A Nightmare Awakes

John Joseph Adams, Editor

R.J. & Julia Sevin, Publishers

The new online horror magazine Nightmare from publisher John Joseph Adams and Creeping Hemlock Press arrives October 1.

Launched with funding obtained from a successful Kickstarter campaign, Nightmare will be home to a wide range of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.

Issue #1 features all-new fiction by Jonathan Maberry, Laird Barron, Genevieve Valentine and Sarah Langan.

Issue #2, due in November, will contain new fiction from Ramsey Campbell and Desirina Boskovich, as well as classic reprints by award-winning authors Joe Haldeman and Poppy Z. Brite.

Edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams, the monthly Nightmare will run two pieces of original fiction and two fiction reprints, a feature interview, an artist gallery showcasing the cover artist, and “The H Word,” a monthly column about horror. Ebook issues will come out the first of every month and be available for sale in ePub format via the Nightmare website.

Nightmare online will also include nonfiction, fiction podcasts, and author Q&As.

Each issue’s contents will be serialized on the website throughout the month, with new features publishing on the first four Wednesdays of every month.

The full press release follows the jump.

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