The main story mode in Alan Wakes American Nightmare is part of the Night Springs TV show fiction and offers an exaggerated pulp action adventure where the horrors of reality have the all too easy habit of coming true. Alan Wake finds himself stuck in an altered reality filled with dangerous shadows; he must leap into action and pursue his evil doppelganger, Mr. Scratch, across the Arizona mesa towards the town of Night Springs. Scratch, a supernatural serial killer, has his evil plans set on Wakes wife, Alice. Wake must learn to control reality itself and unravel the secret to Mr. Scratchs demise while using the power of light to put an end to the darkness.