Desiccation

Perched on the clifftops at Helmstone-by-sea, British boarding school Toffdene exists in splendid isolation, pretending the Swinging Sixties aren't happening outside its walls.

Janet is a science scholarship girl who believes that all paranormal phenomena have a rational explanation, until she meets a hippie pixie who lives in a dimensional transcendental toadstool.

Alien bodysnatching crustaceans lurk in the dark of the old tunnel leading from the playing fields down to the beach, and they will stop at nothing to survive. Soon the teachers and pupils develop a hive mind determined to ensnare Janet in its collective consciousness.

The hippie pixie might have cured Janet's acne with a single kiss, but his claim that he can fix what's wrong with everyone else by mending an interdimensional rift is quite another matter.