Chapter I: "The Gardener"
Chapter II: "Déjà Vu"
Chapter III: "Of Sinners, Not Saints"
Chapter IV: "A Night at the Bar"
Chapter V: "Son of a Hundred Maniacs"
Chapter VI: "Dirty Little Secret"
Chapter VII: "Madonna and Child"
Chapter VIII: "The Devil's Price"

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Psychologically, paedophilia is not an illness or a sickness; it is a psychosexual condition.  However, it should be noted that not all paedophiles are criminals.  There are many individuals whom have never acted upon their urges, because they are aware that they are physically/emotionally/psychologically harmful. Some paedophiles have achieved ways to create a more socially acceptable life by being celibate, or medicated/castrated (to subdue the sex drive to a more controllable state), or marrying women whom are younger and/or have child-like qualities. We designed Loretta to be latter. Already twenty-five years younger than Freddy, even at the (present-day) age nineteen or twenty, she meant to have an angel-faced, childish, immature, (pre)pubescent quality about her, both physically and behaviourally. To emphasize this, we chose the irony of the "Catholic schoolgirl," which has become something of a universal fetish and everyman fantasy, and Freddy wouldn't be immune to the mystique of the pig-tailed, short-skirted, candy-chewing Catholic-uniformed schoolgirl either. It's not just for paedophiles anymore. Also, many paedophiles prefer children close to puberty who are sexually inexperienced, which is how they like it, but sexually curious, thus making them easier to target. Loretta is in that confusing cusp where she's not really a girl anymore but not quite a woman either. Nevertheless, we wanted to show that Loretta was not the epitome of innocence and virginity, even before meeting Freddy, and never was. We purposely left the relationship open-ended and ambiguous, because you're not certain if she herself initiated it first, or if Freddy did; it's up to the audience to decide if Loretta is "a good girl who plays bad" or "a bad girl who plays good." (Truthfully, there is only one answer: It is his fault — and he would not deny it, nor would he apologize for it, and that is where the monstrosity of it lies!)

The origin story "The Life and Death of Freddy Krueger" was featured in the novelizations of the first three films (and was reprinted in the Nightmare on Elm Street Companion), detailing Freddy's childhood and early crimes. Marvel Comics actually used this story and expanded upon it. In it, Freddy had no formal schooling, however Freddy's Dead showed him in elementary school while Freddy's Nightmares episode "It's My Party" referenced that he, at least, made it to high school. Despite the subsequent films Dream Warriors, Dream Child, Freddy's Dead, and Freddy's Nightmares completely rewriting the character's origins, "Life and Death" is no longer considered canon, but it still remains fervently popular among fans for decades.

St. Dymphna is the protector of victims of childhood molestation, incest, rape, and child abuse, as well as victims of mental illnesses, psychological disorders, emotional torment, and insanity. Later, you will learn that St. Dymphna Catholic School was formerly known, forty-five years earlier, as St. Dymphna Asylum, based on Westin Hills-Fairview Hospital (or Hathaway House "Our Lady of Sorrows") depicted in Dream Warriors and, briefly, Dream Child. The infamous East Wing of St. Dymphna's, which will be described in greater detail in further chapters, is a conglomerate of the "dungeon" tower of Hathaway House (which was a wing of the original Westin Hills building) where a hundred maniacs were housed) in Dream Child, the abandoned tower of Westin Hills (where Phillip died and later the ghost of Sister Mary Helena was seen) in Dream Warriors, and the run-down, condemned church (from one of Quentin's nightmare sequences) that was deleted from the final cut of the 2010 remake, as seen in the behind-the-scene featurettes. St. Fiacre is the patron of farmers, florists, and gardeners.

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