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A professor of archaeology hurries to uncover a circle of stones before construction begins on the spot, until he begins having nightmares and finds himself catapulted into a menacing world where the edges of reality are not firm.

The Hazzard family becomes increasingly horrified when a genocidal experiment gone wrong results in their son's transformation into a feral and dangerous beast, and the government is determined to cover up the facts. Reprint. PW.