It's 1997. Sullivan Carter is now an apprentice at Carter & Sons Funeral Home, and his life has settled down considerably. Until his younger brother, Colton, opens a door to the afterlife in their new home, that is.

A ghostly child now cries inconsolably from somewhere within the walls of the house. A tall, spindly shadow man who belongs in a forgotten children's rhyme creeps through rooms after dark. And a spate of gruesome deaths in the village coincides with reported sightings of a beast that prowls the streets at night.

Can Sullivan save the entire village by solving a decades' old mystery and closing the otherworldly door left open by Colton? Or will the darkness from last year, the darkness he'd rather forget, destroy him?

Because some things from the cundy will not rest.