Ewerton: a decaying small town, its glory days many

years gone-- if they ever existed.... Few residents

know that these times were built on corruption and

lies. that the town was founded on evil. Palmer

Winston glimpsed the eerie truth in a mysterious

woman and spent his last fifty years trying to

recapture it. t lis oldest friend. Palmer Nemmitz.

saw her too--it turned him sour and mean. as his

humanity withered within him.

The Water Carnival: a faded memory of imagined

better times. This year will be the most memorable

in Ewerton history. This year the South-State

Enterprises Carnival outlawed in Ewerton since

1923. returns. The crooked games, the mentalist.

the freak show. And the true horror, disguised by a

beautiful face and a Veronica Lake waterfall of

caramel-blond hair. a thing born of corruption.

The Ewerton High ten-year reunion: when she will

return to her hometown and give birth to a terror

from which there can be no escape