When the dead rise up, the terror descends...

It is 1965, and the chilly gloom of a Massachusetts autumn, the Justin Martyr boys' academy begins its new term. But student Adrian Sparks isn't interested in his classes. Not since he found the old Ouija board--and not since the psychic fair. For a tarot card reader told him he possessed the powers of a medium, powers that could contact the dead. Now Adrian watches breathlessly as his Ouija board's planchette spells out a haunting message from a long-lost spirit...

His name is Andre St. Loup, a Confederate colonel in the Civil War, doomed to eternal damnation--unless the boy can help unearth the past and set it right. Suddenly Adrian is hurled into a world haunted by murder, madness and brutal revenge...hungry to claim its next tormented soul...