For eighteen-year-old Johnny Petrie, the run-down farmhouse in Maine means a way out. When the letter arrived saying he had inherited an estate from a man he'd never heard of, Johnny knew he could finally escape from his religious zealot mother and drunken father. He didn't know the hell he was moving to was far, far worse...The previous owner of the estate was Benjamin Conroy, a man obsessed with securing eternal life for himself and his family - even if he had to kill them to do it. Conroy's ultimate ritual, a perverse horror of blood and butchery, went hideously wrong, denying him the immortality he sought and ending with him and his family dead. But now Johnny has moved in, Conroy's spirit will have a second chance...