Yurt is a walking, talking self-proclaimed priceless antique who finds himself stolen from his very store by a rascal of a boy, Jacob Wilkins, and taken into a broken home.

Eugene Lazlo is a hapless layabout with little more on his mind than getting his own car who wanders absently right into nightmare.

Samantha Hale is a high school dropout and a single mother plagued by visions of death and despair. Dr. Edwin Rutherford serves as her therapist, attempting to make sense of her morbid fantasies.

Tremors in Telafette is a "reality" show, investigating the strange happenings around the decaying city. The trio behind the show stumble into an inexpiable mystery, far more real than their usual haunts, as past meets present in a horrifying brew of superstition and suffering.

A boy and his bear. A listless fast food employee. A timid single mother. A resentful scholar. Five missing children. And a TV show on the verge of collapse. All these fates mix and intertwine in the stagnant morass of small town Telafette.