A
group of suburban youths returning from a Monsters of Hip Hop concert
(headlined by Prosper Johnson) become stranded in an abandoned house
in the Philadelphia ghetto and hunted by subterranean mutants. The
kids were present at a Ghost Walk in LeHorn’s Hollow the previous
Halloween, but it was closed down after several people were killed
inside, before the kids could get in. Leo once lived with the Graco
family for two weeks; the father, Timothy, wrote comic books. One of
the mutants wears a shirt with the slogan I GOT CRABS IN
PHILLIPSPORT, MAINE, and another wears a ball cap with the Globe
Package Service logo. One of the mutants, Scug, swears to Ob. Prosper
Johnson is a minor, but important, character in Keene’s mythos,
figuring most prominently (so far) in his story “Slouching in
Bethlehem.” The events behind the massacre at the Ghost Walk are
told in Keene’s novel
Ghost
Walk.
Timothy Graco is the main character of Keene’s novel Ghoul.
Phillipsport, Maine, first appeared in Mark Williams and J. F.
Gonzalez’s novel Clickers;
that series (the latter books being cowritten between Gonzalez and
Keene) takes place in an alternate universe, but there must be a
version of Phillipsport in the CU. Globe Package Service appears in
several Keene works, including “Scratch” and
Kill
Whitey,
and is a branch of the Globe Corporation. Ob is one of the Thirteen,
and is the main villain of Keene’s The
Rising
series.
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