BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Alan Wake
"It's not a lake, it's an ocean."
"It's not a lake, it's an ocean."
Alan Wake is a bestselling thriller novelist suffering from a two-year writer's block. He travels to the small town of Bright Falls, Washington with his wife Alice, hoping to find inspiration. Instead, he finds himself trapped in a nightmare where the darkness itself comes alive, and the manuscript pages he doesn't remember writing are coming true.
An ancient evil that dwells in Cauldron Lake. It can possess people, turning them into violent shells called the Taken.
It wants Alan to write it free.
The darkness fears only one thing: light.
It has waited centuries for the right artist.
A small town in the Pacific Northwest. Scenic, quiet, and hiding something terrible beneath the surface.
Alan's primary weapon. Light burns away the darkness.
Alan's wife and anchor to reality.
She arranged the trip to Bright Falls hoping it would help Alan's writer's block.
Now she's missing, taken by the darkness.
Scattered throughout Bright Falls. They describe events before they happen—written by Alan, though he has no memory of writing them.
Possessed townspeople wrapped in darkness.
A poet who lived at Cauldron Lake in the 1970s.
He tried to use the lake's power to save his lover, Barbara Jagger, but instead unleashed the Dark Presence.
Zane wrote himself out of existence to contain it. Or did he?
He appears to Alan as a figure in a diving suit, guiding him through the nightmare.
A volcanic lake with mysterious properties. Artists who visit sometimes create works they don't remember making. The lake is a doorway.
One shot eliminates multiple Taken in a blinding burst.
Alan's best friend and literary agent.
Loyal, sarcastic, and terrified—but he never abandons Alan.
Christmas lights become his armor against the dark.
Sarah Breaker helps Alan despite not understanding.
A Twilight Zone-style TV show within the game. Alan wrote episodes for it. The line between his fiction and reality grows thinner.
A childhood light switch. It banishes monsters.
The novel Alan is writing—or being forced to write.
Each chapter brings the story closer to reality.
The Dark Presence needs a creator, an artist, to give it form.
Alan realizes he must write himself into a trap to save Alice.
Odin and Tor. Aging rock musicians who know more about the darkness than they let on. Their farm holds secrets.
Alan trades places with Alice. She escapes.
"It's an ocean."
The Dark Place is vast, endless.
Alan may never escape.
Or maybe he'll write his way out.
"Stephen King once wrote that nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations. They're antithetical to the poetry of fear." — Alan Wake
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