Insurance investigator John Trent is hired by a publishing company to locate the missing bestselling horror novelist, Sutter Cane. Cane's disappearance has provoked intense public interest as his books, purported to be more than just fiction, have been inducing disorientation and memory loss among his readers. Trent, initially skeptical of the mass hysteria, is accompanied by Cane's editor, Linda Styles, as they set out to investigate the author's mysterious whereabouts. Following a trail of clues derived from Cane's novels, they find themselves drawn to the supposedly fictional town of Hobb's End.

Upon arriving in Hobb's End, Trent and Styles encounter a series of bizarre and disturbing events that seem to mirror the strange and terrifying world Cane has created in his writings. The boundary between fiction and reality begins to blur as the ominous influence of Cane's work becomes increasingly tangible. Trent's skepticism is challenged as he struggles to unravel the truth behind Cane's visions and the unsettling changes they seem to be inciting in the real world. Meanwhile, the fabric of reality starts to distort, revealing that Cane's novels could be more than just mere horror stories.