6/25/11: Mexico, New York

In upstate New York there is a small town. John Croft will go there to save a boy from nightmares. While John believes he can save the town, Marie knows its is too late.

When John croft arrived in Mexico, New York he was already too late. They expected him and had set a trap to finally do away with him after what he did in New York City. But the acolytes of the dark forces had failed to take into account the return of his dead daughter. Mexico, New York had been dominated by the acolytes of the old gods in one long, hot summer. The citizens of the quiet Upstate New York town didn’t know what had hit them when the hotter than Normal summer came to an end and by Christmas beneath the quiet façade of the town was a sinister and sadistic secret that had affected and changed everyone. This town of less than two thousand people was never going to be the same.

6/22/2011: Marie's Experience after death

In the darkness we huddled. It squeezed around us like a smothering blanket. Through the inkiness we felt the things that wanted us to stay. They pressed the darkness against us and we cried in terror. None of us knew our names. We were featureless and lost. But then it called to me and I knew my name once again. Marie.

I felt the darkness give way and I was being pulled away from the others. They reached for me but they had nothing which to grab me. I screamed that I would be back for them. I told them I would rescue them.

Their cries faded away as the light of this world beckoned to me.

But I would not get away that easy. The monsters that dwelt in the darkness howled in protest of my escape. They lashed out at me and I felt their icy grip and searing gazes as I drifted away from their realm.

There was nothing after death. No names. No shapes. Only darkness. Those I was sent back to help you fight have already won the war. We must find a way to stop them from taking our world as they have so many other worlds.

4/4/11 Marie's visits

More on John Croft. Does it sound like I'm bored with him? I'm not.

John Croft’s daughter, Marie, died when she was 7 years old. During the Nightmare Cometh short story she returns. She was able to re enter this world by hitching a ride on the activities of demons and other supernatural events. The first time he experiences this is when he sees the bum on the street. The next time is when he awakens to the sound of his voice mail and sees the bum in the bathroom mirror. The next time is when he sees her in the car wreck. Then also right before he is alone on the street. He hears her laughter as he is in the nightmare of the empty street. When Mariana showed him her fingers. When he saw the bum in the street on his way to peters. When he drinks the water in Peters office.