Laura is a book store clerk who is obsessed with reading horror novels. She recently discovers the work of a bizarre writer and becomes obsessed with one book in particular, "Mister Evil.". It describes the acts of a horribly deformed psychiatrist who kills people in order to make a young college student fall in love with him. But fiction turns into reality when the book clerk finds herself chased by a real life serial killer who replicates the murders in the book.