Philadelphia, 1983 – Who is walking the streets of this city, committing crazed, inhuman acts only on victims with very particular things in common? Is it a serial killer, or is the monster stalking the cobbled streets of this ancient city something else, something even older, more insane, more unspeakable than the homicide detective charged with solving the murders can possibly imagine? After all, who could imagine the Bone Worms? In this updated and expanded novel, Keith Minnion re-enters the world first imagined in his story “Up In The Boneyard” from Shivers IV, expanding and extrapolating the original idea to encompass a horror that stretches across hundreds of years and innumerable acts of depravity and death, to land finally in the IN basket of Detective Sergeant Francis Lomax, and in the growing fears of a city populace with no idea of the nightmare that hunts them.