On a bitterly cold day in January, Gus Breach, the Chief of Police, his three deputies, and Frank Lewis, the town mortician, have no idea that the discovery of a strangely dressed, headless and bloodless corpse is about to plunge them and the residents of Kulpsville, Pennsylvania, into a horror that human reckoning says cannot exist. A desecrated grave, strange markings in the snow and signs of a violent struggle, all push Breach past the limit. A...