Gabriel Knight is a horror novelist and bookstore owner who has been haunted by nightmares. Hoping to write a bestselling book on Voodoo, Gabriel ventures out into New Orleans to do the research he needs. But over the next few days, he gets himself too close to darkness itself and begins to learn the meaning of his dreams. Once he discovers an old curse that he is the center of, Gabriel is no longer an author hunting for ideas, but a tormented man fighting for his very soul.