An old man sits in his room, not moving, not speaking, just sitting... just watching. A son has moved his family away from their friends to a new town filled with hostile faces. A fifteen year old boy is surrounded by strangers in a new school... and a cruel, bleak nothingness is beginning to take hold of him. Soon the town will know the pain off loss, of unhappiness, of unrelenting misery. And as an epidemic starts to grow, a spate of teenage suicides, another being begins to emerge. It lives in the wall, in the corner of the room and has hair as black as tar, eyes red like fire and teeth as vicious as grief. The nightmare has begun, the depression has taken its grip...The Black Dog has arisen.