Sometimes going home again is a lot like going to hell. Searching for her lost brother, Amy Jackson returns to her isolated hometown in the Appalachian Mountains. But Blackwood has changed. Now it's run by a mysterious drug lord who has something more lethal than guns to protect him. He has demons-more vicious, venomous demons than even Hieronymus Bosch ever dreamed of-and after Amy witnesses an unspeakable atrocity he unleashes all the frenzied furies of hell against her. Soon she is stalked by snakewalkers, herky-jerkies, toadfaces, listeners, harpies, centicreepers, and the sinister crying man, who weeps while he torments his victims.