In the moonlight, Jacob glimpses one of the monsters from his grandfather’s stories, but no one else sees it. 3, 1940, on the other side of the old man’s grave. He has deep chest wounds, but before he dies, he gives Jacob a cryptic message. After a brief search, Jacob finds Abe dying in the woods behind his house. Jacob’s friend Ricky drives him to his grandfather’s house, only to find it ransacked and his grandfather missing. He is distraught, certain the monsters are after him. Jacob’s father hides the key to Abe’s gun cabinet to keep him from hurting himself or someone else. As Abe enters this second childhood, the monsters in his stories become a very real terror to him. Jacob is in high school when Abe begins to lose his mental faculty. When Jacob finally challenges his grandfather about the veracity of them, Abe never mentions them again. As he grows older, Jacob becomes skeptical of his grandfather’s stories, even though Abe shows him a cigar box full of old photos to prove he is telling the truth. One boy is invisible, and another has a swarm of bees living inside him. They are populated with flesh-eating monsters, a hawk that smokes a pipe and children who have peculiar abilities - they levitate, lift heavy boulders with ease or eat using a mouth in the back of their heads. A World War II veteran and Jewish refugee, Abe loves nothing better than to tell his grandson Jacob stories about his childhood.
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