Dr. Norman Plaque finally got the dental chair of his dreams.
He should have asked more questions about the floor underneath it.
Now his root canal patients are coming back changed - serene, sleepless, and unsettlingly interested in raw meat. There's a hum in the walls that isn't coming from any machine. And somewhere beneath the office, in the bedrock itself, something old is waking up, one filling at a time.
With his hygienist, a skeptical sheriff, and a reporter who finally has a real story, Norman has one weekend before four hundred dentists checking in for a regional convention get a demonstration none of them signed up for.
It doesn't want your teeth.
It wants the door your teeth make.
THE DENTIST
Open wide. Something's listening.