Furnace

"Alchemy: the summoning and controlling of demons. Those who cross the alchemist are often disposed of. The easiest way to do this? Cast the runes: strips of flesh from the dried skin of a child sacrifice, inscribed with the time the victim has yet to live.... When trucker Josh Spiller pulls into the small town of Furnace, Virginia, all he wants is a decent meal before getting back on the road. Instead he witnesses a baby's violent death, and he can't convince the sheriff that the well-dressed woman he saw at the scene is responsible. Shaken by the experience, Josh flees Furnace. But the horror continues as he begins to feel burning eyes watching his every move. As Josh's grip on what's real and what's imagined starts to falter, he makes a bizarre discovery -- someone has slipped him a strip of what appears to be parchment, inscribed with a disturbing message: "five days alive permitted.