Publisher's Synopsis
Every year on his birthday, Ned Dunston is cursed with visions of horrors committed by a savage figure he calls Mr X. A dreadful premonition brings him home to find his mother on her deathbed. She reveals the never-before-disclosed name of his father and warns him of grave danger. Driven by a desperate sense of need, Ned explores his dark past and the astonishing legacy of his kin...