Pete Croft never stopped having nightmares about the ancient ruined church, where he witnessed a fatal motorcycle crash and a sinister phantom at the age of seven. Twenty-five years later, he resolves to get to the bottom of his fears, and confront the mysterious presence that has terrified him ever since. Set around the village of Ingshall, five years before the events in The Lady in the Chapel, this short story introduces the characters of Kern, Kerri, and Mary the Medium.