horrible vs nightmare

horrible

noun
  • A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act. 

  • A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles. 

adj
  • Tremendously bad. 

  • Causing horror; terrible; shocking. 

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 horrible and nightmare occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )