The only time headlights enter Gray Bayou are to bring more sorrow into the small town that belongs to the dead: the hundreds buried at Bauer Cemetery. Living population: 8. An undertaker and his melancholy son whose only friend is a ghost; two lonely grave diggers; a reverend's mute daughter obsessed with The Phantom of the Opera; a comic-book-fanatic embalmer; a general store owner; and a hermit who's gone missing. Then one winter dusk, the general store's screen door creaks open, signaling the arrival of a stranger.
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