Science-fiction writer Robert Howard, in one of his stories, describes a mysterious house whose roof was home to many pigeons. But only those doomed to die ever saw them. This mystical story has continued in our time, and the heavenly pigeons keep killing—just like in the eponymous book.
Salome Kane, a specialist in parapsychology, hunts the phantom birds that have caused the deaths of more than five people. She is invited to the home of the Bulgin family—where, in the most inexplicable way, people keep dying. Before they die, all of them hear the noise of pigeon wings and the birds’ cries.
Salome’s intuition tells her the culprit isn’t mystical birds at all, but a ruthless killer. He is trying to revive an old legend using an artifact that belonged to a famous writer…