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Nightmare Hunter #1: A Graphic Novel

by Brady Smith

A nightmare hunter meets a dream he can’t easily leave

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Awards & Recognition

  • Editorial selection

    New York Public Library Best Book of the Year

    Named a New York Public Library Best Book of the Year.

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A nightmare hunter meets a dream he can’t easily leave

Twelve-year-old Maxwell Dark can sense and enter other children’s nightmares, traveling from town to town to help them confront what is haunting them. After working with dozens of clients, he believes he has encountered every kind of monster—until Sid’s dreams grow increasingly strange and disturbing. The case draws Maxwell deeper into Sid’s nightmare and raises a new possibility: he may be caught in one of his own. This graphic novel opens a horror series built around the boundary between helping someone face their fears and becoming entangled in them.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Kids ages 9–12 interested in horror graphic novels
  • Readers who enjoy stories involving monsters and nightmares
  • Readers interested in a young protagonist with a supernatural ability

Themes

Nightmares and fearSupernatural abilitiesHelping othersThe line between dreams and reality

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Book overview

Maxwell Dark is on a mission to help kids hunt down and defeat the nightmares haunting them in this chilling horror graphic novel filled with monsters and mayhem.

A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

I'm Maxwell. Please don't call me Max. I have a gift that I was born with, although most of the time it feels like a curse.

That gift--or curse--allows twelve-year-old Maxwell to sense, experience, and enter other kids' nightmares. He drifts from town to town, drawn by the darkest dreams, till he can help people defeat whatever is truly haunting them. With seventy-three clients and counting, he's seen every monster there is to face.

Or so he thinks, until he meets Sid. Sid's dreams start off as typical nightmare fare, but soon they get weirder. Creepier. Impossible to ignore. As Maxwell goes deeper and deeper into Sid's nightmares, he starts to realize he may be trapped in one of his very own...
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