In this collection of seven chilling tales, the ordinary becomes a doorway for the monstrous.

Some paintings should never be bought. Some roads should never be taken because some of them never let you leave. A mother learns that some things are worse than losing a loved one. A guest checks into a hotel he can never seem to leave. A family flees to a quarantined lake house, only to find that the outbreak was never the thing they should have feared. Three men run from a crime they can't outrun, down a highway that was never going to let them go home.

From haunted objects to backwoods nightmares, these seven stories explore what happens when something wrong slips through the cracks of everyday life and what it costs to survive it.