Children die in Maria Bay in disproportionate numbers. They always have. If anyone suspected Harold O/Bannon and the Black Cat Toy Factory, aka the Witch-Works, they kept it to themselves. In 1954 the factory was destroyed in a fire. The ruins loom over the farm where Daniel Thompson grew up, unaware of the impact that living under its shadow would continue to have on him and the small, coastal town of Maria Bay. When Daniel learns of his father’s death and returns to the home he had fled years before, he finds that he is intimately involved in O’Bannon’s dark designs which have spanned generations of mystery. murder, and horror. Some knowledge is best left unknown.