Professor James Lowry doesn't believe in ghosts, the supernatural, the surreal, or any type of dark fantasy.

Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn't remember the last four hours of his life.

Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing - slightly at first, then faster and more frighteningly each time he tries to remember.

Lowry is pursued by a dark, secret evil that is turning his whole world against him while it whispers a his forgotten scary story from the shadows: If you find your hat you'll find your four hours.

If you find your four hours then you will die...Fear turns to terror... "A true scare!" -Ray Bradbury "What I'm writing is really psychological fantasies, on the order of L.

Ron Hubbard's Fear . Without Fear , I would never have come up with what I do." -Philip K.

Dick