A 5,000-year-old warlock gets fired from his side-hustle as a stage magician at a South Beach strip club-and takes it personally. Henry David Thoreau discovers a sinister humanoid fungus buried under his bean field. A well-meaning long-haul trucker picks up an underage drifter at a Texas diner, not realizing he's the one in danger. After a world-ending plague, a survivor discovers a strangely well-maintained house populated by animate paper butterflies...