故事根据乔治·马丁的短片小说改编，讲述一位想要获得变换身形能力 的皇后做出大胆尝试，雇佣了一个拥有强大力量，并且令人恐惧的女人格雷·阿里斯。阿里斯和她的向导流浪汉博伊斯被送到了失落之地，在这里他们需要用智慧战胜人类和恶魔，并且他们需要探究善与恶、罪过与成就、爱与失去的本质。
A newly engaged couple's ski weekend goes horribly awry, when an unexpected guest arrives and the house's dark supernatural forces begin to rise.
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
A mother moves into an old family home to undergo a rigorous treatment that she hopes will help her autistic daughter communicate. The therapy seems successful when the girl miraculously begins to speak. However, she soon discovers that her daughter has come into contact with the tortured entities of the place, who return from beyond to collect a dark debt from the past
