This is a creepy dream I had, with an unusually developed narrative. I like this one a lot:
A woman has lost her way while traveling. She wanders into a town and hears a crying child in an abandoned house. Being maternal, she tries to comfort the child. "Are you lost, little one?" The boy is a beast, a soulless monster. "Are you a werewolf?" "Yes." "Are you going to eat me?" "No, as long as you tell me a story..." The boy produces a storybook for the woman to read to him. She reads a story about a jealous prince who curses his brother's kingdom with a plague and turns the king's only son into a beast. The kingdom is shrouded in eternal darkness. But because the evil brother stole a witch's spellbook, the spells do not work properly and he loses control, being consumed with his own magic. Slowly, we see the story the woman is reading is parallel with her own situation. Even though the woman reads from the storybook every day, the story never ends, and with the wolf-boy's constant threats to eat her, she is trapped! One day, the boy demands, "I am lonely. I want a brother." And from the storybook, the woman finds a spell to summon a ghost. Although the presence of the ghost is just as frightening as the wolf-boy, the ghost is a kind, gentle, compassionate child. He is a comfort to the woman. Though the wolf-boy and the ghost are inseparable, the wolf-boy bullies the ghost. Over the years, the three become a tense family. One night, a sheriff invades the house, saying the woman is under arrest for harboring a werewolf. The sheriff is holding a crucifix, which the woman sees is burning him. The woman takes the crucifix from him and presses it to the sheriff's face. He is a vampire. She tortures him, "Tell me where your heart is and your suffering will end." The vampire sheriff points and the woman stakes him. He turns to dust. The story the woman reads reveals the plague over the kingdom is vampirism, and the vampires cannot truly die, even after they are slain. Their ashes return to their graves and resurrect. The only catch is they have no memory of the night they are slain. The catacombs beneath the kingdom are littered with the graves of vampires. Only a spell can finally end them. After many close calls, the woman is finally arrested and put on trial. We see the whole town is all vampires. The kingdom in the storybook and the town the woman is in are one and the same. The judge of the court is not only the king of the vampires, but the king's evil brother. The soulless beast is the heir to the throne and the ghost is his disembodied soul. The woman produces the storybook in vampire-filled court, and the storybook is revealed to be the witch's stolen spellbook. The spellbook has been reunited with it's witch. With it, she cures the plague, wipes out the vampires, restores the prince's soul and clears the darkness. When the witch's spellbook was stolen, she lost her power, her memory, her way. The only wrong she cannot (or will not?) right is cure the new king's lycanthropy.
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