..but come nightfall, he puts on pantyhose, stands in front of his bedroom mirror and weeps. "He fell out of his crib," she tells Skip when he comes home drunk from the paper mill. And stranger things spread their ineffable corruption among the townspeople. Hidden evils, both minor and grave, lurk behind its manicured gardens and friendly inhabitants. Intro: Like any other significant population of human beings, the small Northern California town of Pleasant Valley has its secrets. It's only a matter of time before the stench of the rot afflicting Pleasant Valley is too putrid to be ignored. Little Jimmy Buckton isn't sure why the rotting corpse of his pet cat tasted quite so good slithering its way in pieces down his throat, but he wants more. Sally Callahan was her class's homecoming queen. The strange wooden doll that Principal Henriksen picked up on vacation in Budapest is undeniably ugly, but lately it's
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