title: Nightmares and Dreamscrapes: Special Edition
author:  Alex Emerson 
description: <div>Alex Emerson lives in New York with his wife and two children. When he&apos;s not busy fixing up his house, he enjoys listening to podcasts, watching hockey, and hugging said wife and children. He&apos;d write something witty here, but he has stories to tell.&#xA0;</div><div></div>
zlib_text: THE DREAM MASTER
   Copyright ©, 1966, by Roger Zelazny
   Shorter magazine version serialized inAmazing Stories asHe Who Shapes, copyright ©, 1964, by
  Ziff-Davis Publish-ing Company.
   All Rights Reserved
    
   To Judy,
   of the hurst of oaks
   with a wolf issuant therefrom
   to the sinister all proper.
   Tidus et audax."
   Printed in U.S.A.
   I
   Lovelyas it was, with the blood and all, Ren-der could sense that it was about to end.
   Therefore, each microsecond would be better off as a minute, he decided—and perhaps the
  temperature should be increased. . . . Somewhere, just at the periphery of every-thing, the darkness
  halted its constriction.
   Something, like a crescendo of subliminal thunders, was arrested at one raging note. That note was a
  distillate of shame and pain, and fear.
   The Forum was stifling.
   Caesar cowered outside the frantic circle. His forearm covered his eyes but it could not stop the seeing,
  not this time.
   The senators had no faces and their garments were spat-tered with blood