Twelve-year-old Corey McKenson is a big dreamer. He is endowed with an amazing gift of imagination, he sees what others do not notice, and everything seems extraordinary to him. But what’s unusual about a provincial town in the American South of the 1960s? Corey's life is simple and unpretentious: get up early, help his father the milkman, then go to school, hang out with friends in the evening... But one day Corey and his father witness a car accident, and it turns out that the fall of the car from the bridge into the lake was staged to hide crime. Trying to figure out who this mysterious killer is, Corey goes through a difficult journey. His search for truth is a journey into a world where innocence and evil, fear and awe, magic and madness, fantasy and reality collide. Robert McCammon's novel, published in 1991, was deservedly awarded two awards - the Bram Stoker Prize and the World Prize fantasy in the “Best Novel” category. For thirty years now, this book, written in the best traditions of the novel “It” by Stephen King and the stories of Ray Bradbury, continues to be a bestseller in many countries around the world!