Lanternhead

Along the Duskborder there is no myth more prevalent, and equally ridiculed than the myth of Lanternhead.
Few people can agree on much regarding the myth, as each re-telling changes with the storyteller. The elements that remain consistent are of a large person that has a great glowing light the emanates seemingly from where the it's face should be. This light can either blind, hypnotize, paralyze, or even kill a person depending on the telling. Typically after disabling it's victim, Lanternhead drags the person away into the dark of the sunless west.
The story of Lanternhead is mostly considered to be a story parents tell their children to keep them from wandering off beyond the Duskborder. Occasionally, and usually as a joke, Lanternhead is the culprit behind agents of the Order of the Lantern abandoning their posts. The third, and more rare story, are those who claim to have actually seen Lanternhead, and lived to tell the tale. This category of storyteller is met with derision, and is often considered either crazy or full of shit.

Summary

Those folly enough to wander to far west of the Duskborder often get lost. Too far from eastward sun, many people have trouble navigating the dark. These people quickly become lost.
It is in these desperate moments that along a horizon these lost people see a light. Believing it to be the the sunlight they were searching for, those people will often rush towards it. Only too late do they discover that the source of light is a the shape of a person, towering over them, with no face, but a blinding light.
Those people become overwhelmed by the intense light, and are dragged away, further into the dark.

Spread

This is a common ghost story told to children, and is often the blunt of some dirtier jokes among the Order of the Lantern. Outside of the states along the Duskborder, it is completely unknown. Even some of the farther eastward cities in those states, the myth is relatively unknown.

In Literature

No written works, just oral tradition.