From the blood of the past, evil rises to seek undying vengeance...
Prairie Bend.
Brilliant summers amid golden fields. Killing winters of razorlike cold.
A peaceful, neighborly village, darkened by legends of death? Who is
Nathaniel? For a hundred years, the people of Prairie Bend have
whispered the name in wonder and fear. Some say he is simply a folk
tale - a legend created to frighten children on cold winter nights. Some
swear he is a terrifying spirit returned to avenge the past. And
soon...very soon...some will come to believe that Nathaniel lives
still - darkly, horrifyingly real. Nathaniel.
For young Michael Hall, newly arrived in isolated Prairie Bend after
having lost his father to a sudden tragic accident, Nathaniel is the
voice that calls him across the prairie night...the voice that draws him
into the shadowy depths of the old, crumbling barn where he has been
forbidden to go...the voice - chanting, compelling - he will follow
faithfully beyond the edge of terror...Nathaniel.