The peacefulness of a small, post-World War II town in New York is shattered when Larry McConnell drowns mysteriously in a local lake. When a kind boarder joins Larry's widow, Margaret, and her young son Davey, she begins to think her house may be haunted. The sheriff believes a rogue deputy is responsible for Larry's death while Margaret reluctantly seeks the help of a palm reader. The psychic identifies a dresser in Davey's room as the source of the haunting and the root of the evil that is now swirling around them and threatening Margaret's son. Deeper research reveals that Larry had unknowingly brought back an ancient horror after serving in the Philippines during the war, and its terror has been unleashed into the small towns and rolling farmland of Upstate New York. From the jungles of the Philippines to high above a raging waterfall, The Onyx Seed is a fast-paced and gripping supernatural thriller, with the fate of a young boy uncertain until the end.