A Nightmare on Elm Street: Protege is a novel written by Tim Waggoner. It was first published in 2005.
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Freddy Krueger implants some of his darkness in an unborn child before killing the mother. The baby survives and grows into a young man with a dark side? In the dreamscape, Freddy bonds with the child-now teenager Jerome Starkey-with the potential for great violence and evil. Freddy tutors the boy in the ways of darkness while using him as an agent to wreak havoc in the real world. Eventually the apprentice turns on the master. Can Jerome defeat Freddy without becoming an evil to rival that of his teacher?