Written by Jonathan Wojcik

NIGHTMARE MENAGERIE 2020, PART III
Guest Art by Duckyworth!

MONSTER BABY

The thought of a huge, realistic, upset baby head eating people with fully grown teeth is pretty horrid, but I like that it just felt like a sad disappointment in this dream. Having the "incorrect" emotional response to something seems pretty common in dreams in general.

THE LAB

I hate that the syringes are "greasy." That's worse than even the rustiness or blood stains you usually get on Nightmare Hospital syringes. The setup of these two weird doctors with a crusty old wooden laboratory on a theater stage is so unique, it's almost more distressingly surreal than the doctors themselves.

THE WOODPECKER

This is definitely one of my new favorites, and already reads like an excellent story. I would genuinely love to see it expanded into a creepypasta; the off-putting mundanity of a very big woodpecker as an antagonist, the strangeness of a child getting blamed for a woodpecker's activities and the overall progression of the narrative all carries surprising amounts of dread. Of the two possible endings, I definitely prefer the subtler one with the bird's dead body in the wall. Could it have been dead all along??