The latest issue of the magazine that celebrates horror fiction with love and a bit of nostalgia

Dead Letter Press has unleashed a third volume of its well-reviewed print magazine Nightmare Abbey, featuring more than a dozen unforgettable terror tales by award-winning writers, plus two photo-illustrated articles devoted to retro horror in prose, film and television, in its large and attractive book-style magazine format.

Nightmare Abbey 3 features new stories of haunted houses, tormented souls, and the creeping unknown by David Surface, Helen Grant, Steve Duffy, Ian Rogers, Ray Cluley, Gary Fry, and Gregory L. Norris, along with reprints by John Llewellyn Probert, Darrell Schweitzer, Maurice Level, Perceval Landon, and E.F. Benson. Matt Cowan surveys classic haunted house tales in his popular Horror Delve series, and John Llewellyn Probert, unbiased and unabashed reviewer at House of Mortal Cinema, revisits Night of the Eagle aka Burn, Witch, Burn—illustrated with dozens of stunning photos.

Nightmare Abbey 3 continues to feature the fabulous art of World Fantasy Award-winner Allen Koszowski, and so much more—all designed to give readers pleasantly chilling and sleepless nights!

The magazine is available online and can also be ordered from your local brick-and-mortar bookstore.

“I wanted to publish the kind of fiction I loved reading late nights, suspenseful and atmospheric stories that gave me the creeps, and a slowly mounting feeling of dread,” Nightmare Abbey editor Tom English told Monster Complex when the first issue came out. “There are so many slightly obscure stories I want to reprint. So many great contemporary writers I want to host in the pages of these mags. And because I do love old SF and Horror movies and TV, articles I want to feature. The sky really is the limit.”

The Washington Post praised the second issue of Nightmare Abbey:

“...Nightmare Abbey from Dead Letter Press, isn’t just an illustrated magazine, it’s a showcase for essays on the horror genre and ‘chilling tales of terror,’ both old and new. In its just-published second issue, Gary Gerani reflects on the TV show Thriller, inimitably hosted by Boris Karloff, while [Tom] English traces the influence of Theodore Sturgeon’s novella ‘It’ on swamp-monster comics. There are also excellent new stories by Helen Grant, Steve Duffy and many others, as well as the older, too-little-known tour de force ‘By One, by Two, and by Three,’ written by Adrian Ross, a Cambridge friend of ghost-story master M.R. James.”

Find issues of the magazine on Amazon:

• Nightmare Abbey Issue #1

• Nightmare Abbey Issue #2

• Nightmare Abbey Issue #3

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