About the book: 2021 / Scary stories told at night are full of gloomy questions. Who built a house a hundred years ago in which ghosts now live? What does he do with them? the thing in the basement if the ghosts don't keep their promises? What are the stakes in their card game? Who is the man named Vinnie, who shares the basement with the thing, hiding from? And what is Detective Doppler hiding? All the answers lie in the past. The secrets here are a tangle of snakes . Pull one by the tail - the fatal weave will unravel... but a poisonous bite cannot be avoided.