Plot summary

Springwood, Ohio, 1999. With every boy and girl now dead at Freddy's razor-sharp-clawed hand, new evidence of one surviving teenager jolts the ethereal master of pain into action. In the meantime, mass psychosis and mysterious suicides decimate the teenage population. As an amnesiac John Doe ends up in a youth shelter a decade after the slaughtering in A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989), compassionate counsellor Maggie Burroughs embarks on a dangerous mission to solve the mystery of the newcomer's dreams. But the hideous dream demon aches to find his long-lost spawn. And as the young victims' nightmares grow deadly by the minute, questions arise. After Freddy finds child, will he retire and pass the torch on to his successor? If the thirst for murder is hereditary, who will send the nightmare maker back to Hell?—Nick Riganas