A dead but buxom blonde with a bad past and a railroad spike head decoration leads Jack Sheet down the primrose path to personal hell and a couple of near death experiences. Along the way he and Fatback Banion connive to spike the ambitions of corrupt movers and shakers who want to bilk an entire state and whose strings are pulled by a sick, slick, deadly and surprise puppet master.

Jack drops out of college and miraculously lands a job on the state's leading newspaper. He comes under the wing of a grizzled newsman vet, Lee Robb, who trains him tough and fires him up to find a boffo career-building story early. Jack puts himself in a 1950's Insane Asylum to check out the suspicious death of an alcoholic named Patrick Francis Moran. Jack jumps the gun and circumvents his cautious managing editor and his safety net gets ripped. What's a boy to do when all help fails and he's stranded with a false identity, a shady purpose and a ward full of violent men and convict...

A headless corpse stuffed in an unoccupied University Hospital room does not advertise good medical care for the institution. The "Courier Gazette" assigns Jack Sheet to write the story. Soon a series of torsos with alternating heads start appearing with frightening rapidity. Jack is forced to go New Age on this one and unwillingly visits the Land of Weird. Even he can't believe what he finds or how he finds it. This one will mess with your head enough to give you nightmares.

Young Malcolm Ward's father dies and he is betrayed into Mid-State Hospital by a cruel and greedy uncle. Malcolm is imprisoned on the Acute Violent and Forensic Ward where he discovers both art and the art of survival. Later, in the general hospital population, he fights to save a pretty young lady patient in his group therapy from a psychotic superintendent. This activates a system already clearly out to kill him. After he is blitzed by a series of unneeded shock treatments and sent to a back ward to die, he slowly recovers by painting and crafting sculpture. He falls in love with a devoted...

A dead but buxom blonde with a bad past and a railroad spike head decoration leads Jack Sheet down the primrose path to personal hell and a couple of near death experiences. Along the way he and Fatback Banion connive to spike the ambitions of corrupt movers and shakers who want to bilk an entire state and whose strings are pulled by a sick, slick, deadly and surprise puppet master.

Jack drops out of college and miraculously lands a job on the state's leading newspaper. He comes under the wing of a grizzled newsman vet, Lee Robb, who trains him tough and fires him up to find a boffo career-building story early. Jack puts himself in a 1950's Insane Asylum to check out the suspicious death of an alcoholic named Patrick Francis Moran. Jack jumps the gun and circumvents his cautious managing editor and his safety net gets ripped. What's a boy to do when all help fails and he's stranded with a false identity, a shady purpose and a ward full of violent men and convict...

A headless corpse stuffed in an unoccupied University Hospital room does not advertise good medical care for the institution. The

Young Malcolm Ward's father dies and he is betrayed into Mid-State Hospital by a cruel and greedy uncle. Malcolm is imprisoned on the Acute Violent and Forensic Ward where he discovers both art and the art of survival. Later, in the general hospital population, he fights to save a pretty young lady patient in his group therapy from a psychotic superintendent. This activates a system already clearly out to kill him. After he is blitzed by a series of unneeded shock treatments and sent to a back ward to die, he slowly recovers by painting and crafting sculpture. He falls in love with a devoted...