The story begins with Ash Williams on a normal day at work in S-Mart, until three people arrive to seek Ash's help. They tell them that while at a comic convention, they spotted a copy of The Necronomicon, and they realized the potential threat that the book could cause, and immediately left to find Ash because comic books about his battles against the Army of Darkness made him out to be an epic hero. After some persuasion from the girl of the group (and a fight with a Deadite in the parking lot), Ash decides to help the group. They head to where the group first saw the Necronomicon, in the hands of someone dressed like a wizard or sorcerer standing by a lake surrounded by skeletons, but as they tell the story, Ash is grabbed by the skeletons and dragged underwater into a hideout in the se