"There was apparently a limit to pleasant decrepitude beyond which complete and utter devastation licked its frothing chops." Joy Wells is concerned about the increasingly rundown appearance of Spooking. She decides to spearhead a drive to revamp the town as the home and workplace of her favorite author, E. A. Peugot, attracting tourists and saving the town. The author himself vanished under mysterious circumstances after writing many stories featuring creatures and monsters, festering bogs, sprawling cemeteries, menacing mansions, and a dreadful asylum. All had counterparts in Spooking, and Joy believed her town was, in fact, the setting for his tales of terror. Meanwhile, the mayor's assistant, Mr. Octavio Phipps, has set his sinister sights on the Spooking Mental Asylum. He wants to turn it into a luxury spa. He causes his cousin, Felix, to be committed there to discover its secrets. Would Joy have to tell her friend Polly's parents "that foul creatures from the pages of classic horror fiction had risen out of the earth, snatching their daughter as part of their evil bounty"?
"Endurance of risk and the delight of rewards was what life was all about."
Horror
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