It’s The Roaring Twenties. Skirts Are Short, Crime Is Rampant, And Booze Is In Short Supply. Prohibition Has Hit Little Egypt Where Newspaper Man David Flynn Has Come To Do A Follow-up Story On The Herrin Massacre. But The Massacre Isn’t The Only News In Town. Spiritualist Medium Julian Devereux Claims To Speak To The Dead–and He Charges A Pretty Penny For It. Flynn Knows A Phony When He Sees One, And He’s Convinced Devereux Is As Fake As A Cigar Store Indian. And He’s Absolutely Right. But When Julian Begins To See Bloodstained Visions Of A Serial Killer, The Only Person He Can Turn To For Help Is The Cynical Mr. Flynn.