Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror
Lincoln Michel, Nadxieli Nieto, Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Lilliam Rivera, Kevin Brockmeier, Rion Amilcar ScottA collection of horror-inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, & emerging writers—edited by Lincoln Michel & Nadxieli Nieto, the twisted minds behind Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery & Murder (Black Balloon, 2018).
In this playful, spine-tingling collection, leading literary & horror writers spin unforgettably chilling tales in only a few pages. Tiny Nightmares brings to life broken-hearted vampires, Uber-taking serial killers, mind-reading witches, & monsters of all imaging, as well as stories that tackle the horrors of our modern world from global warming and racism to social media addiction & online radicalization. Writers such as Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Kevin Brockmeier, & Rion Amilcar Scott expand our understanding of horror fiction with inventive & blood-curdling new tales. We suggest reading with the hall light on and the bedroom door open...
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Lincoln Michel is the author of the story collection Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press, 2015), which was named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed & reviewed in the New York Times; Vanity Fair; O, The Oprah Magazine; Tor.com & elsewhere. His fiction & poetry appear in The Paris Review, Granta, Tin House, Strange Horizons, Vice's Motherboard, & the Pushcart Prize anthology. His essays & criticism have been published by The New York Times, GQ, Rolling Stone, & The Guardian. He is the former editor-in-chief of Electric Literature. He is the co-editor of the science fiction anthology Gigantic Worlds (Gigantic Books 2015), the flash noir anthology Tiny Crimes (Catapult, 2018), & the forthcoming horror anthology Tiny Nightmares (Catapult, 2020).