Boss Collins and his new construction crew - ten men he knows next to nothing about, hired out by a local temp agency - are stranded in the October desert outside of Las Vegas. Their ride home won't start, so they're stuck until morning; no cell phone service out here. So now to pass the time each man must tell a story. That's the price of a seat by the fire and who can say no? The evening is chilly.
Through the long night these bedeviled men from all walks of life and from all over America will reveal their personal encounters with the strange, the supernatural, and the unholy evil in ten new, all-original tales of horror. In no particular order, these include: "The Wishing Box," an ancient, mysterious thing that a troubled college kid uses to work miracles on both the living, and the dead. Another story and a different wish center on the heart-broken victim of tragedy whose antique car becomes his magic ticket to a second chance at happiness in, "Forever and a Day."
On a different note, if ever you find yourself wandering alone in the Chino Hills at sunset, beware of the "Dust Devil." He rides on the wind and kills with hellfire, when he can't scare you to death. Then there's the greedy travel nurse who goes to Vermont to rob from the dead, and there learns that some things are definitely "To Die For." But it's not all gloom and doom for a young Archaeology grad, who takes the field trip of a lifetime in the rolling hills of Montana when he crashes through the time/space continuum of "Hawa'te!"
You're halfway through now and dying for more, but that won't be necessary. Indeed, there is much more. Stuck in the sticks of the Eastern Shore, an out-of-towner discovers that sometimes just "Getting Out of Dodge" can be a real killer. Also back East, a Pittsburgh man inherits a seemingly idyllic country cabin, only to find himself threatened by a very old-school frontier horror in, "The Inheritance." His is decidedly a matter of life and death, unlike the problems of a young college couple, who nonetheless find it tough to study when they're hounded by the diabolical "White Dog."
Turn the page, and sleep is the last thing on the mind of the gambler who takes a late-night shortcut through the Cascades of Oregon, where he finds love in the strangest of places thanks to a colossal mountain creature, aka the "Woodwose." There's one more story, but... sorry, you'll have to read the book. So take a seat by the fire, my friend. Grab a drink, pull up a stump, and burn as many marshmallows as you like. The boys are settled. The Bunny Man is ready.
