Where do Nightmares Come From?

I remember the teaching of my masters (may God bless their souls): “against the threatening unknown, when the common knowledge is not enough to understand a situation, the sagacious and pious man will wisely turn to the very roots of his art, the words, their meaning, and the power hidden in each of them”.

“Nightmare” has nothing to do with a “nocturnal female horse”. As in the French Cauchemar or the German Nachtmahr, “mare” here comes from 12th century Middle Dutch and means “ghost” or “demon”. A Nightmare is not a puny fiend sneaking into the bedrooms to suffocate the dreamers, but one of the rarest and most powerful spirit defined by its only purpose: to spread its insidious and unforgiving wrath upon any living soul it may reach. According to my research, no occultist ever successfully banished a Nightmare. But why? Could a Nightmare be more than a ghost? I’m afraid so.

I remember a disturbing poem I read in London in my younger years, about the terrifying abilities of such entity, supposedly able to penetrate the dreams of its targets, to influence their thoughts and perception and make them endure their worst fear. Able even to bend the distance or alter time, creating tantalizing and personalized nightmare its victims can’t hope to escape from. Such a petrifying concept. I pray God with all my heart and soul that this is not what has risen upon us. How would we then escape despair, death and doom? I need more information. But where to find them?

Charles Davenport

Charles might’ve figured out what’s causing harm to New Eden then, but did he ever find the information he needed on it? Did he go into the cemetery unprepared for what happened to him because he was trying to end the curse? Or was he a victim of being in the wrong place, wrong time?

Maybe the Nightmare, if that is what this is we’re dealing with, knew what he was up to an intercepted him?