you...

Elena Sichrovsky | Goodnight Virginia Bluebells

17 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The call comes when Kaitlyn is at Little Star—the cafe on the corner of Third and Main—picking up lunch for the marketing team: two Caesar salads ...

Keith Rosson | Primal Slap

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jeffrey, chin glazed in grease, leans his head over my cubicle wall and asks me what I’m working on. He slurps something from his bento box---the on...

James Tatam | Jumper

19 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Rampart Hotel towered into the sky. It was hard to believe the building was once considered the flagship symbol for a new boom in southeast touris...

Natasha King | Root Canticle

05 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Be honest, now. What did you think you would find? You have ventured all the way to this cellar, meaning you must have first braved the porch balustr...

Wen-yi Lee | Laura Lau Will Drain You Dry

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The day after the picture of your boobs gets sent around the school, a mosquito lands on your tongue and bursts like a ripe cherry. You are crying in...

Kristina Ten | The Dizzy Room

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mom and Dad all but forced the games on me. It’s hard to believe now. All you hear about these days is how kids don’t want to play water balloons ...

Erik Grove | Home

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One could, if necessary, hide between the studs in your wall. Shoulders, narrower than the gap. Back against the plywood of the exterior panel; chest,...

Dominique Dickey | Who The Final Girl Becomes

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Cinda begins the worst afternoon of her life by hiding in a closet. It’s spring break of her senior year of high school, and she’s rented a cabin...

Katherine Quevedo | Until It Has Your Reflection

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I hold the crayon to the mirror, ready to swipe it across my reflection’s neck just as my husband, Tomas, instructed. Make a quick horizontal line, ...

James L. Sutter | To Cheer as They Leave You Behind

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

She comes early, forcing you to reschedule meetings from the car as Alan drives, white-knuckled. You don’t mind---sending contract notes while in la...

Mari Ness | Wallers

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The day her mother brought Mr. Nelson home, Martha faded into the wallpaper. It seemed the safest thing to do. Martha had never met Mr. Nelson, but sh...

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

Activity Overview

Episodes

"A MAGIC KINGDOM" by Bruce McAllister + "Hollow Cast" by Sarah Grey

"graveyard of butterflies" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe + "We Are All In The Same Boat" by Avi Burton

"The Spiders You Swallow in Your Sleep" by Wendy Nikel + "The Final Girl Trap" by A.C. Wise

"Zooming Past Shotgun Houses" by Eva Roslin + "Her Dark Places" by Adam-Troy Castro

"The Doll Problem" by Angela Liu + "Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights?" by Gordon B. White

"when i die" by Matthew Wollin + "Twelve Facts About the Dermestid Beetle" by Marisca Pichette

"Rest Stop" by Pedro Iniguez + "The Ghost in Apartment 5K" by Everdeen Mason

"At The Sight Of My Grave, I Stumble" by April Elaine Carson + "Jennifer's Daughter" by Sara S. Messenger

"Dregs" by R. Diego Martinez + "The Tailors" by Kurt Fawver

"Blacula" by P.C. Verrone + "Shahmeran" by Leyla Hamedi

"Review: When the Baby Sleeps" by Lyndsie Manusos + "The Short History of a Long Forgotten Ill-Fated Telenovela" by Dante Luiz

"Futakuchi onna speaks of the Kamaitachi" by Betsy Aoki + "Bleed For Me, Bro" by Sharang Biswas

"Primordium" by Erica Ruppert + "Make of Your Chest a Place for Birds" by James L. Sutter

"The Versions of Yourself That You're Better Off Without" by Aimee Ogden + "Body? Glass" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu

"Stillborn" by Shantell Powell + "Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead" by Sam J Miller

"Blood-Orange" by L.M. Harris + "Safe Face" by Ash Huang

"Finishing Touches" by Adam-Troy Castro + "Autogas Ferryman" by Champ Wongsatayanont

"Bunny Ears" by Kristina Ten

"Eight Ball" by Martin Cahill + "Swallow Test" by Angela Liu + "Turnip Heads" by Pedro Iniguez

"The Neighbor’s Cat" by Kevin Varghese + "Hungry Ghosting" by Anne Mai Yee Jansen

"The Hearth" by Benjamin Percy + "Asking For It" by Kristi DeMeester

"Wet Dollars" by Daniel Oluremi + "Edgar Addison, the Author of Dévorer (1862-1933)" by Ben Peek

"Eleven Songs for Another Lover" by V.H. Chen + "Here I Go Again" by Lindz McLeod

"Exorcism" by Cassandra Khaw + "Notes From the Graft Failure" by R. Diego Martinez

"Blood of the Idugan" by Lilia Zhang + " Beak" by Ian Muneshwar

"Old Brooklyn Magic" by Ian Li + "Glory Hole" by Neal Auch

"A Girl Goes on a Date Alone at Night" by Cynthia Gómez + "The Witchdoctor’s Revenge" by Nuzo Onoh

"Touch This Cancer, It Probably Won't Bite" by Josh Pearce + "Pezcara" by Ana Hurtado

"sharp house" by Samir Sirk Morató + "The Tugwort" by Lincoln Michel

"in your mind, they still dance" by Ariya Bandy + "In Our Skin" by Kelsea Yu

"The Sound a Rabbit Might Make" by Bruce McAllister + "God of the Black Moon" by Dan Stintzi

"Annihilation of Red" by Anuel Rodriguez + "Karabasan" by Leyla Hamedi

"They Bought a House" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu + "The Morning Room" by Katharine Tyndall

Introducing: Fear Daily

"Mnemonic Burning" by Angela Liu + "Before and After" by Steve Rasnic Tem

"Wait, Our Lord the Flayed One Comes" by Tania Chen + "Amelia's Story" by Adam-Troy Castro

"A Guide for Your Journey to the Green Hills" by R. K. Duncan + "Moon Rabbit Song" by Caroline Hung

"Sumbisori" by Jess Cho + "She Sheds Her Skin" by Raven Jakubowski

Simon Gilbert | Perfect Water

"Possession" by Martins Deep + "NotRob" by Isabel Cañas

Gemma Files | Little Horn

Sam W. Pisciotta | House of the Hidden Moon

"I Am One of Bluebeard's Dead Wives" by Bella D. Bonne + "A Long Time Afterward" by Sonya Taaffe

Russell Nichols | What Happened to the Crooners

Cody Goodfellow | Queen of the Rodeo

"Painted Surfaces" by Guan Un + "Witches Sabbath" by Lisa M. Bradley

Erin Brown | Butter

Megan Chee | The Museum of Cosmic Retribution

"Automaton Boy" by Sara S. Messenger + "Phantom Taste of Apricot on My Tongue" by Richard Leis

Thomas Ha | Grottmata

Sonya Taaffe | Penis Secrets of the Anunnaki

Ally Wilkes | Billy Blue

Bruce McAllister | The Dark Devices

Manish Melwani | MAMMOTH

Beatrice Winifred Iker | The Southern Bells

Victor Forna | like blood on the mouths of death

Carlie St. George | Solve This One, Mrs. Miller

Daniel David Froid | An Offering from the Void

John R. Turner | Ensabled Night

James Tatam | Backseat Kiss

Mark Galarrita | There are three children jumping over a can outside a bodega

Shannon Scott | My Containment

E. Catherine Tobler | The Let Go

Fatima Taqvi | Our Very Best Selves!

Oyedotun Damilola Muees | A Guide to Camping in the Forest

Keith Rosson | Second Deaths

[BONUS PODCAST] Nalo Hopkinson | The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World

Adriana C. Grigore | The Mourning of Sam Lillow, the Gardener

H.B. Menendez | Preamble to the Death of a Small God

Jessica Luke Garcia | First Girls

George Sandison | The Cut Cares Not for the Flesh

Somto Ihezue | In Our Bodies, There is Heat

Andrew Snover | The Forgetter

Megan Kiekel Anderson | Chase Scene

R.A. Busby | Ten Thousand Crawling Children

Ashlee Lhamon | For All Your Other Daughters

Lynette S. Hoag | Bête Noire