No one ever stayed in that dark, brooding house by the river. A brilliant doctor takes up residence only to die violently. What is the terrible secret hidden behind the doors of the house by the river? When the dead man's brother decides to investigate he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually lead him into a vortex for terror. There in the flickering shadows of the house of fear the secret of his brother's death is finally revealed and he finds that perhaps death is only the beginning...