There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong, if time-rusted, iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. Then one day when Gwendy gets to the top of Castle View, after catching her breath and hearing the shouts of kids on the playground below, a stranger calls to her....

Wesley Smith, and English professor at a Kentucky college, purchases an e-book reader but receives a unique edition with a "UR" function which allows him to search multiple universes to collect data, but Smith is most surprised when he uncovers literature and disturbing news articles that have been published in an alternate dimension.

Three horrific tales of withdrawl, desperation, and unfiltered suspense.