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

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

Author: Adamant Press Language: English Episodes: 100
There's a particular chill that comes from a well-told dark story, a feeling NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE-Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast knows intimately. This audio edition of the critically-acclaimed digital magazine, edited by Wendy N. Wagner, transforms its written pages into a haunting soundscape. Each episode is a curated descent, presenting original short stories and flash fiction that span the entire spectrum of the unsettling. You might find yourself immersed in a classic tale of a haunted house one week, only to be plunged into a tightly-wound narrative of psychological terror the next. The authors featured are as diverse as the horrors they conjure, including celebrated award-winners and compelling new voices you'll be grateful to discover. Produced by Adamant Press, this podcast serves as a monthly audio anthology for those who find fascination in the shadows. It’s more than just an audiobook experience; it’s an invitation to explore the artistry of fear, where the timeless appeal of a campfire ghost story meets the sharp edge of contemporary dark fantasy. Settle in, if you dare, and let the latest issue pull you into its depths.
Episodes
Jessica Luke Garcia | First Girls [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:01
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 great affection for those initial victims who seem to linger hauntingly…
George Sandison  |  The Cut Cares Not for the Flesh [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:16
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 weight surprises him. He pushes at the fabric to force his way in. The…
Somto Ihezue | In Our Bodies, There is Heat [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:30
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 also have to carry our ancestry, our birthplace, in these very bodies. So…
Andrew Snover | The Forgetter [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:39
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 ceiling seventy-five or a hundred feet above a yawning pit in the flo…
Megan Kiekel Anderson | Chase Scene [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:29
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 plunged forward with a guttural battle cry at the start of the chase. His fac…
R.A. Busby | Ten Thousand Crawling Children [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:24
Pregnancy is an infestation. A hidden invasion. An invisible operative sneaks inside you, planting a package of foreign genetic material and forcing you to replicate it trillions of times. Soon, your hostage cell floats…
Ashlee Lhamon |  For All Your Other Daughters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:20
Western texts date the discovery of vagina dentata to 1800 BCE, to the Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus, the oldest medical text in the world. Misalignment of the lower jaw is detailed, for which regular application of date…
Lynette S. Hoag | Bête Noire [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:07
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 motion sensitive cameras flicker on. I see Maker. Maker is not alone. | © 20…
Woody Dismukes  |  The Curse of the Boto Boy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:30
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 into the jungle unabated. I would storm past the hills of fire ants to l…
Sharang Biswas | Waiting for Jonah [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:52
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. Before you turned ten, the inside of Jonah’s room remained as opaque as the inside…