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''[[The Sandman]]'' has a lot of deliberate nightmare fuel. Several of its characters ''are'' nightmares, and several stories are ''set in''
* ''The Sandman'' #6, "24 Hours", by Neil Gaiman. John Dee, aka Doctor Destiny, was a somewhat campy [[Justice League of America|Justice League]] supervillain who controlled people's dreams and emotions with a special ruby, but he dropped off the radar for about five years in the '80s. When Gaiman revisited the character, we learned that his dream-powers had robbed him of his own ability to sleep, and he had withered away into a shrivelled wretch. He spends the first five issues getting out of Arkham Asylum through no effort of his own and wandering around being creepy but not nightmare-inducingly so. But then he gets his old ruby out of storage. {{spoiler|He walks into a diner--after casually murdering the woman who gave him a ride--and proceeds to use his powers again, bringing out the negative emotions of the six people in the diner with him. It starts with simple aggression and proceeds to graphically-depicted physical violence and willing torture, with the six eventually murdering each other for Dee's pleasure. Dee eventually starts manipulating everyone in the world the same way, but this is actually ''less'' horrific because it isn't shown directly. (We ''do'' see a kid's show recommending that the viewers all slit their wrists... ''along'' the arteries, to make it impossible for them to be bandaged up. Luckily, we don't see any kids actually do this.)}}. It's not at all different in concept from the kind of things supervillains do in regular comics, but the way it was drawn ''so graphically'' made it the single most terrifying comic book this editor has ever read.
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** Some of the other serial killers are also notable. Fun Land can be best described as the [[Furry Fandom|Anthrocon attendee from Hell.]] The Doctor, who makes leather ties from human skin...
* The deformities of the demons, particularly the daughter of Lilith
* ''Season of Mists''. The entire thing with the [[Boarding School of Horrors|Boarding School Of The Damned]]. Childhood abandonment issues and problems with school settings, back to play. All standard fair until the dead start coming back to life, speifically the three older students from World War One, discussing how life isn't
* The horrific cannibal zombie baby
* Ruby's dead body in ''Brief Lives''. Goes into [[Tear Jerker]] territory when you read that this girl had goals.
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* A few issues have High Octane Nightmare Fuel tailored for transgendered people. In ''A Game of You'', for instance, Wanda's nightmare about being forced into surgery. Or in ''A Doll's House,'' the page about a serial killer who targets pre-op transsexuals because they make him "uncomfortable."
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