The sins of the past break through to the present in this chilling
tale of supernatural suspense. - When Benedict Doyle finds himself
the owner of his great-grandfather's North London house, it stirs
memories of his time there as a frightened eight-year-old and the
strange glimpses that revealed the darkness in his family's past,
through which runs the grisly thread of an old legend about a chess set
believed to possess a dark power. And when Michael Flint, meeting
Benedict in Oxford, starts to research his story, chilling facts begin
to emerge - facts that suggest the old legend contains a disturbing
reality. Could the chess set's malevolence be reaching out to the
present?