She was four years old the first time the man in the mirror told her not to look.

She looked anyway. She always looked. And something at the end of the hallway moved.

FrankiVerse NightMares, Volume 1 is a collection of original horror fiction drawn entirely from the real nightmare archive of author Haleigh Overseth — a lifelong vivid dreamer whose nocturnal life has run, with the fidelity of film, since before she had language adequate to describe it. These are not stories inspired by nightmares. These are the nightmares, shaped into fiction by the hand that survived them.

Inside: a little girl who finally does something about the shadow in her hallway. A woman who keeps drowning in the same car until a stranger in a shop tells her what the car actually is. A boy locked in a house with something that should not be walking. A watcher in a long black cloak whose burned handprints survive long after the witness who saw them. A paranormal investigator who drives into a small town and understands, too late, why they invited him. A woman who stops locking the doors. A student with a perfect memory trapped in a loop that keeps resetting — and the forest that finally lets her out.

No explanations. No resolutions. No reassurance that the thing at the end of the hallway was something ordinary all along.

Just the archive, opened. Just the nightmares, given their proper names and set loose on the page.

FrankiVerse NightMares is published under FrankiVerse Media by author and content creator Haleigh Overseth. Volume 2 is already dreaming.