Women Destroy Horror!
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.
Funded as a stretch goal of our sister-magazine LIGHTSPEED’s Women Destroy Science Fiction! Kickstarter campaign, we’re happy to present a special issue of NIGHTMARE called Women Destroy Horror!: an all-horror extravaganza entirely written—and edited!—by women, and guest-edited by legendary editor Ellen Datlow!
Content available to read free on our website is linked below. All other content is exclusive to the complete edition, available as an ebook or trade paperback.
Table of Contents
Content available to read free on our website is linked below. All other content is exclusive to the complete edition, available as an ebook or trade paperback.
FROM THE EDITORS – Ellen Datlow, Lisa Morton, and Wendy N. Wagner
ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION – edited by Ellen Datlow
- This Is Not for You by Gemma Files
- Sideshow by Catherine MacLeod
- Unfair Exchange by Pat Cadigan
- The Inside and the Outside by Katherine Crighton
- It Feels Better Biting Down by Livia Llewellyn
REPRINT SHORT FICTION – selected by Ellen Datlow
- Martyrdom by Joyce Carol Oates
- Black and White Sky by Tanith Lee
- . . . Warmer by A.R. Morlan
NOVELLA EXCERPT – presented by Samhain Publishing
- Linden Manor by Catherine Cavendish
NONFICTION – edited by Lisa Morton
- Artists Showcase: Five Women Artists Who Are Destroying Horror Art by Galen Dara
- Artist Gallery featuring Carly Janine Mazur, Reiko Murakami, Sam Guay, Shelby Nichols, and Stacy Nguyen
- Interview: Joyce Carol Oates by Lisa Morton
- Interview: Jessica Sharzer by Lisa Morton
- An Historical Overview of Classic Horror Novels by Lucy A. Snyder
- Baby Got Backbone: What Makes Strong Women Kick in Horror Films and TV Shows by Maria Alexander
- Women Destroy Horror! Roundtable Interview by Lisa Morton, with Linda Addison, Kate Jonez, Helen Marshall, and Rena Mason
- The H Word: The H is for Harassment (a/k/a Horror’s Misogyny Problem) by Chesya Burke
- Women’s Short Horror Fiction: An Historical Overview by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS – edited by Erika Holt
with contributors Erika Holt, Lisa Nohealani Morton, Jude Griffin, Wendy N. Wagner, and Caroline Ratajski
- Gemma Files
- Catherine MacLeod
- Katherine Crighton
- Livia Llewellyn
- Joyce Carol Oates
- A.R. Morlan
ILLUSTRATORS – art direction by Galen Dara
- Shelby Nichols (“This Is Not for You”)
- Sam Guay (“Unfair Exchange”)
- Reiko Murakami (“It Feels Better Biting Down”)
- Stacy Nguyen (“. . . Warmer”)
- Carly Janine Mazur (cover artist)
PODCASTS – produced by Gabrielle de Cuir
(Click “Listen” in top right corner of the story’s page to download or launch player)
- This Is Not for You by Gemma Files
- It Feels Better Biting Down by Livia Llewellyn