When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son--and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all ... right down to the friendly car.But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth--more terrifying than death itself--and hideously more powerful. Annotation. "Sometimes dead is better ..." When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all ... right down to the friendly cat.But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth -- more terrifying than death itself ... and hideously more powerful.