Susan Engel

On any given day Ben Butley can shrug off everyone and everything with equal ease. But today, the disaster of his proudly misspent life threatens to dwarf his cynically fatalistic non-expectations. Arriving at his office, Butley is informed that his adored Joey is moving in with another man, his estranged wife is re-marrying, and his seemingly untalented colleague has been published ahead of him.

Clancy the Clown and his carnival of misfits arrive in a mid-western town for their annual Halloween festival, with plans to have a killer time.