Reporter Eldon Larkin works for a small-time newspaper in Port Jerome, Oregon, where weird and sinister things are going on, things that draw Eldon and the newspaper's lady photographer into a web of mayhem and murder...
On a fishing trip in Alaska, Eldon Larkin stumbles upon the body of an unpleasant local Indian artist crushed under one of his own totems, and to impress an attractive local newspaper editor, Eldon goes after the story...