That dream or variations upon it occurred to me intermittently for fifteen years. Most often it came in exactly this form: the arrival, the tea laid out on the lawn, the deadly silence succeeded by that one deadly sentence, the mounting with jack stone up to the room in the tower where horror dwelt... A young man is plagued by a recurring nightmare - though the characters within it gradually age and disappear over the years, the vision invariably culminates in a moment of unspeakable terror. And when he visits the home of his friend John, he is confronted with the house from his dream...