Nightmare Hunter

Written and illustrated by Brady Smith

Part of the Maxwell Dark Book Series

Hardcover

$23.99

$22.79

8 - 12

Reading age

208

Page count

GN530L

Lexile measure

Apr 1, 2025

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What's Nightmare Hunter About

Publisher Summary

Maxwell Dark is on a mission to help kids hunt down and defeat the nightmares haunting them in this chilling horror graphic novel filled with monsters and mayhem. A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR I’m Maxwell. Please don’t call me Max. I have a gift that I was born with, although most of the time it feels like a curse. That gift–or curse–allows twelve-year-old Maxwell to sense, experience, and enter other kids’ nightmares. He drifts from town to town, drawn by the darkest dreams, till he can help people defeat whatever is truly haunting them. With seventy-three clients and counting, he’s seen every monster there is to face. Or so he thinks, until he meets Sid. Sid’s dreams start off as typical nightmare fare, but soon they get weirder. Creepier. Impossible to ignore. As Maxwell goes deeper and deeper into Sid’s nightmares, he starts to realize he may be trapped in one of his very own…

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The Creative Behind the Book

Author & Illustrator

Brady Smith

Brady Smith, an illustrator and fine artist, has exhibited his paintings in a number of galleries in Los Angeles, New York City, and Houston. Also an actor and writer, he has appeared in and written numerous TV shows and movies. You’re Missing It! is his first picture book. Brady Smith and Tiffani Thiessen are married with two children, three dogs, eight chickens, and one fish named Goldie Han Solo. They live in the Los Angeles area.