Brilliant teenage pianist Erica Zann is compelled to perform the ancient demon Claw's haunted symphony. Its first movement spreads through Erica's hometown of River Forest, IL, and brainwashes anyone who hears it. Erica, her friends, and her family must fight and hide from Claw's growing army while Erica battles her compulsion to play the symphony's finale, which would open a portal unleashing Hell on Earth. A modern, female-driven reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft's 1921 short story, "The Music of Erich Zann."

About 55,000 words.