When twelve‑year‑old Zach is forced to take a detour past the sinister Lore House, a chain of unsettling events leads him to a mysterious book whose stories blur into his own life. As he reads a tale about another boy named Zachary, who befriends a forest monster that soon turns deadly, he becomes increasingly aware that fear, danger, and the supernatural may be closer than he thinks.

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A strange unease settles over his home, and the sounds drifting from the attic suggest that something unseen is beginning to press through the cracks of his ordinary life.