DREAM of the RAREBIT FIEND (1909)

The strip had no continuity or recurring characters, but a recurring theme: a character has a nightmare or other bizarre dream, usually after eating a Welsh rarebit—a cheese-on-toast dish. The character awakens in the closing panel and regrets having eaten the rarebit. The dreams often reveal unflattering sides of the dreamers' psyches—their phobias, hypocrisies, discomforts, and dark fantasies.The strip design was primarily drawn for adults where as Little Nemo was for children. McCay used the pen name Silas when doing this strip.