''Smith promises unimaginable brutality, bile-inducing fear, and unfathomable despair; and then delivers monumentally.'' ''-Horror Web'' ''A feast of good old-fashioned horror.'' -Brian Keene, author of ''Ghoul'' They are The Dark Ones. The name began as a self-deprecating joke, but it stuck and now it's a source of pride. They're the one who don't fit in. The misfits who drink and smoke too much and stay out all hours of the night. Everyone knows they're trouble. On the outskirts of Ransom, TN is an abandoned, boarded-up house. Something evil happened there long ago. The evil has been contained there ever since, locked down tight in the basement-until the night The Dark Ones set it free...