The story begins with Abby Chase rescuing archaeologist Theodore Kage, who had been studying a copy of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, but the book was taken from him. Theodore shows Abby he had ripped a page of spells out from the book before it was taken, and they can use it to find the book itself. Kage is killed during their escape, but Abby gets away only to find the blood-inked page now has rearranged the text into an image, an image of Ash Williams. After returning to the present from 1300 AD, Ash has been having a problem, he sees Deadites everywhere. His (now) ex-girlfriend, the mailman, even Girl Scouts appear to be the soul hungry monsters, but they are not really Deadites. After beating up a crowd of normal people on the street, Ash is arrested. The Danger Girl Team discovers that