I had an odd dream, but I can link a lot of the content (but not all) to things that had happened or I'd heard/seen that day. You might call this a nightmare.
I was on a grassless peat moor, digging with a wooden handled spade. There was a medium-sized wooden barn behind me and one or two small shacks/outhouses some way in front of me. I walked to the nearest rise and looked down at a depression, like the centre of an old volcano. The earth was cracked and steam was gently rising from some of the cracks. I could see red-orange light through some of them.
Turning back around, I saw a group of people, likely a school trip, walking along the fence bordering this land. As they went behind the barn, I went to close the gate so they wouldn't come through. I closed the gate and because there was no real latch I began to lift heavy objects to keep the gate shut. I'd just finished by the time the group arrived and the chaperone (who looked like actress Olivia Wilde) came to the gate and began talking to me. I told her (amicably) that they shouldn't be here, and we should be wary of the Faceless Man.
At this point she looked down at my hands. Lifting them to see what she was looking at, I saw my fingertips were dripping in fresh blood. I paused for a second, trying to remember why there was blood. Without saying a word, she walked back and led the group away, and I walked back towards one of the outbuildings. I pulled on the door (unusually with my left hand) and it opened some way before it hit something and wouldn't open further.
I became aware that the Faceless Man was right next to me. He was tall but hunched over, skeletally thin, with his arms contorted up to his chest. He was entirely hairless and had claws or claw-like finger- and toe-nails, as well as pointed teeth. He was called the Faceless Man for good reason - it wasn't a smooth featurless skull, or the bloody musculature of missing skin, or even the blackness of a void. He had no face in a way you couldn't see. Except he had apparently already found a few victims, because I could see, stitched to his face, the eye and cheek of one victim, and the nose of another. His head was mere inches away from my ear, and I could hear his rattling pant.
Then I woke up. Some part of that must have reminded me of a previous dream, because I spent a good 10 minutes walking through the mansions and streets of dreams I had years ago. I had a vague memory of the Faceless Man being in those dark and musty rooms, but it could be a false memory.
EDIT: for grammar & spelling
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