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The darkness holds more than dreams in Louisiana... Every night across the bayous and cities of Louisiana, people awaken gasping, paralyzed, crushed by an invisible weight that science cannot fully explain. They speak of shadowy figures, suffocating pressure, and the unmistakable presence of something ancient and malevolent. Meet the Cauchemar—Louisiana's most terrifying sleep spirit.

The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. In Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors, anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores what human traits monsters represent and why they are so ubiquitous in people's imaginations and share so many features across different cultures.