This month, a chef becomes morbidly fascinated by a repellent new employee. The army is called in on Picklock Lane after a terrifying new discovery. A new drive-in is in town, but the films it shows are out-of-this-world. The master tailor of Hedgeville has a strange new commission for the local sculptor. And Lu makes the lamentable mistake of buying a new scooter on Halloween. Kassi, alone, reaches the edge of the desert. Candace is visited by an ominous red crow. A cowardly lieutenant discovers there are worse horrors than the front line. Nadja tells Robert why her pubic hair is blue. And Art is blown into a strange new dimension.Meanwhile, the Florentine Vampire remembers the vampire who bit him. And finally, Ted gets on with the job.