Sammy O'Gorman is a kid with imagination issues who thinks that getting through the seventh grade is hard enough already. But when Edgar Willoughby - by far the strangest boy in school - starts following Sammy around and telling him about ancient curses and inevitable death matches, Sammy's life starts to get more complicated than he could have imagined. Normally Edgar is someone Sammy would totally blow off. But when the ghost of a young boy begins to appear and a horribly disfigured creature starts prowling the neighborhood, Sammy is drawn grudgingly into the mystery surrounding Edgar's...