Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, unveils a chilling tale of a young woman's descent into supernatural madness. Lori Holmes has everything: loving parents, wealth, a wonderful fiance. Then her parents die in a horrible fire, the family business is bankrupt, and Lori dreams of lying dead and rotting in the grave. Then she discovers that the woman she called Mother did not give birth to her, and her true mother is reaching to her from beyond the grave!