Note: Originally appeared as a three part serial online. Billed as "a special Odd Thomas adventure". Some sources refer to this work as a "novella", but the mass market paperback version is almost 300 pages long.

Synopsis: A young man who can see ghosts, and has other supernatural powers, encounters a motel/diner/gas station run by a family which has been under sadistic mental control of a shadowy entity for several years.