McIntyre tries everything he can think of to escape his family legacy. Regardless of his efforts, the end remains the same: death.
McIntyre learned to deal with death long ago, but when the same legacy threatens his son, McIntyre knows he must find a new way to fight or he'll lose everything.
"[Rusch's horror stories are] horror in the same way that Robert Bloch's Psycho ishorror of the soul."