Twelve-year-old Corey McKenson is a big daydreamer. He has an amazing gift of imagination: he sees what others don’t notice, and everything seems extraordinary to him. But what could be unusual in a backwater town in the American South in the 1960s? Corey’s life is simple and straightforward: get up early, help his milkman father, then go to school, and in the evening walk with friends… But one day Corey and his father witness a car accident—and it turns out the car falling off the bridge into a lake was staged to cover up a crime. Trying to figure out who this mysterious killer is, Corey goes through a difficult path. His search for the truth is a journey into a world where innocence and evil collide, fear and awe, magic and madness, fantasy and reality. Robert McCammon’s novel, published in 1991, rightfully received two awards at once—the Bram Stoker Prize and the World Fantasy Award in the category “Best Novel.” For thirty years, this book, written in the best traditions of Stephen King’s novel “It” and Ray Bradbury’s stories, has continued to be a bestseller in many countries around the world! For more interesting facts about the author’s work, read in