The Sounds of Nightmares is an audio-fiction series produced by Bandai Namco Europe. The series tells the story of a young girl named Noone who struggles with a nightmare-related disorder.
Description
Noone, a timid young girl, is committed to The Counties Psychiatric Institute due to her ever-worsening nightmare disorder. She is placed under the care of The Counsellor who has dedicated his life to helping kids overcome their ailments, himself a product of childhood trauma. As their sessions unfold, The Counsellor's past and Noone's nightmares are destined to collide.
Chapters
| Chapter | Description |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1: The Workers in the Walls | Noone and The Counsellor meet for the first time. Noone details her nightmare in The Stone Giant and the horrors she witnessed within it. |
| Chapter 2: A Penance at the Bathhouse | Noone details her dream about her visit to The Bathhouse and her encounter with The Candleman. |
| Chapter 3: The Theater of the Mind | Noone explores an abandoned shopping mall where not all is as it seems. |
| Chapter 4: Two of a Kind | Noone describes her journey through a carnival where she meets a group of children who are determined to escape their enslavement. |
| Chapter 5: A Deluge of the Inevitable | Noone attempts to help The Counsellor see into her dream where she explores the sewer with a little friend. |
| Chapter 6: The Lonely Way | The Counsellor makes one final attempt to enter The Nowhere with Noone. |
Characters
- Noone - One of the main protagonists of the story. A young girl who is admitted to the Counties Psychiatric Institute in order to cure herself of her recent chronic and all too realistic nightmares.
- The Counsellor - One of the protagonists, and later deuteragonist of the story. A psychiatrist named Otto who attempts to help Noone overcome her nightmares while battling his own internal conflict over the loss of his sister Cici and her mysterious disappearance.
- The Candleman - The main antagonist of the story, also known as the Ferryman. A Resident who stalks Noone throughout the story and tries to manipulate her into staying in the Nowhere.
- The Workers - A group of Residents from chapter one that appear as child-like shadows, they act as workers inside of the Stone Giant.
- Cici - The Counsellor's long lost older sister, her disappearance in the past has remained a mystery for many years. Cici had spoken to Otto about her own personal encounters with the Ferryman before her disappearance.
- The Prisoners - A group of characters in chapter one, imprisoned inside of the Stone Giant.
- The Child with Gooey Hair - A child that attempts to help Noone escape the Stone Giant in the first chapter of the series.
- The Tall Woman - The main antagonist of the first chapter. A Resident who serves as the keeper of the Stone Giant.
- Jester - A child that Noone befriends during the second chapter.
- The Bathers - A group of bloated Residents in chapter two, they venture to the Bathhouse in an attempt to wash away their sin.
- The Merchants - A group of Residents who work as merchants in the seaside village located in front of the Bathhouse.
- The Kids from Noone's School - A group of children that bullied Noone during her school days.
- The Shopping Mall - The main setting and antagonist of the third chapter. It is a sentient structure that desperately tries to impress Noone in order to keep her from leaving.
- The Counsellor's Professor - A minor character the Counsellor talks about, he was the first to come up with the theory on the existence of the Nowhere. He was marked as a fool and insane for proposing the existence of another world.
- Rehabilitated Children - A group of children that were rehabilitated from the Psychiatric Institute. They appear briefly at the beginning of the fourth chapter.
- The Performing Children - A group of teenagers that appear during the fourth chapter. They are forced to preform at the Carnival.
- Rusty - One of the teenagers that befriends Noone. He tries to enlist her in his plans to escape the Carnival.
- The Man in the Purple Suit - One of two main antagonists of the fourth chapter. A Resident who captures children and forces them to perform at the Carnival.
- The Dummy - One of two main antagonists of the fourth chapter. A Resident who is a living ventriloquist dummy seen sitting on the Man in the Purple Suit's lap.
- The Carnival People - Numerous Residents who attend the Carnival show where the children preform.
- The Naughty Kids - A group of children that serve as supporting antagonists of the fifth chapter. They enjoy observing the misery of those unfortunate enough to be trapped in the Sewer.
- Nomes - A group of small creatures that appear during the fifth chapter. Noone befriends one of them and attempts to protect them from the monsters in the Sewer.
- The Balloon-Headed Man - The main antagonist of the fifth chapter. He wanders around the Sewer finding treasures to hoard in his storage room.
- The Puppet - A minor antagonist from the final chapter. He is seen in the Clothing Room.
- The Perfect Lady - The main antagonist of the dream-recounting portion of the final chapter. She is a mannequin-like Resident that Noone encounters in the Clothing Room.
- The Blurred Children in the Doorframe - A group of children briefly seen in a doorframe in the Threshold during the final chapter.
- Ethan - A child patient of the Counties Psychiatric Institute that briefly appears at the end of the final chapter.
Videos
The Sounds of Nightmares – Announcement Trailer
The Sounds of Nightmares – Chapter 1- The Workers in the Walls
The Sounds of Nightmares – Chapter 2- A Penance at the Bathhouse
The Sounds of Nightmares – Chapter 3- The Theater of the Mind
The Sounds of Nightmares – Chapter 4- Two of a Kind
The Sounds of Nightmares – Chapter 5- A Deluge of the Inevitable
The Sounds of Nightmares – Chapter 6- The Lonely Way
The Sounds of Nightmares-2
The Sounds of Nightmares - Tobias Lilja
Gallery
Promotional Images
An official depiction of some of the items referenced in the series created to celebrate one million listens.
Concept Art
Concepts for the series' cover art created by Justine Clavel.
