“...Slaughter imagined seeing hockey sticks over the bushescountless numbersknocking on tree trunks. Out of fear, he became paralyzed.... He knew that there would be nothing more terrible in his life, and reason left him. Because he saw , How the bushes moved , And out of them came the shrouded figures. heading to the fairground, And every one of them was ugly. Scary Creature - Partly Deer , Partly human , Partly wolf, cat, a bear and a dozen other creatures - monstrous, A monster from the forest[edit] Human parts were abnormal. Missing noses. Ears and fingers, too.... These strange and terrible creatures came into our time from the darkness of centuries, and in a very short time almost completely destroyed the population of a small American town. Only the courage of the main character of the book of police officer Slaughter and his associates allowed to avoid disaster.