About Junkman
**Logline:**
A haunted Halloween costume forces a solitary bus driver to confront his traumatic past and a terrifying family secret that threatens to unravel his reality.
**Book Blurb:**
When forty-two-year-old bus driver Mark Devold inherits his late grandfather’s home in rural Galesburg, Illinois, he’s forced to revisit painful memories of his childhood and the brutal, unspeakable crime for which his uncle Tony has been sentenced to life in prison. With his mother Audrey in an assisted living facility and his sister Ann living abroad, Mark lives a solitary life and struggles with alcoholism while attempting to maintain a rekindled relationship with his high school girlfriend, Cory. Then Mark discovers a homemade Halloween costume among the old house’s many effects—a grotesque body cast that calls to mind memories of trick-or-treating and days long past. At first, the thing appears to be little more than a creepy curiosity, but soon, Mark discovers that it seems to exert a strange influence over everything around it: his house, his family, and even his memories. As reality and hallucinatory fantasy become harder to separate, Mark discovers a terrifying secret about the costume—a secret that could cost him everyone he loves.
