Josh Viola: Nightmares Unhinged

Nightmares: Unhinged

Nightmares come in many forms. Some rend the veil of sleep with heart-stopping madness. Others defy sanity to leave a helpless corner of your mind twitching for release. Sometimes, hours after waking, a nightmare drifts across your memory, tainting your day with wisps of discomfort. Nightmares Unhinged reveals horror in all its mutable forms—abject to absurd—through twenty tales of terror in this horror anthology.

Edited by Joshua Viola.
270 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-9855590-9-0

AMC's Fear The Walking Dead: Season Two inspired by Nightmares Unhinged.

Table of Contents [+]

FOREWORD
Steve Alten

INTRODUCTION
Joshua Viola

THE BROLLACHAN
Steve Rasnic Tem

FANGS
J. V. Kyle

BE SEATED
Keith Ferrell

THE MAN WHO KILLED TEXAS
Stephen Graham Jones

SCARECROWS
Joshua Viola

ZOU GOU
Mario Acevedo

NEEDLES
Joshua Viola and Dean Wyant

THE PROJECTIONIST
Jason Heller

THE WOLF'S PAW
Jeanne C. Stein

DANNIKER'S COFFIN
Keith Ferrell

DEEP WOODS
Aaron Michael Ritchey

DIAMOND WIDOW
Dustin Carpenter

THE CAMERA
Joshua Viola

LOST BALLS
Sean Eads

BATHROOM BREAK
J.V. Kyle

MARGINAL HA'NTS
Edward Bryant

DELICIOSO
Warren Hammond

THE LIBRARIAN
Joshua Viola

GURGLE. GURGLE.
Mario Acevedo

TAKING THE DARE
Gary Jonas

AFTERWORD
Edward Bryant

Nightmares Unhinged one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2016.

Amazon Bestseller, Ranked #1 in Top Paid Fiction Anthologies (May 2017).

"Featuring an impressive line-up of speculative fiction luminaries—Mario Acevedo, Jason Heller, Jeanne C. Stein, Steve Rasnic Tem, Warren Hammond, etc.—this stellar collection of twenty nightmare-inducing short stories is appropriately titled: it's a check-underneath-the-bed-before-you-go-to-sleep kind of anthology."

—Paul Goat Allen

"A slew of gloriously disturbing, well-told tales to unnerve readers."

—Kirkus

"Rarely does such a strong, perfectly-curated anthology hit the shelves."

—Self-Publishing Review

"Filled with stories that tickle the funny bone and send tremors down your spine, Nightmares Unhinged keeps you guessing, thinking and... unsettled."

—IndieReader

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Joshua Viola is an author, artist and film producer based in Denver, Colorado. He is the co-author of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver - The Dead Shall Rise. He has worked on films such as Shrine of Abominations, Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon, and Steven Kostanski's Deathstalker reboot starring Daniel Bernhardt (co-produced by Guns N' Roses' Slash.) In 2024, he formed Bit Bot Media with Klayton (Celldweller) and partnered with Canadian film studio Raven Banner Entertainment and FreakZone Games.

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