Working on his latest book, novelist Colin May becomes incapable of separating fact from fiction and within weeks of moving into his new home in the Hollywood Hills, he begins to hear voices, see images, often waking up to a distant deep calling from somewhere on the property. Colin’s novel, a masterpiece, grows in its intensity as his imagination and terror wreck havoc with his grasp on reality. All those around him, his nephew, his agent, his husband try desperately to help Colin return to reality, but the calling, the voices from the house's bomb shelter are growing louder, louder, louder. As Colin battles the demons in his head, he finishes the final chapter of the book with a climactic and terrifying meeting of an old acquaintance in the bomb shelter.

Over the course of one night, a whirlwind romance between a drug dealer and an underground singer takes them both on a collision course with a dangerous new mind-control drug. As the couple's wild night takes them through the Los Angeles underground, they discover that each of them is hiding a secret from the other and that one of them will die before the sun rises.

A young woman becomes filled with a horrible dread when she discovers that her brother may actually be something other than he appears.