Twenty-six years after The Damned Place, Jim Dalton is now chief of police in the formerly sleepy town of Winnsboro, where a series of brutal murders leads him to believe something insidious is lurking just beneath the surface. As he meets with his childhood friends, the scope of what they hoped was left behind in the woods all those years ago begins to come into focus, and they realize they are once more all that stands in the way of a hungry beast from outside of reality and global destruction. Ours isn't the first world The Glutton has devoured, and if Jim and his friends can't find the key to destroying it, it won't be the last. THE DAMNED PLACE left its stain, and now mankind's only hope rests within THE DAMNED ONES.