The time is the present. The place is the New Hampshire town of
Blackstone, a peaceful picture postcard village with a shattering,
painful past. For here, high on North Hill stands the old Blackstone
Asylum, once the home of the deranged, the unmanageable, and the merely
inconvenient. Long abandoned, the building is scheduled for
demolition. Yet something halts those plans-and a terrible evil, once
locked within its formidable stone walls, lurches into the night. Its
horrifying power takes on many forms: appearing as seemingly harmless
gifts, mysteriously delivered to various members of the Blackstone
community. The first is a beautiful antique doll. Perfect for a young
girl-and oh so deadly....