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Blackwood mansion looms surrounded by nightmare pines atop the hill over the small town of New Haven Ben Bookman bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel The Scarecrow Now on the eve of the books release the terrible story within begins to unfold in real life Detective Mills arrives at the scene of a gruesome murder a family butchered and bundled inside cocoons stitched from corn husks and hung from the rafters of a barn eerily mirroring the opening of Bookmans latest novel When another family is killed in a similar manner Mills and his daughter rookie detective Samantha Blue are determined to find the link to the bookand the killerbefore the story reaches its chilling climax As the series of Scarecrow crimes continues to mirror the book Ben quickly becomes the prime suspect He cant remember much from the night he finished writing the novel but he knows he wrote it in The Atrium his grandfathers forbidden room full of numbered books thousands of books without words As Ben digs deep into Blackwoods history he learns he may have triggered a release of something trapped long agoand it wont stop with the horrors buried within the pages of his book