Lorraine Heath had been reluctant to return to her family's estate on the rugged California coast. The uneasy memory of childhood nightmares experienced there still haunted her. But now a family reunion calls Lorraine back to Gulls' Nest ... and into a confrontation with the evil that corrupts the house. From the moment she arrives, Lorraine is fearful of some unseen presence lurking in the rooms she played in as a little girl. Her premonition of danger soon comes true when death calls again at Gulls' Nest. Then one night Lorraine is awakened by a nightmare out of her childhood ... and a voice from the past whispers to her that the evil in the house lies within her own subconscious.