Young Ryan Woods thought his troubles were over when his father died, but they were just starting. Now he has found out that his father is the great childhood legend The Boogeyman, and that he has come back to feed off the fears of his friends and neighbors. Ryan must now team up with his doubting mother and a lonely priest to do battle with his father who can switch bodies, control creatures of the night, and invade their dreams, while coming to terms with gifts and abilities of his own. Like father, like son, like hell. Ryan's father will not stop coming until he can possess the one victim that will give him the ultimate power . . . Ryan himself.