Recently divorced and staring down the barrel of moving back in with her parents, Carrot really needs a break. And a place to live. So when her Uncle Earl, owner of the eclectic Wonder Museum, asks her to stay with him in exchange for cataloguing the exhibits, of course she says yes. The Wonder Museum is packed with taxidermy, shrunken heads, and an assortment of Mystery Junk. For Carrot, it's not creepy at all: she grew up with it. What's creepy is the hole that's been knocked in one of the museum walls, and the corridor behind it. There's just no space for a corridor in the museum's thin walls - or the concrete bunker at the end of it, or the strange islands beyond the bunker's doors, or the whispering, unseen things lurking in the willow trees. Carrot has stumbled into a strange and horrifying world, and They are watching her. Strewn among the islands are the remains of Their meals - and Their experiments. And even if she manages to make it back home again, she can't stop calling Them after her...

This Book has Eight young Collage Students. Four Males, Four Females , "But" One The Males Has Two Personality's, The second one he Knew nothing of.. Or Did He? The Male was Mentally and Physically Abused, Mistreated Growing Up By His Step Father and Biological Mother.. He was a Big Tall Muscular Long Haired, Redneck Cowboy- Purdy- Boy Named Duke, But In The Nyght When Duke Sleeps and Dreams, The second Personality Or Is It.. comes out, and He Is Not A He, And He Is Not a She, "It" is an "It" Which "It" creates A Mask From Dukes Nyghtmares in Which.. Still Lives In Dukes Memories as a Child and a Teenager.. A Creature that Devoured Him in His Nyghtmare.. A Face Of Evil, The Secret of This Mask and "It" behind The Mask Is Named CHAOS! The New and Improved Killer Clown From HELL!" Now Vicky Must Stop this Ultimate Evil Before The Entire Campus Falls Prey, Because The question isn't only How Vicky can But also Whether or Not CHAOS! Is going to get them.. Its How and When..?"

Introduction by Greg Bear
Preface by Mark Cotta Vaz
The giant prehistoric gorilla King Kong is one of the most recognized images in our culture. So great is the mighty Kong's hold on the popular imagination that his story-a gripping yarn of man versus nature, coupled with a fantastical update of the Beauty and the Beast legend-has been thrice made into a motion picture (most recently in 2005) and referenced endlessly in every medium, from books to prime-time sitcoms.
Beneath King Kong's cultural significance, however, is a tense and surprisingly tender story. One cannot help but be frightened by Kong's uncontrollable fury, be saddened over the giant's capture, mistreatment, and exploitation by venal showmen, or sympathize with the beast's ill-fated affection for the down-on-her-luck starlet Ann Darrow.
This Modern Library edition of a true colossus among adventure stories is reprinted from the original 1932 novelization of the movie script, and includes a Preface by Mark Cotta Vaz, the preeminent biographer of Merian C. Cooper, producer of the original 1933 classic film.

"From the Trade Paperback edition."