John Shade, a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A., writes a 999-line poem in the last twenty days of his life which is then acquired and annotated by his crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.
Will Navidson and Karen Green make a chilling discovery after their two small children wander off in their new home: the house is larger on the inside than the outside, and what it contains threatens to destroy them all.