In the faded mill town of Ashford Hollow, strange mist rolls in every October, staying for exactly thirteen nights. Locals whisper about "The Veil"—a fog that brings back the dead... but not the way you remember them.

When Evan Mercer, a washed-up journalist returning to his hometown to care for his dying mother, sees his childhood friend—dead since 1993—walking the fog-drenched streets, he thinks it's a grief hallucination. Until others start seeing their own long-lost loved ones.

But the returned aren't quite right: they know things they shouldn't, they ask strange questions, and they're all searching for something buried deep beneath the town.

As the nights pass, Evan uncovers an unholy pact made during the town's founding—a debt that comes due every 30 years. Now the clock is ticking, and if the Veil isn't closed, Ashford Hollow will become a ghost town in the most literal sense