Chris Chandler is on the run from the press and the furious citizens of Beamishstock, Maine. He agrees to house-sit an isolated estate near Lewis, Vermont with a history and a curse that stretches back to the Albigensian Crusade. There, Chris soon learns that one of the town’s prodigal sons, Gilbert Burgoyne, has recently returned with plans for a Goth festival and Grand Guignol Theater, which he’ll fund through the sale…of the dead and dying. In order to save a collection of priceless artifacts and protect the dead of an ancient family, Chris must battle to the death with Burgoyne and his gang of grave robbers. If Chris is to have any chance of survival at all, he'll have to employ a truly ghastly strategy involving an army of vengeful dead. When it comes to ghastly, however, no one can outdo Gilbert Burgoyne. On that, you can bet your life.