In 1898, the gold rush brings all manner of men and women to the icy wilderness of Alaska. Hungry for riches and glory, hungry for gold. And emerging from the shadows of legend comes an older, more primal hunger. Through the treacherous journey towards the Klondike, it hunts the brave adventurers. Scenting their memories, tasting their fears. Ravenously seeking something even more valuable than gold. Life.

Horror is what Dan Law enjoys. He loves to read horror novels as a way to escape from his teaching job, from his loneliness, from the everyday dullness of life in Silver Lake. That’s what Dan lives for. When a new bookstore opens in town, every visitor receives a free book of their own. A book that tells their own personal story...a story they have to follow to the brutal end. As Silver Lake’s population descends into violent savagery, Dan finds he is no longer living for horror novels - he’s living inside one.

Crease is known in Weaver as ‘the bug guy', the man who takes care of insects and other critters. But what emerges from the shadows of the town's waste plant is beyond anything found in nature. Fist-sized cockroaches. Bird-sized wasps. Spiders, millipedes, ticks, all swollen to enormous bulk with vicious appetites to match. And other things, creatures that should never exist.

For decades, a dark force has terrorized the Languille Lake reservation. Only spoken of in whispers as "the sandman," he lurks in the Hidden Atlantis Lake Resort and Casino, the reservation's main attraction and source of revenue, leeching its patrons' dreams and ambitions and also preventing the ghosts that linger there from moving on. Fleeing a breakup, Marion Lafournier, a mid-twenties Ojibwe, seeks solace in the slot machine's siren song.

Donny stormed out of his boss’s office on the worst day of his professional career. While marching home in a fit of rage and hopelessness, he ran into his attractive neighbour and ended the night by earning a date with her. But it was a date he would never make. Little did Donny know, but when he marched into his boss’s office, he’d interrupted a private meeting with a demon from another world eager to collect a body. And that demon set his eyes on Donny as his next victim. Unable to avoid the beast, Donny is captured and dragged to its dying, hellish world.