One evening Rachel Stokes is yanked from her bed and dragged into a black van by two young abductors. They refer to her as a chosen sacrifice and her mind races, wondering where they might be taking her. She thinks she knows. There's a house located in a hollow of rural Lynchville. It's called the Sad House, a place of legend. Rumors say it appears and disappears. Even worse than the house are the people who live in it. They could be vampires. They could just be ghosts with teeth. They've come after Rachel before and she narrowly escaped. And now they've come back to finish what they started...

Wayne Hixon returns to his hometown of Lynchville, Ohio, after a failed marriage to find only more catastrophe awaiting him. His parents are dead, his childhood home has been burned to the ground, the police seem to have it out for him and, on top of everything, he finds the Devils he wrote about in his book Vampires in Devil Town might actually be real.