Johannes Cabal & his rather inexact powers of necromancy are back once more. This time his talents are purchased by The Fear Institute as they hunt for the Phobic Animus
- the embodiment of fear. The three Institute members led by Cabal & his Silver Key enter the Dreamlands & find themselves pursued by walking trees plagued with giant ticks stone men that patrol the ruins of their castles cats that feed on human flesh & phobias which torment & devastate. The intrepid explorers are killed off one by one as they traipse through this obfuscating & frustrating world where history itself appears to alter. Cabal annoyed that the quest is becoming increasingly heroic finds himself alone with the Institutes only remaining survivor & after a shockingly violent experiment begins to suspect that not everything is quite as it seems...