Enter the depraved world of the Fleshers, and their partners in darkness from the old world, the Savidges, with fresh opportunities in a perilous time in history, the start of the Great Depression. Used to opportunity in adversity the family will certainly thrive in this tumultuous era with calculated terror, extreme experimentation, and a twisted madness that fills the dark woods, surrounds the haunted walls, and cries out in terror inside the ominous caverns of Rutherford Manor.