In the end death comes for us all. When the end came for Ruth Whitaker, her dying thoughts were of her four children-an avaricious brood intent on receiving their fair shares of the family fortune. But even in death the spiteful old widow has nefarious intentions of her own in the form of dreadful curses placed upon the items bequeathed to her unwitting children. By the time the scope of her disdain for them is fully understood, their lives are irrevocably and horrifyingly transformed.