Left by his single mother, a young arsonist and his estranged grandfather defend the widower's property from inhuman creatures living beneath the surrounding hills.
In a developing eastern-European nation-state, an aspiring revolutionary plots to kill the Archduke in order to regain her status within a burgeoning political movement.
Meanwhile, the well-meaning Archduke struggles to manage his desire to be a good family man, against his relegation to the role of a political puppet by his own noble class.
The Pensing Twins, occult-scholar Ezekiel and his pragmatic sister Illuminora, take their ghost channeling act from the city to the new frontier.
Arriving in the town of Goldwater, they find a bustling hub booming with life at the edge of the great timberland. But its people tell a different story, haunted by a primordial presence, disturbed from its slumber beneath the mountain wilds.
With bodies piling up and the populace in terror, the town lawmen scramble to restore order. While a band of outlaws sees an opportunity to profit from the chaos, leaving the people to defend for themselves.
Caught in the middle, Zeke and Nora Pensing must dodge conscription into the town militia, perform seances for the town's ruling class, and confront the Marrow Country Devil himself.
Nelly and young Sigmund are visited in the night by a magical young boy offering eternal youth. Weighed against Sigmund's childhood narcolepsy, leaving the boy to sleep his youth away, Nelly agrees to follow the magical Peter Pan to the world of Neverland.
But not all is well in the island paradise, as Nelly soon finds herself in a brave new world of monstrous creatures and the forever young captives they keep bound to the lost land. Joining with the exiled Lost Boys, Nelly fights to rescue her brother and escape the great unending storm encircling them.