The Nightmare And The Children

When the children went to sleep, the Nightmare began to play his keyboard. Their bodies slept and all seemed well, but their souls left their bodies and rode on the back of the spiral night dog, up and up the hill to where the Nightmare was playing.

They laughed as they rode, not knowing that the Nightmare had plans to take them and feed them to the spiral night dog, so it would become even bigger to bring the Nightmare even more souls.

The Nightmare had no reason for doing this, but he still played his music and would not stop because he had once been a child and mourned the loss of his childhood, and poured his grief into his playing and growing the spiral night dog.

The Nightmare was once a child, but was now a demon who played on top of the cursed hill.