Paul Kolker

Ten years after Alton Crow was locked away for a series of unspeakable killings, the city finds itself threatened again on Halloween as an apparent copycat evades police while taking women one by one. The trail leads three detectives to an abandoned insane asylum, only to find they've been lured there by something far more sinister.

A disconnected father and son reunite for a weekend camping trip as a final effort to bond before the son goes off to college, which serves as the beginning of a new understanding of the previous absence in each others' lives.

An immigrant Chinese wife joins her husband in 1950s America after he graduates from the university.