Ten of the best nightmares in literature

At the Guardian, John Mullan named ten of the best nightmares in literature.

One novel on the list:

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

"Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire." Captain Ahab lies in his bunk, screaming in his sleep at the terrors that possess him. "A chasm seemed opening in him, from which forked flames and lightnings shot up, and accursed fiends beckoned him to leap down among them." And all because he wants to kill a whale.

Read about the other bad dreams on the list.

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--Marshal Zeringue