Nick Hansley and his young wife and father-in-law soon find that The Cedars, the isolated country house Ena has inherited, has more than just a sinister appearance - it radiates a positively evil aura. Soon after moving in, they are visited by a strange figure of a man - Dr. Lexton, their nearest neighbour, who tries to persuade them to sell the house to him. But who is Dr. Lexton, and what was the nature of the secret experiment that Ena." s deceased uncle, entomologist Cyrus Odder, had carried out at the house? It is not long before there is a mysterious death in the house, and then death spreads its net across the countryside - and the entire world...
