That which was utterly unknown to the most splendid civilizations of the past is in our time the chief power of civilization, daily engaged in making that history of a new era that is yet to be written in words. It has been demonstrated long since that men's lives are to be influenced not by theory, or belief, or argument and reason, so much as by that course of daily life which is not attempted to be governed by argument and reason, but by great physical facts like steam, electricity and machinery in their present applications.

The town of Newport Oregon was a picturesque community that thrived off of the ocean and had worked hard at ridding itself of one night from 1963. That was until the return of its most feared resident, James Windsor, brought it all back. As James tries to reestablish himself in a town that does not want him, the suspicious death of a local store owner brings him back into question as the killer the town tried to forget. As another accidental death occurs, James befriends a local woman that claims he is innocent and that the deaths have been caused by the Infliction, a creature born from an...