An amusement park mogul offers a random group of diverse people $1 million to spend the night in a decrepit former mental institution.

In the 1920s, Michael Arlen was one of the most popular and acclaimed writers in the world, but he mysteriously stopped writing altogether. His son tries to work out why this was.

Alex, an up-and-coming TV journalist, returns to her hometown of Danford as local police attempt to cope with a series of brutal murders. The small town plunges into a state of panic and the murders--clearly the work of a monster, more beast than man--continue... until Alex comes face to face with the evil itself.

Nurse and con artist Belle Haimes lives with her dull-witted husband Rex Haimes in the Hart Mansion in British Columbia. There, she cares for the invalid 103 year old Slim Hart, aka Pappy, and his comatose wife Minnie. Fed up with her job, Belle plots the death of old Mrs. Hart and the kidnapping of Old Pappy, but things don't go quite according to plan.