Hilary Barraford

Mary's husband gets relocated for work which allows her to move back to her suburban hometown. As her family ties up loose ends back home, Mary moves into their new house all alone and waits. Yet in this idealistic world, something seems very odd. The Ice Cream Man, a symbol of youth and good times, starts killing some of her neighbors. Mary soon learns that the suburbs are not what they seem.

A young couple acquires a life-like android to help around the house, but as they all grow closer, the line between human and robot begins to blur.

A brother and sister are terrorized by what seems to be their late-author mother's most sinister literary creation - The Calling Witch.