The phrase I coined for houses that just Aren’t Right is “demented domiciles”. In Kevin Lucia’s series about Clifton Heights, the demented domicile is the entire town. Is it the soil itself that is haunted? Perhaps. In this series of stories, October curses this small American town further by lessening the veil between the living and the dead and by welcoming pranks and costumes on Halloween. Anything can happen…and does. Demented Americana, indeed, whether the generic Woolworth’s-style corner store might help…or hurt.