The small, remote forest town of Kent is shocked by  a series of disappearances, children going missing in the night. The police search the expansive forest land in search of the missing children and stumble upon the corpse of a boy, murdered and defiled ritualistically.

There is evidence the murder was commited by something far stranger than a human being, evidence that links back to the fairy story Dick's grandfather used to tell him............is there something living in the woods?