First they felt it in their dreams. Pleasant jumbles of the days events cascaded suddenly into seething swirling NIGHTMARES! It fed on the fear of those who slept in the colossal building, slowly gaining the power to reach physically past the wall of sleep. Now in the waking world horrible things from tortured dreams stalked the old place, puppets of the growing darkness, shadows that sought human prey! Now called the House of NIGHTMARES by the townsfolk, the old building in Mt. Vernon was abandoned, and deprived of its food, the darkness slept for a time.

Awakened once more by trespassers and thrill seekers, the thing sent its minions to stalk and slay them in the twisting corridors and dark recesses of the building. But it craved more fear than the old house could provide. Sinking deep into the earth it reemerged in Columbus, in the forsaken basement of an ancient factory in the brewery district. Drawn by the dark history of the massive place, the thing cast its will into the dreams and nightmares of the sleeping metropolis. As Halloween approached it would draw victims to its new home and extract their terror by bombarding mind and body with fear made flesh!

Columbus would know they could no longer escape the growing darkness, they would know The House of NIGHTMARES had arrived!