Supernatural-tinged thriller that reminds me of Stephen King or Joe Hill, where the tension just keeps ratcheting up. World weary WWI veteran Arlen Wagner is on a train bound for some Civilian Conservation Corps work in the Florida Keys during the Great Depression, when he starts to see the supernatural signs of impending doom- smoky eyes and skeletal features- overlaid on the faces of the CCC men in the train with him. It's a talent, or curse, that he developed during the war. Only young Paul Brickhill agrees to disembark the train with him in mainland Florida, and they hitch a ride with a fellow who brings them to Cypress House on the Gulf, a strangely empty boarding house run by beautiful, grim young Rebecca Cady. Soon enough they find that while they have escaped whatever would befall the men on the train, they've found themselves in a corrupt town filled with dangerous men, and an impending hurricane to boot.