Having loved Bradbury's "Something Wicked..." I was eager for a story in a similar vein (no pun intended). What I got instead was 400 pages of flat characters wandering about an anonymous town doing stupid things. Laymon even chickened out on the ending. If you're an adolescent with an overactive libido that needs release, go for it, but if you want plot, suspense, or characters to care about, read something else.