Every small town has a place like the mound. Lovers go there to woo, families picnic on it summer, children sled in winter. For the community of Oscala, New York, the mound has never been dangerous - until now. Something beyond cunning or imagining, something undeniably evil is hiding beneath the mound. The terror comes from out of time, space and the depths of the human mind with its alien needs and desires. It spreads its roots secretively, changing and reshaping reality. It intends to sweep aside all that the good townsfolk love and cherish: their past, their hopes, the promise of their souls. How can ordinary people protect themselves from this evil? Brian Kelly, a physicist still grieving for the hideous death of his first wife and child, suspects that the shell of reality has been torn to allow this monstrosity in. His pregnant second wife, Loi, is ready to dare anything to protect her unborn son. The tough yet vulnerable Ellen Maas, a reporter, must commit to destroying the beast - or die. Bob West, a cop, will turn to the law of the jungle if it will save his family. They must band together to defeat the evil beneath the mound. Cover art by Rob Wood.