It waits in dark corners. In your closet. Under your bed.

It hides in the cellar. Waiting, waiting until you least expect-

Mick Winters spent three summers as a child with his aunt in a small, rural town, where everyone is your neighbor. He hasn't been back in twenty years. But when his aunt passes and leaves her house to him with the note "and you know why," he finds the old town exactly the way he remembers. Everything is the same-including the thing in the cellar he tried so hard to forget.

Except the rules have changed. What once lurked in the dark, hiding, only to disappear again if you looked closely, is now more powerful than ever before. And no longer content to lure its victims in. Or to simply scare the hell out of them.

Certain the bizarre deaths in town are tied to his arrival, Mick sets out to fight his childhood fears.

Only now, they have a face...