内容简介：
Dr. Ken Fitzgerald, Ph.D., and his wife, Elaine, love their adopted home in New York City, yet as time passes, questions arise on whether or not the city is the best place to stay. Ken, feeling like a small fish in a large pond, has grown restless with his stagnant professorship at Colombia University. The children are becoming young adults, and Elaine yearns to move out to the suburbs where the family can spread their wings. Not until a Kentucky university offers Ken tenure and a lucrative salary do they consider living in the heart of Midwestern America. Upon the attack of their daughter and her continued nightmares that follow, they decide it best that the family make a change. Hopefully, they believe, this new home will be an answer to their dreams. Little do they know, however, that where their dreams live the nightmare waits. Initially, their new house is all they expected and more, but soon its true story begins to unfold. Their daughter continues to wake night after night from terrifying dreams about a man in black. Their oldest son hears strange noises and music emanating from the vent in his room. An intriguing stranger visits their youngest son on his computer, and Ken and Elaine begin to have fierce arguments over simple issues. Each ventures into separate paths of darkness only to find that their fears can all be connected to one manaa man who has apparently not been alive for nearly eighty years.