"Nightmares come in many forms. Some rend the veil of sleep with heart-stopping madness. Others defy sanity to leave a helpless corner of your mind twitching for release. Sometimes, hours after waking, a nightmare drifts across your memory, tainting your day with wisps of discomfort. Nightmares Unhinged reveals horrors in all its mutable forms--abject to absurd--through twenty tales of terror"--Back cover.;Foreword: terrors in the nights / Steve Alten -- Introduction: reclaim your fears / Joshua Viola -- The Brollachan / Steve Rasnic team -- Fangs / J.V. Kyle -- Be seated / Keith Ferrell -- The man who killed Texas / Stephen Graham Jones -- Scarecrows / Joshua Viola -- Zou Gou / Mario Acevedo -- Needles / Joshua viola & Dean Wyant -- The projectionist / Jason Heller -- The wolf's paw / Jeanne C. Stein -- Danniker's coffin / Keith Ferrell -- Deep woods / Aaron Michael Ritchley -- Diamond widow / Dustin Carpenter -- The camera / Joshua Viola -- Lost balls / Sean Eads -- Bathroom break / J.V. Kyle -- Marginal ha'nts / Edward Bryant -- Delicioso / Warren Hammond -- The librarian / Joshua Viola -- Gurgle. Gurgle / Mario Acevedo -- Taking the dare / Gary Jonas -- Afterword: Melanie Tem, Hubble's child / Edward Byrant.