They found him butchered in his bed on Halloween eve. Sheets soaked with blood. Strange insect bites covering his skin. The urban legend serial killer story that "refuses to release you until the final, bloody page." A murderer is loose in Jasmine Heights. A killer of legend, whose shadow cloaks the city. When Annelise's most promising student, Jadyn, stops coming to school she determines to find out why against the faculty's better judgment. Her students claim Jadyn's neighborhood is haunted by a serial killer known as The Halloween Man, a story she attributes to fabrication and urban legend. When Annelise ventures into the city in search of Jadyn, she discovers the urban legend is real...and more terrifying than she imagined. Now she is trapped on the wrong side of town, and The Halloween Man is closing in on her.