David Nickle

When Mitchell Owen's first and best crush Delilah disappears, Mitchell finds himself the guest at a very strange party, whose hosts know more than a little about Mitchell's burning love, and may know just a bit too much about what happened to the beautiful Delilah. From Monstrous Affections, this tale is part of Stoker Award-winner David Nickle'...

Swamp witch looks after her town like a terrarium full of beloved newts--and the only thing she asks of them is one Saturday night free, to see her man Albert Farmer. But all things must change, and when the mysterious tea-drinking man shows up with a bag full of regrets, swamp witch and her steed dragonfly get ready to fight for what's hers. Fr...

When Michael was a kid, he saw his grandfather fly, unaided, over the family's vegetable garden. As a young man, he is obsessed with learning the old man's secret. But grandfather's nowhere to be found, and his grandmother has secrets of her own. From Monstrous Affections, this tale is part of Stoker Award-winner David Nickle's collection of sho...

Drugs, booze, the music of Led Zeppelin and a fish who prefers Rush turn a weekend jam session into a moment of transcendence and depravity for four old high school friends trying to recapture their glory days. From Monstrous Affections, this tale is part of Stoker Award-winner David Nickle's collection of short fiction about love in all its hor...

Four landscape painters learn that the true cost of inspiration is blood, in the abandoned mines of a Northern Ontario ghost town. From Monstrous Affections, this tale is part of Stoker Award-winner David Nickle's collection of short fiction about love in all its horrific proportions.ChiZine Publications (CZP) curates the best of the bizarre, br...

The mayor holds a news conference, as his city's grief for a child killed in a tragic auto accident grows into something terrible. From Monstrous Affections, this tale is part of Stoker Award-winner David Nickle's collection of short fiction about love in all its horrific proportions.ChiZine Publications (CZP) curates the best of the bizarre, br...

A roadside burger joint is transformed into an arena for a pint-sized battle royale, as gangs of sugared-up Children of the Corn Syrup are goaded on by a demonic child whose taste for mayhem knows no bounds. From Monstrous Affections, this tale is part of Stoker Award-winner David Nickle's collection of short fiction about love in all its horrif...

When Shelly's dad comes home from a stint in jail, he brings with him an unlikely talisman to make sure that everything in the family's life will be sweetness and light from now on. Or else. From Monstrous Affections, this tale is part of Stoker Award-winner David Nickle's collection of short fiction about love in all its horrific proportions.Ch...

Janie has a taste for pulp fiction and a eye for the unseen. On a retreat at a horror writer's island lodge, a wind comes on the lake that offers her a taste for something at once more familiar and forbidden. From Monstrous Affections, this tale is part of Stoker Award-winner David Nickle's collection of short fiction about love in all its horri...

A young bride and her future mother-in-law have a quiet conversation about the true nature of the men they love--and together, learn that the true nature of love may in fact be nothing more a terrible trap. From Monstrous Affections, this tale is part of Stoker Award-winner David Nickle's collection of short fiction about love in all its horrifi...