nightmare vs wraith

nightmare

noun
  • A very bad or frightening dream. 

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

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

verb
  • To have a nightmare. 

wraith

noun
  • A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death. 

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