The Trouble in Sky Notch all started when that picture-painter Crispin came to town. Such a nice fellow, fitted in well. Doc invited him to dinner; Slowly Kimber square-danced with him. And he even got Captain Kimber to let him come watch a clan baptism ritual up in the hills! Gander Eye Gentry, who had his eye on Slowly, had his eye on Crispin too. Yet even he never linked Crispin with the creature he'd glimpsed in the hills - the thing that left a trail of burnt grass in its wake. And Crispin was an important part of the terror when the most down-to-earth of villages was menaced by something Unearthly...