C’è una cantina sul fondo della notte, che ha le pareti illuminate da mille affreschi e dai colori della fantasia. È la casa di Johnny Freak, Johnny senza gambe, Johnny sordomuto e abbandonato al suo silenzio. Dylan Dog ha un nuovo amico e un nuovo dolore. Chi lo ha ridotto così? Dietro gli occhi del ragazzo, si legge un oceano di tenebra. Una storia di solitudine e orrore che nessuno ha mai raccontato…

Dylan Dog, the Nightmare Investigator is back! When an obscure, sudden illness takes a hold of and tortures the nightmare investigator Dylan Dog, it seems that no one can save him. His only way out may be to face the creature that's killing him, reaching it at the heart of suffering, a place on the very verge of death! Winner of the Best Original Graphic Novel of 2016 by Ghastly Awards!

Nightmares can't hurt you. There's no such thing as the walking dead. Monsters are all in your imagination. We tell ourselves these things to make us feel safe at night, to give us strength against the unknown. But there are things in the dark that can hurt us. Just ask Dylan Dog, an ex-cop who now battles against evil as a "nightmare investigator", Dylan Dog is unlike any private eye you've ever met. If creatures from beyond the unknown are after you, and if you can hire him, he just might save your life.