Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knowseverything about every film ever made. Shes also dead and waiting in theRosebud Theater fo... » 

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knowseverything about every film ever made. Shes also dead and waiting in theRosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon on an afternoon in 1945 . . . Arthur Roth isa lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isnt easy tomake friends when youre the only inflatable boy in town . . . Francis isunhappy. Francis was human once but that was then. Now hes an eightfoottalllocust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing . . .John Finney is locked in a basement thats stained with the blood of half adozen murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone longsince disconnected but which rings at night with calls from the dead . . . Thepast isnt dead. It isnt even past . . . «