Everyone has a private nightmare - a secret fear locked away in the dark recesses of the mind. And Gideon knows what it is. For Gideon has the horrifying power to tune into his enemies subconscious terrors. To haunt them with visions of spiders, rats, dogs, birds. Whatever will drive them to the point of insanity. Even to destroy themselves.
Twelve year old Gideon has the ability to frighten people of their biggest fears and open the subliminal floodgates. He will burn his parents alive, make a police officer crack his skull like an eggshell trying to escape from imaginary spiders, make a mental patient smash a window with his hand and drag his throat across the jagged glass, and attempt to make his sister jump into a waterbed of crocodiles. He is really one powerful evil child will a gift of annihilation.