On July 6th, 1989, Isaac Ruhdel, an eccentric, recluse, multi-millionaire, was reportedly killed by an aberrant lightning bolt during a Nor'easter. He willed all of his liquid assets and properties to a robustly handsome, young chemist, named Chris A. Laude. Well all but one property-Ruhdel's home-a mansion at 55 King Street, which, for the next ten years, went unclaimed, and fell into such a state of disrepair, that the Weehawken City Council moved to have the dwelling (locally known as "Weehawken's Haunted House") demolished. During the demolition, 25 skeletons-all of young men between the ages of 12 and 18-were discovered. According to the coroner, Doctor C. Malcolm Gibbs, some had been there only a few months; others for the better part of a decade. Michael Kasper, the inarguably handsome, local, TV news reporter and anchorman for Channel 12, WPIC, would begin his 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts tonight, December 20th, 1999 -ironically during the height of the festive Christmas season-with these unanswered questions: Was the house at 55 King Street really haunted? How could 25 young men disappear and go unnoticed from the community? Was this the work of a serial killer? Why only young male adolescents and teenagers? Were the victims possibly gay? Was the Killer possibly gay...Or were these hate crimes? Michael Kasper would conclude his TV newscast thusly: "Do we have a devious, dangerous, pervert, mass-murderer in our midst?" To come up with answers to these questions, Michael enlists the aide of his effortlessly sexy partner of 14 years, Allen Deur-Kasper ("Baby Bear")-and their canine companions: Spot, Michael's Dalmatian, with an inflated sense of his place in the universe; and Spotless, Allen's Westie, who is simply "always too exhausted" to care. Because of Michael's position as an investigative reporter, and Allen's position as Chief Research Librarian at the Weehawken Free Public Library, they are a perfect complement to the accompanying posse of colorful, multi-dimensional characters, who join the investigation and propel this rousing tale: Detective Dan J. Becky, whose incessant appetite for the truth is only exceeded by his appetite for food; Chief Librarian Clara Haupt, Allen's brilliant, quasi-alcoholic, (probably lesbian), uber-liberal boss; Maxwell Bane from Ukraine, an expert on weirwolves and wolfsbane; Rupram Chakraborty, the Hindu Yoga master; Sason Tanof, the Bengal Tiger; Little Terry Bridgedale, the 12 year old abductee, who's only just discovered how to make "white stuff;" Frank DeCarpo, Weehawken Turtles star shortstop, who escapes to tell the tale of his abduction; Old Mr. Sal DeRauchi, driver of the dung wagon at the zoo; and even the local butcher..."You can't beat Warfield's Meat " They (along with the good citizens of Weehawken, the Mayor, the Police Chief, and the Fire Chief) encounter and confront: demonic possession, reincarnation, murder, vampirism, criminal abductions, poisonous monkshood, death by exsanguination, exhumations, identities obscured by anagrams, and a dungeon jail-hidden beneath an extravagant display of wealth and opulence It's a page-turning tale of the supernatural, with a suspenseful build-up to a mysterious ending.