Valley Bottom is a pleasant village located in the Trinity Alps of Northern California. For decades the villagers have thrived, unmolested by outside cultural and societal influences, but they are slowly dying off and with no hopes of lasting into the next century they are becoming desperate. And then they meet the Kenningtons, a family sidetracked from their vacation destination. For the residents of Valley Bottom, the Kenningtons are their salvation. For the Kenningtons, however, Valley Bottom is about to become the sort of living Hell that Mr. Kennington writes about in his horror stories. As the family is soon to learn, it isn't vampires, ghosts or Bigfoot that they must be worried about, but something far more human and far worse than anything anyone could possibly imagine.