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Nightmare magazine is edited by John Joseph Adams. As for the podcast, the stories are produced by Skyboat Media, the most respected independent audio production team on the

West Coast. They are headed by the Audi and Grammy Award-winning narrator Stefan Rignicki and

Gabrielle Dekir. Post-production for the Nightmare Magazine podcast is in association with Jim

Freund. You can check out Skyboat Media's website at skyboatmedia.com. So let's get on with this week's story.

Our next offering for the January issue is Ghost Reaper, or Life After Revenge by Tim Pratt,

the stories read for you by Paul Bamer. Tim Pratt's short fiction has appeared in the

Best American Short Stories, the Year's Best Fantasy, and Other Nice Places. His most recent

collection is Heart and Boot and Other places. His most recent collection is

Heart and Boot and other stories. His work has won a Hugo Award and been nominated for

World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Stoker, Mythiopeic, and Nebula awards. He blogs intermittently at

Tim Pratt.org, where you can also find links to many of his stories. Pratt is also a senior

editor at Locus, the magazine of the

science fiction and fantasy field. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, writer Heather

Shaw, and their son, River. And so ends this week's intro. So without further ado,

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