Being a writer is tempting, and being famous is even more dangerous. That’s what Morton Raine realized one time when he opened the door of his country house to a man in a hat. Farmer John Shooter accused the author of plagiarism and offered to handle it without witnesses—just to make sure.
An irrational nightmare was Morton Raine’s profession: it’s hard to scare a writer of “horror” novels… hard, but possible. And now the sticky web of fear tightens around the writer, because he realizes that, step by step, he is turning into a ruthless murderer-monster… a character he himself has invented. Evil, named out loud, comes to life and begins its bloody work…