The murders were only the beginning. No one knew what went on in the sullen, dark house on the hill, but town cop Austyn Bryant intended to find out. The sleepy town of Aberdeen, Washington State was being stalked by an unimaginable evil, it had become the haunting ground for horrors too grisly to be described. Young girls had vanished without a trace. Graves had been opened, corpses unearthed and carried away. Quiet moonlit nights gave way to a mindless slaughter, and to the sounds of hysterical screams...Time was running out. How many more would be dragged off into an endless night, and for what hideous purpose? Fear led to wild speculations about psychopaths, crazed animals, vampires, and werewolves. But Austyn knew better. Deep in the fog-shrouded woods, he had seen the nightmare figures. And the truth was much, much worse...