Once he has "taken" the nightmare, the victim is left in a state of catatonic emptiness, void of fear but also void of joy, a hollow shell of their former self. In some darker tellings of the tale, the victim eventually becomes a minion of the Nightmaretaker, forever trapped in the limbo between the waking world and the Hell inside the man.
The Nightmaretaker's legend has spread far and wide, a cautionary tale told around flickering candles to frighten children into behaving. Yet, those who claim to have encountered him whisper of a very real, very tangible evil that lurks in the shadows. The Nightmaretaker- The Man Possessed by the Devil
"Refuse," the man said. "And the book will seek another. It will stoop to the indifferent and the cruel. Or you can accept and bend it a little, as you have bent other things. The ledger prefers hands with feeling." Once he has "taken" the nightmare, the victim
This blog post explores " The Nightmaretaker: The Man Possessed by the Devil Yet, those who claim to have encountered him