Clyde Whitney, the reserved heir to his family's wealthy plantation, knew nothing of the horrors concealed within the sinister swamp that neighbored his estate. Breaking free of his self-confinement to his home following his father's unexpected disappearance, Clyde decides to accompany his butler, the well-meaning but often overbearing Saul, to an auction in a nearby town. Along the way, he meets several others with pasts as troubled as his, before...