<p> Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . </p> <p> Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . </p> <p> John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead. . . . </p> <p> Nolan knows but can never tell what <i>really</i> happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . . </p> <p> <i>The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . .</i> </p>