Gradually putting aside their personal miseries, a trio of despised students from dreadful Madame Gertrude’s School for Girls-Adelaide, keen of senses and wolfish of features tough-talking, super strong Maggie and shy Beatrice, talker to ghosts and daughter of itinerant celebrity morticians-join forces with Steffen, neglected son of a school cook, to winkle out the ugly connections between these goings-on. At the same time, a hungry little carousel has appeared in the local woods, a seemingly friendly candy man has opened a kiosk in town and a tall, sinister figure with obviously evil intentions has taken to slipping in and out of view. ‘Cuz of the zombies”) is thickening even further as people have begun to mysteriously go missing. The pall of fear and suspicion that hangs over Pernicious Valley in the wake of a magical storm 12 years before (“My grandfather says that’s why they cremate people now. Delectably horrific doings in a cursed small town make reluctant allies of four bullied children.
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