The Darkness

The Darkness is one of the Collectibles found in Alan Wake's American Nightmare. It is one of the pages of the Return manuscript.

Manuscript text[]

The darkness rose from the depths of Cauldron Lake and took Alice. It needed words. It needed me to write its way into our world. She was leverage, a hostage.

I complied, but with a twist -- I put in a loophole that gave me a chance to fight back. I was hunted by shadowy enemies, but I faced the darkness. I fought it with light. I drove it back. I saved Alice. But it came with a cost: I was trapped in the Dark Place below Cauldron Lake.

Location[]

This page can be found on the edge of the cliff behind the main storage building, near Dr. Rachel Meadow's car.

Manuscript Pages (Alan Wake's American Nightmare)
Note: The number next to the page indicates the act in which they can be found.
Rest Stop	Alan Wake, the Writer¹ • Hunting Mr. Scratch¹ • Rewriting Reality¹ • The Devil is in the Details¹ • The Splitter¹ • Too Many Legs¹ • The Twisted Mirror¹ • New Reality: The Satellite¹ • The Appearance of Mr. Scratch² • Pages and Instincts¹ • My Best Friend² • Wake's Friends² • Night Springs, the Cult TV Show² • Night Springs, Arizona² • The Spectre² • Emma Sloan² • Old Gods of Asgard³ • Barry and the Old Gods³ • Old Gods in the Studio³ • The Giant³ • Emma and Mr. Scratch³
Observatory	Success¹ • Pressure¹ • The Genesis of Mr. Scratch¹ • Fighting the Taken¹ • The Spiders¹ • New Reality: Fragment 1¹ • The Darkness² • Lost in the Dark Place² • The Nature of Stories² • Cosmological Truths² • The Taken² • Dr. Meadows² • New Reality: Fragment 2² • Everything Is as Real as Everything Else³ • Dr. Meadows and Mr. Scratch³ • New Reality: Fragment 3³
Drive-In Theater	Bright Falls¹ • Alice¹ • What Really Matters¹ • The Grenadier¹ • A Car in Flight¹ • Survival in the Dark Place² • Equilibrium² • The Doppelganger² • Mr. Scratch's Trap² • The Plan² • The Dangers of Creation² • Serena Valdivia² • Focusing the Beam³ • Serena and Mr. Scratch³ • The Clothes³ • Alice's Film³