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In the dark places of the world, they may persist for years or centuries, every so often going abroad with the setting of the Sun, every so often ensnaring a victim. How many stories have you heard of demons and vampires; ghosts and monsters; phantoms and hags and things that go bump in the night? Each one is a fable, and yet each one contains some true feature of that which lurks in the dark. Our brains cannot process them, nor our eyes see without light, and so we fill in the details; our mythologies give them form and those forms change over time--once a troll, then a devil, now a black-eyed child. Many are the masks of Nightmare. Their shapes and names evolve to fit our fashions, but they themselves remain ever the same.

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