A novel.Edward Hogg, a thirteen year old boy in 1950 Brooklyn, discovers that he's being accessed by the shifting, malicious, imbecilic world of the unsuccessfully dead. He has a crazed enemy in the fifteen year old son of Annabella Parenti, the corrupt local holder-of-seances, and when he agrees to work for Annabella, hoping to contact his recently dead mother, hell breaks loose.Fast, elegiac, brutal and haunted.