In The Dark Of The Night

Summer season trip turns into a season in hell for an atypical household who unwittingly stir one thing invisible, insidious, and insatiable from its secret slumber-unleashing a wave of horror solely the darkest evil may create, that solely a grasp of spine-tingling terror like John Saul may orchestrate. For deep within the shadows at the hours of darkness of the evening lurks one thing as huge as life . . . and as actual as dying. It has waited seven years for somebody to come back again to the rambling lakeside home referred to as Pinecrest, which has stood empty since its final proprietor went lacking. For upscale Chicago couple Dan and Merrill Brewster, the outdated midwestern manse is a perfect retreat, and for his or her children, Eric and Marci, it’s the proper place to spend a lazy summer time exploring. Which is how Eric and his teenage associates uncover the curious cache of discarded objects stowed in a hidden room of Pinecrest’s carriage home. The bladeless hacksaws, shadeless lamps, tables with lacking legs, headless axe deal with, and different unremarkable gadgets add as much as a pile of junk. But somebody took the difficulty to stock every nugatory relic in a cryptic ledger. It has all of the makings of an ideal mystery-whispering, coaxing, demanding to be solved. However the extra the boys dedicate themselves to restoring the forgotten possessions and piecing collectively the puzzle behind them, the extra their fascination deepens into obsession. Quickly their days are consumed with tending the unusual, secret collection-while their nights turn into affected by ever extra ghastly goals, nightmares that quickly seep into actuality. And when a horrifying discovery surfaces, so does the chilling truth-about the terrifying occasions that rocked the city seven years earlier than, the mysterious disappearance of Pinecrest’s final resident, and a twisted legacy with a malevolent lifetime of its personal . . . and a bottomless starvation for brand new victims.