The Nightmare Box: A Short Story The Nightmare Box

The nightmare box is a short fiction story, dealing with a box or more aptly worded an enigma which is beyond explanation and beyond comprehension held within a box. I think at its heart this story is one that tempts our imagination it forces us to speculate about the box and its contents to consume us with mystery. The unknown is referenced so greatly in this story it tries to show us something inexplicable then capitalize on it by forcing us to focus on it. In the short story The Nightmare Box the reader is introduced to a box which seems to drive everyone who looks inside of it to strange and peculiar behavior most notably suicide and disappearance. We are introduced to the box in a gallery however we found out it was kept in an antique shop before. The owner of the antique shop’s son looks inside of and was robbed of all of his ambition and drive he dropped out of school, stopped working and slowly went insane. A while after we learn that the antique shop owner looks into the box and shortly after commits suicide. The Nightmare Box ends up in the gallery of a man called “Rand” he allows the people in the gallery to look inside the box on nights when his art gallery is open. Cassandra Clark the daughter of Mrs. Clark is at the gallery one night and …show more content…
Our world is a dream. Infinitely fake.” I think his statements are supposed to further reinforce the idea that the box represents the unknown it twist reality so that everything you thought you knew false. In a way I think the story is about being ripped and uprooted from reality. It all connects back to how much we don’t know. I see the box as a window out of the box which we live in it’s not in itself some small unknown part of our world but it is the real world and a glimpse out of our own