Author: Whinnem, Reade Scott

Old Man Plumley's beloved pet is a razor-toothed wolf, his house is crammed with bloody jars full of dead bugs, he steals the shovels from local graveyards, and perhaps worst of all, he will eat any neighborhood cat he can catch.

Poor Utten has got a little problem because his best friend just dared him to sneak inside Plumley's house to steal a hair off the sleeping ghoul's head! Utten uses his brains and his magical skills to survive the ordeal, but when his magic backfires, he falls sixty years into the past to the doorstep of the horrid Liverstanes Boarding School for Boys.

There he meets young Plumley and proceeds to drag the boy kicking and screaming on a journey across time, complete with high seas adventure aboard Captain Hobart's Traveling Ocean Circus, banishment to the ghost-infested Hush Bogs, and a face-off with a scarecrow whose touch can bring death.

And if they can survive that, they'll find that there's still something else out there waiting for them. Something else out there hunting them...