Overview

Gloom overhangs Mayhew Manor, touching all who dare enter. One hundred and fifty years of evil is about to be exposed. Curtis Mayhew, last male to bear the name, confronts a forty year old double murder. His wife Agnes is tortured by mental demons and by Ida, the sadistic servant who knows where all the skeletons are. Daughter Dolores is a famous psychologist who doesn't understand her family or her failed marriages. Clifford Brownell arrives to help Agnes through lonely days and terror filled nights. Instead he dashes them all back in time where death and destruction await. Is he an actor in this drama of the macabre, or is he the principal player? Sheriff Renfro is not certain where sanity ends and illusion begins. And what was his dead father's role in these twisted lives? His voyage of discovery is filled with heart stopping thrills, electric shock laughter and sudden fear revelations in this non stop thrill ride through the dark recesses of the mind. This Gothic tale of horror, love and death is sure to brighten a gray day and make restless a still night.