Twenty-year-old Stanley Wade is found hanged in an abandoned house in the town of Dark Mount, where he had been living for the last few weeks. However, what happened doesn’t look like a plain suicide: mirrors are arranged around the bed, allowing one to see what is going on under it, and all the glass in the old house is coated with reflective paint. Stanley Wade’s friends unanimously claim that shortly before his death the young man began behaving very strangely, then cut off all contacts and disappeared. When Frank Miller arrives, he finds evidence suggesting one thing: Wade was trying to protect himself from something unnatural…