A failing magazine writer and a nightclub hostess take a break from the world on a derelict plantation in rural Tennessee. As the ghosts of the past thicken the atmosphere, each must face the horrible price of peace.
Literary characters were supposed to be immortal. When Dracula and Dorothy Gale are murdered and erased from their books, the rules of fiction change, and a gumshoe must risk everything to prevent the annihilation of the realm of fiction.