When two families join forces for a camping holiday in the California mountains, they are looking forward to a restful interlude amidst the tranquil scenery. For Scott O’Toole it’s a chance to spend some time with his teenaged kids and his new girlfriend, while Arnold Gordon is hoping that the change of atmosphere will help to calm the nerve-shattering memories of Vietnam that still plague him. None of them could have imagined the horrifying ordeal that awaited them.
Pitching camp in a secluded valley they unwittingly intrude on the home of two of the wilderness’s most bizarre inhabitants – an aged hag whose loyalty to the Evil One gives her awesome powers, and her son, a depraved half-beast whose unnatural lusts even she can barely control.
For the sleeping campers, soon to become the prey of an evil that is only partly human, a terrifying nightmare is about to begin…
Tread Softly is by Richard Laymon’s pseudonym Richard Kelly.