Evil lurks in the small Texas town of Kitaree. Myrna Powell should know: It killed her.
Three years later, widower David Sextant and his brother Sam move to the small East Texas town after the sudden death of David's wife. While Sam copes with an inability to stay awake, David suffers insomnia after the tragedy, and he explores the forest outside of his new home during a sleepless night.
David discovers far more than a way to ease his mind. Instead, he finds himself entering a waking dream that he cannot escape, and meets within it a secret society studying Kitaree's thin realityan organization that wants to use Sam's help as a "dreamer" to seal what they call the Grand Gateway.
But David and the secret organization aren't alone in targeting the Gateway. A murderous man who holds a knife powered with the ability to put people into a deep sleep has learned it can also slice open the Gatewaygranting him the powers of a god. As he begins killing his way through Kitaree, darkening the sky and reviving the newly dead to fulfill an old, horrible promise. That's not enough to stop the ghost of horror fanatic Myrna, though.
Teaming up with the insomniac, his narcoleptic brother, an unlikely cast of experts, and a god, Myrna is ready to battle gaggles of not-really zombies and nightmarish obstacles to stop the dream of a madman and all Hell from breaking loose in Texas.