“... Slaughter imagined that he saw hockey sticks above the bushes - countless numbers - as they hit the tree trunks. He was paralyzed from fear. He understood that nothing worse would happen in his life, and his sanity left him. Because he saw the bushes part and out came grinning figures heading towards the fairground, and each of them was an ugly, terrible creature - part deer, part man, part wolf, cat, bear and a dozen other creatures - monstrous, a monster emerging from the forest. The human parts were abnormal. There weren't enough noses. Ears and fingers too. They limped on their stumps...” These strange and terrible creatures came to our time from the darkness of centuries, and in a very short time almost completely destroyed the population of a small American town. Only the courage of the main character of the book, policeman Slaughter, and his like-minded people made it possible to avoid disaster...