It's 1997. Sullivan Carter is now an apprentice at Carter & Sons Funeral Home, and his life has settled down considerably. Until his younger brother, Colton, opens a door to the afterlife in their new home, that is.
A ghostly child now cries inconsolably from somewhere within the walls of the house. A tall, spindly shadow man who belongs in a forgotten children's rhyme creeps through rooms after dark. And a spate of gruesome deaths in the village coincides with reported sightings of a beast that prowls the streets at night.
Can Sullivan save the entire village by solving a decades' old mystery and closing the otherworldly door left open by Colton? Or will the darkness from last year, the darkness he'd rather forget, destroy him?