aftershock vs nightmare

aftershock

noun
  • Emotional and physical distress following a traumatic event. 

  • An earthquake that follows in the same vicinity as another, usually larger, earthquake (the "mainshock"). 

  • By extension, any result or consequence following a major event. 

nightmare

noun
  • Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. 

  • A very bad or frightening dream. 

  • A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis. 

verb
  • To have a nightmare. 

How often have the words aftershock and nightmare occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )