A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse, #1)

by L.L. McKinney

Humans were the source of a Nightmare’s strength, and the closer the beasties got to people, the more powerful they became. Humans were the source of everything, really. Wonderland was the literal world of dreams. Now-I-lay-me-down-to-sleep dreams. Good dreams made this world healthy. Bad dreams messed it up. Get enough bad in one place and poof! Nightmare. Maybe not poof. And nightmares … affected people.