 Mike Dawson returns to his home town of Crowley, Texas to recuperate from a nervous breakdown he suffered as a result of his first experience in the Dark World. However, his living nightmare continues when the headless body of Mike s date to the high school reunion is discovered after the couple is seen fighting. Suspected of her murder, Mike is desperate to find her true killer. However, while digging up the dirty little secrets of his neighbors, Mike unwittingly crosses again into the Dark World. In that ghastly parallel-dimension he discovers that his old nemesises, the Ancients, have orchestrated the murder as part of a fiendishly complex plot that not only exacts revenge on Mike, but also will unleash an unspeakably evil horror into our world.