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Maybe I'll read some of these for Halloween.
Fiction This is Not For You by Gemma Files: 3/5Sideshow by Catherine MacLeod: 2.5/5Unfair Exchange by Pat Cadigan: 2.75/5The Inside and the Outside by Katherine Crighton: 3/5It Feels Better Biting Down by Livia Llewellyn: 2/5Martyrdom by Joyce Carol Oates: 1/5Black and White Sky by Tanith Lee: 3.5/5...Warmer by A. R. Morlan: 3/5 Non-fiction An Historical Overview of Classic Horror Novels by Lucy A. Snyder: 4/5Baby Got Backbone: What Makes Strong Women Kick in Horror Films and TV Shows by Ma
I particularly liked the stories by Gemma Files, Katherine Crighton, and Livia Llewellyn, as well as the re-prints, which were all new to me.
The Destroy Project excited me from the first time I heard about it, but Nightmare magazine is the first of the three issues I've read. I'm not nearly as much of a Horror reader as I am a science fiction and fantasy reader, so go figure.Of the original pieces, It Feels Better Biting Down worked the best. The more narrow focus and creative take on body horror connected with me and creeped me out.The best story, though, was the reprint from Tanith Lee, Black and White Sky. Magpies start inexpl...
4-4.5Precioso.
Several of these stories made me uncomfortable and I'd rather not read them again, so mission accomplished for horror! The editor says that it was an entirely unexpected coincidence that twins feature prominently in many unrelated stories in this edition, but I read it and now I'm having twins. Spoooky.
I wouldn’t normally review a magazine from last month, but the October issue of Nightmare Magazine is something special, and it’s still available. In this issue, Women Destroy Horror! Issue 25 is devoted to horror written by women, the result of a Kickstarter originally intended to help women destroy science fiction (in the June 2014 issue of Lightspeed Magazine) that met its stretch goals. (Full disclosure: I contributed to the Kickstarter.)The guest fiction editor of this issue is Ellen Datlow...
The first story in this issue is "This Is Not For You" by Gemma Files gave me nightmares. It is an amazing, creepy, perfect slice of life worthy of Shirley Jackson. I have to seek out more stories by this author!
As another reviewer said, I wanted to love this issue (as much as I loved its sister issue, Women Destroy Science Fiction), but I couldn't. The fiction was oddly unaffecting -- even the iconic reprints. The roundtable discussion is the main reason to pick this issue up.
Magpies and ladiesboth sinister in large groupsmind your own business.
Meh.
I wanted to love love love this but it was just okay. I didn't find the horror horrifying or scary or even that unsettling (bar a few exceptions).
Some of these were good but holy shit that JCO story. I have never read anything more fucked up in my life and now I can't get it out of my head. Wish I hadn't read it.
So far only read:It Feels Better Biting Down by Livia Llewellyn (pub 2014) - 1.5* wtf I have no idea what that was about. With an illustration like this I was intrigued but the story's meaning went way above my head. illustrator credit to: Reiko Murakami https://www.reikomurakami.com/Twins that are a bit unusual with their "extra finger" curled like a scorpion stinger and their toothsome smile are drawn outside and what they see over their fence becomes absolutely confusing and far out there....
Found some new favorite writers and artists in these pages. Great stories, the article topics were perfectly fitting, and the art was wicked. Highly recommend!
LOVED the Tanith Lee reprint in this.
