Rathbone’s Demon

April 14th, 1865. President Lincoln sits in the Presidential box at Ford’s Theatre with his wife Mary at his side. But they are not the only guests in the box that night. Major Henry Rathbone and his fiancée Clara Harris are also in attendance and as traumatic as the assassination of the President will be, what happens to Henry and Clara after the murder is even more disturbing.

Henry has always been troubled. From the time he was a young boy, he has suffered from nightmares that have an eerie tendency to come true. The death of his mother and brother were foretold in a dream, as was the death of the President. Plagued by voices and visions, Henry struggles to move past the terrible tragedy of Lincoln’s death. He harbors tremendous guilt. After all, he saw the hooded figure that very night, he heard its preternatural voice, and he knew what was coming.

Unable to deal with everyday life, Henry becomes reclusive and unpredictable until the intervention of a mysterious woman who banishes his tormentor, giving him a reprieve. Life seems to fall into a happy rhythm until Henry realizes that strange things are beginning to happen again. The voice returns, and Henry has to find a way to silence it before it pushes him to madness.