"You think you chose Trinity?"
"Never let your conscience be your guide"
"You mess with Lucas Buck, and you're a dead man"
Welcome to Trinity, South Carolina, and its mysterious inhabitants. This list includes our Chromatically amoral sheriff, Lucas Buck; The Temples; Gage, the father of Caleb (who one day snaps and attacks Merlyln, his son Caleb and his autistic sister Merlyn who utters the most famous words Trinity has ever heard, "Someone's at the door"; Lucas finishes her off by breaking her neck, or at least that is what people say. Then there's our doctor Dr. Matt Crower, a Yankee doctor with an alcoholic past. and Gail Emory, Caleb's cousin who returns to town she left after her parents died in a suspicious fire. Lucas's girlfriend is Selena Coombs--schoolteacher by day, lover and spy to Lucas at night. Just what is the special relationship between our sheriff Buck and Gail. Welcome to Trinity!
Trinity is a picture perfect town in southern America. The houses are brightly painted. the lawns manicured and the people happy--at least on the surface. But Trinity, population 9666, is a particularly unsafe place to visit. In fact, it has the highest death rate in rural America, and an ususal number of people have gone missing in this seemingly peaceful southern enclave. We are about to find out why. Is this the ultimate story of good vrs evil as the town's Sheriff Lucas Buck plays a horrifying game of control with the good people of Trinity, South Carolina.
Lucas Buck is a malevolent force who seduces the locals with favors and then has them all in his debt. He knows their secrets. He blackmails, he bribes and murders with an inexhaustible hunger for control. His supernatural evil is as pure as Satan's. His power is surpreme and unchallenge-until now.
Only one force challenges Lucas Buck. That force comes in the form of a 10-year old boy, Caleb Temple. Caleb is an orphan, his mother, his father, and sister all victums of the demonic Buck. Somehow this innocent child has the ablilty to communicate with the dead and learn the truth.
American Gothic gives new meaning to the phrase, "Someone's at the Door...."
