The Dark Presence Wakes Up is one of the Collectibles found in Alan Wake. It is one of the pages of the Departure manuscript. This page can only be obtained in Nightmare Mode.
Manuscript Text[]
For a long time, the Dark Presence had been weak, sleeping, nothing but a half-forgotten nightmare or a shadowy flicker in the corner of an eye in the forest at night; not real enough to properly exist, and yet too evocative to fade away completely.
Now it was waking up, the writer like a fly caught in a spider's web, each jerk and kick vibrating the strands that led deep into its lair. It was aware of him now, and it could use him.
All he'd need was a little incentive.
Location[]
The page can be found lying on one of the flat boulders that form a natural bridge over the creek, near the second of the Biltmore Logging Camps.