A lovely summer day in a small American town—and everything goes as usual, but… the Thing of Darkness that has possessed an eight-year-old boy drains the people of the strength of life… Out of nowhere, a death machine appears—and the air explodes with a burst of gunfire fired at the children… In an instant, the familiar world collapses and becomes real everything that’s most terrifying—both what you can imagine and what even cannot be imagined!