In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy. No one believes him when he says a telephone booth sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. A chilling fresh spin on the classic horror novel.