
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. This month, we have original fiction from Damien Angelica Walters ("This Is the Way I Die") and Adam-Troy Castro ("In the Temple of Celestial Pleasure"), along with reprints by Chesya Burke ("I Make People Do Bad Things") and Miranda Siemienowicz ("Dress Circle"). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a feature interview with Nancy Holder. This issue is sponsored by our friends at Samhain Publishing. This month, look for THE BLUE CLASSROOM by Rod Labbe (of which you can also read an excerpt in our ebook edition this month). You can find more from Samhain at www.samhainpublishing.com.
Authors

Nancy Holder, New York Times Bestselling author of the WICKED Series, has just published CRUSADE - the first book in a new vampire series cowritten with Debbie Viguie. The last book her her Possession series is set to release in March 2011. Nancy was born in Los Altos, California, and her family settled for a time in Walnut Creek. Her father, who taught at Stanford, joined the navy and the family traveled throughout California and lived in Japan for three years. When she was sixteen, she dropped out of high school to become a ballet dancer in Cologne, Germany, and later relocated to Frankfurt Am Main. Eventually she returned to California and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at San Diego with a degree in Communications. Soon after, she began to write; her first sale was a young adult romance novel titled Teach Me to Love. Nancy’s work has appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, LA Times, amazon.com, LOCUS, and other bestseller lists. A four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association, she has also received accolades from the American Library Association, the American Reading Association, the New York Public Library, and Romantic Times. She and Debbie Viguié co-authored the New York Times bestselling series Wicked for Simon and Schuster. They have continued their collaboration with the Crusade series, also for Simon and Schuster, and the Wolf Springs Chronicles for Delacorte (2011.) She is also the author of the young adult horror series Possessions for Razorbill. She has sold many novels and book projects set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Saving Grace, Hellboy, and Smallville universes. She has sold approximately two hundred short stories and essays on writing and popular culture. Her anthology, Outsiders, co-edited with Nancy Kilpatrick, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in 2005. She teaches in the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing Program, offered through the University of Southern Maine. She has previously taught at UCSD and has served on the Clarion Board of Directors. She lives in San Diego, California, with her daughter Belle, their two Corgis, Panda and Tater; and their cats, David and Kittnen Snow. She and Belle are active in Girl Scouts and dog obedience training.



Britt is one of those strange people caught between two cities. Half the year she calls Seattle her home, the other half of the time she's running around the streets of Brooklyn. Currently a student at Pratt Institute, Britt is pursuing a BFA in Creative Writing. Her current projects include a Young Adult, YA Novel, and a blog dedicated to reviewing books with tumblr reaction GIFs. Aside school work she works as the Editor of Pratt Sucess, and as an Editorial Intern for Nightmare and Lightspeed Magazines. Britt also does way too much student, volunteer work. When not writing, Britt can be found drawing strange looking stick-figures. Someday she hopes these stick figures will become a comic book.