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Summer. A dark, foreboding shadow descends on the peaceful farming community of Gilead, New Jersey. Strange, impossible events occur with increasing frequencey.
Rites not performed for centuries. Rituals designed to release horrors from the earth itself. Celebrations of evil orchestrated by one mysterious old man with the knowledge and power to unleash a nightmare. A cycle of terror whose shattering final turn will demand the taking of two lives - Jeremy Freirs, a vacationing New York City graduate student, and Carol Conklin, the trusting girl he loves.
Rites not performed for centuries. Rituals designed to release horrors from the earth itself. Celebrations of evil orchestrated by one mysterious old man with the knowledge and power to unleash a nightmare. A cycle of terror whose shattering final turn will demand the taking of two lives - Jeremy Freirs, a vacationing New York City graduate student, and Carol Conklin, the trusting girl he loves.
