A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan’s terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan’s teenage stepson, doesn’t help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it.


故事主角是一位頭腦機靈的年輕女士，她靠著各種無傷大雅的技倆勉強糊口。四月某個下著雨的早晨，當她正在天靈靈手相館替人解讀氣場時，一位名叫蘇珊‧柏克的女士走了進來。身為一個擁有敏銳觀察力的人，這位不具名的敘事者，同時也是故事主角，很快便發現，蘇珊雖然漂亮、多金，卻不快樂，並且希望能為自己優渥無虞的生活增添一點樂趣。然而，在「通靈者」拜訪過那棟陰森恐怖的維多利亞式住宅，那個一直以來令蘇珊感到恐懼和痛苦的地方，她發現再也不必自己裝神弄鬼了。蘇珊的繼子麥兒斯也變得古怪無禮且容易疑神疑鬼。不久後，為了找出魔鬼真正的藏身之處，並找出任何能夠順利脫身的辦法，三人捲進了一場令人不寒而慄的爭鬥…。