Review: Excellent, creepy story that works on many levels
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2013
Nightmare Man is a story about an unhappy man troubled by night terrors.  It plays perfectly on the fears that just about everyone has experienced at some point in their life, whether it be of the dark, the closet, the monster under the bed, whatever.  Despite it being relatively short, I felt like I really got to know the protagonist, who is unhappy with the choices he's made, but resigned to the life they have led him to.  The fact that he's willing to endure the terrors when they are just affecting him, but springs immediately into action when they threaten his family, really resonated with me as a father.  The resolution probably didn't need to be spelled out quite as clearly as it was, but that really didn't detract from the whole at all, and the resolution fit the story very well.  This is an outstanding, atmospheric piece that I recommend highly.