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Tis the season in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont. And in the house of little Corey Gatlin a creature is stirring a creature by the name of Chanks. Haunted by the shadow of Chanks throughout his life, Corey lives in mortal fear of the holidays. Under the stress and rage of a crumbling and hollow marriage, Corey's sanity cracks unleashing the beast that has been coiled inside him all those long years. Somewhere, in the black pit of Corey's mind, a chilling metamorphosis takes place and a hideous holiday of unholy evil falls upon an unsuspecting and unprepared world.

Germany 1943 - A young boy survives the horrors of the concentration camps to become a doctor and confront a greater horror that not only destroys his family but also his own sanity. In present day New York, a graphic artist discovers a strange symbol branded on his young daughter's body. A symbol he sees mirrored in his own work. Each is a marked man, a warrior chosen to grapple with a monstrous evil. Each will be drawn together by a spiral of terror, a nightmare that began with an unspeakable act of betrayal, an unforgivable sin.