Build on land called "The Place of Silent Spirits", Silent Hill was first established as penal colony in the 1800s with the completion of Brookhaven Hospital and Toluca Prison. Epidemic and missing persons plagued the city throughout it's reinventions, but speculations of these were just that, and it wasn't until the sinking of the Little Baroness in the early 1900s that these speculations grew, particularly to do with The Order, a group of cultists at the core of the town's struggle, including those of travelers lost to the town in 2013.
From various locations and various backgrounds, all were drawn to the town by The Order in an effort to see their ends met, sinking them into a Hell unimaginable and struggles inhuman in a fight for their lives. Against all odds, they survived, escaping Silent Hill and Shepherd's Glen with lives intact and heads full of horrors they hope to leave behind in anticipation of returning to normal lives.
The horrors resurfaced again in 2015. Ghostly faces in mirrors and facades of monsters thought left behind, nightmares of drowning, asphyxiation, being burned and buried alive, and an ever-clenching paranoia suggested that Silent Hill wasn't done with them yet, and despite the answers they received and plots they unwound, it seems it still isn't.
Three years after, those drawn into the foggy Hell of Silent Hill and Shepherd's Glen have all moved on with their lives without so much as a hint of The Order following them. The memories remain, the scars and haunts, perhaps even the paranoia and fear there is trouble around the corner, but it has remained quiet—until now. Postmarked with no return address, suspicious packages have been showing up at the homes and offices, each containing what appears to be a leather-bound book. Within its pages are the individual histories of those chosen during their time in Silent Hill, details that many wouldn't know, and to read them is to be pulled right back into the nightmare--right back into Silent Hill.