- When Nower County veterinarian E.J. Hamilton rescues two little girls from the savage attack of a rabid Great Pyrenees, the beast almost rips his leg off. But worse than the injury is the fact that without the vaccine, E.J. will die of rabies within a week. Unfortunately, he can't get to the hospital because a shimmering mirage called the Jabberwock has locked everyone inside the county borders. With E.J.'s rabies-clock ticking, childhood friends Charlie, Sam, and Malachi are desperate to solve the mystery of the Jabberwock. Is it somehow connected to what happened to Gideon? Maybe it isn't just a ghost story that every man, woman, and child in that little town in Fearsome Hollow vanished into a mist one day exactly one hundred years ago? The "vanishing" has started happening again - residents of Nower are disappearing and the houses they lived in age a century overnight. If the Jabberwock is gobbling people up, how long before Nower becomes a ghost town?