It is the fall of 1994, and something old and hungry has woken up in the small milltown of Belford, New York. Ghosts and campfire stories walk in the cold mist. Some people disappear into that mist; others are found dead – some torn apart, some unmarked. When the people of Belford begin to change, it is left to a small group of teenage defenders to make their stand.
A young man believes his dreams are doomed, until an old man who let his own dreams die long ago tells him a story of young love and teenage dreams and rock and roll magic. A story about being young and being brave, and the girl who taught him how to be both.
Sarah Brannigan’s life is falling apart at the age of 45. Her fairy tale marriage has ended, her career is in a downward spiral, and she’s living in a tiny room in an apartment that she shares with five people. To escape, she walks the City, and one day she walks into a dream on the Coney Island boardwalk.
But the problem with dreams is that when you’re in them, you’re dangerously close to nightmare…
The Brennans are an Irish-American family much like any other: everyone just working for a living, whether that means serving their country or moving to the City far from home. The problem is that their jobs keep bringing them in contact with the weird an uncanny. But what the heck, they’re Irish. The weird and uncanny is in their blood.