Vol. I — No. 3 · The 2026 Season · Cover price 25¢

Nimbus Tales

Shocking new fiction, painted covers and blood-curdling serials — pressed in real ink and mailed to your door every single month.

Shocking! New issue monthly 25¢ on every cover

What's Inside Every Issue

Tales With Teeth

Four brand-new stories an issue — hard-boiled, weird and wired — from writers you'll brag you discovered first.

Covers That Shout

Every issue wrapped in a hand-painted, lurid-as-hell cover you'll want framed. No stock photos. No mercy.

Ink On Paper, Forever

We print it, we bind it, we mail it. A real magazine in your real hands on the first of every month.

How the Press Runs

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    Pick Your Plan

    Choose a tier below. Cancel anytime — no leg-breakers, no fine-print traps.

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    We Press the Ink

    Pulp-stock paper, halftone art and a spine that crackles when you crack it open.

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    It Lands in Your Box

    First of the month, every month — paper in the post, digital in your inbox the same day.

Readers Talk Back

"I hid Issue No. 2 under my mattress so my wife wouldn't steal it. She found it in a day. Now we fight over the mailbox."

Duke M. — subscriber since Vol. I

"The cover alone is worth the quarter. The stories are the ransom note that comes with it."

Vera K. — newsstand regular

"I canceled three streaming services and bought a magazine instead. No regrets — only thunder."

Sam R. — Collector's Vault member

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  • Digital issue every month
  • 12-month story archive
  • Letters-to-the-editor page
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Collector's Vault

$19/month

  • Everything in Double Issue
  • Rare-issue reprints
  • Letterpress print each season
  • Annual hardcover omnibus
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Questions From the Dark

Real paper, real ink, real mailbox. Double Issue and Collector's Vault ship a physical magazine monthly; Newsstand gets the same issue digitally the day it ships.

Yes — one click, no phone calls, no leg-breakers. Your access runs to the end of the month you paid for, then stops clean.

It's the newsstand price of a 1935 issue and our promise of value. Subscriptions start at $4 — the quarter stays on the cover, where it belongs.

Torn, soaked, or swallowed by the mail beast? Send a photo within 30 days and a replacement rides the next post, free of charge.

Nope. Nimbus Tales is rated 13+ — menace, melodrama and the occasional scream. We recommend a strong constitution and a nightlight.

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