In THE GREAT SWEET BLISS STINK-OFF, Freddy-Eddy and his new buddy, Zoltra, won the quixotic seaside town's annual stink-hunting contest. Now the season of sunhats, scraped knees, sunburns, and homemade strawberry ice-cream has drifted away like a sand-castle in the air. The midsummer solstice has peaked. The dog days have quit barking and Zoltra has moved to Great Sweet Bliss ... just in time to share her first Halloween with her freckle-faced friend. It's not an ordinary sugar-crazed scavenging soiree. It is a Golden Moon Halloween, a rare occurrence. The scientist-magician-to-be and the boy who thinks of being a professional kite when he grows up are DARED to trick-or-treat at the tumbledown house out on Crow's Nest Crag Island ... a house squatting like a bloated toad at the end of Long Pier - a hungry house. It is a night speckled with spectacle'd spectres, and greedy hobgoblins howling for chocolate. There is a prowling, growling panther slinking through the shadows ... and Freddy-Eddy fears he might be the murderous, marauding mouser's next midnight meal. He is, after all, dressed like a..."