New York Times bestselling comics creator Cullen Bunn ( Harrow County , The Empty Man ) delivers a chilling small-town horror novel in the tradition of Stephen King--where a brutal double homicide in an isolated mid-Atlantic community awakens an ancient force and unleashes a living nightmare. For so many, this is the last week on earth. A young woman plagued by surreal and harrowing nightmares whose immediate and distant futures are at a crossroads.a mysterious derelict who possesses knowledge beyond that of human understanding.a hard-edged sheriff who just may be in over his head this time.a local drug-dealing outcast whose role-playing fantasy aspirations are about to become all too real.These are only a few of the residents of Wilson Island, North Carolina, all of whose lives are about to converge and explode as a brutal masked killer and their heinous, seemingly ritualistic acts are shockingly exposed. For these atrocities are merely a grim portent of a terrifying, all-consuming evil about to descend upon this sleepy mid-Atlantic burg--a horrific force as ancient and cold as the stars themselves.