Mania

Six months after being forced to sit and watch a man murder his own mother, Carol Schaeffer pays regular visits to a therapist's office. Any progress she may have made there is erased when a creature claws its way into her mind and gives her both a gift and a choice; either she admits loved ones to their own personal hell, or else be admitted to her own. Some call the creature Fiend, while others call it Mania. When another person is given a similar gift, the line between the two choices becomes blurred. The attempts of Officers Harris and Morell to pinpoint the cause of the spreading mental torment brings all those involved to a single room at Mountain View Hospital. The Officers are glad to be aided in their cause by Cathy, the Librarian, who seems to know more about the eerily vacant hospital than she lets on. With each step closer to being rid of the Fiends, traumatic memories become nearer to reality. The ones suffering begin to wish for death, but it only seems to be granted to those who never asked for it. A cruel lesson taught by the creature attached to Carol; a hideous miscreation which wants to spread what its name suggests, Mania.